Guthrie Govan and band have equipment stolen in Rome

Rented Mule

Please pass this out to any musician friends that you may have around Europe. This was passed on this morning from Dweezil Zappa via his website. Guthrie Govan and his band had their van robbed while on tour in Rome yesterday.

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An appeal for your help, after a recent van break-in in Rome :-(

The following isn't exactly a fun read, but it would be hugely appreciated if y'all could have a quick look through the following: we need your help!

I've just finished a tour of Italy with Dave Kilminster, Seth Govan and Pete Riley. Unfortunately, someone broke into our tour van in Rome, during the afternoon of Dec 17th, and stole pretty much the entire contents.

This sucks on a number of levels: not only did the theft make it very difficult for us to play the remainder of the shows we had booked on our Italian tour, but also we're now faced with the prospect of having to find some way of replacing a lot of equipment - both rental gear and personal stuff.

Some of the stolen gear - particularly Seth's Warwick bass, which he's played almost exclusively for the last 22 years or so - also has considerable sentimental value, as you can doubtless imagine.

The Italian police didn't seem to think there was anything they could do about this situation, so... we're reaching out to you, the denizens of the internet, in the hope that maybe someone out there can help us to retrieve at least something.
Please have at least a quick look through the following list, and report any suspicious sightings: our only real hope of recovering this stuff lies in the fact that some of it is fairly distinctive/unusual, so in theory it should be hard to sell and easy to spot, if you know what to look for...

If you can think of any website or forum where it might be helpful to post this stuff, please, please copy/paste the following as you see fit!

(NB - although the theft took place in Italy, it seems feasible that the people responsible might instinctively head for the border of some nearby country and try to sell our gear there...?)

Anyhow... here's a list of what was taken. I've left out the various cables/power supplies etc, but needless to say we lost a lot of that stuff, too...

SETH'S BASS GEAR
1989 Warwick Streamer bass, natural finish.
(Distinguishing features: smaller replacement Schaller tuners; screw for lower strap button replaced with a Philips style screw; thumb-sized indentation above the "P-Bass" pickup; long dark stripe/imperfection in the wood on the back of the bass, above the through-neck; small knot in the wood near the top of the inside upper horn...)

SWR SM900 head, serial # 4400106010 SWR Goliath 4x10 speaker cabinet (4 Ohm) serial # 4410500410
Boss OC-2 octave pedal, Boss TU-2 tuner, Boss power supply, various cables.

PETE'S DRUM GEAR
1x left-handed Drum Workshop DW 5000 double kick drum pedal.

DAVE AND GUTHRIE'S GUITAR GEAR
2x Brunetti Mercury heads, serial numbers ME10550 and ME10650 (in flight cases); 2x Brunetti 4x12 cabinets (in flight cases).
DK's pedals: Boss Chorus Ensemble; Boss TU-2 tuner; Boss digital reverb; Xotic Effects "EP" Booster; Suhr Riot distortion; Dunlop "Van Halen" signature wah; Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal.
GG's pedals:(mounted in a distinctively crappy-looking "tea tray" pedalboard): Xotic Effects "EP" Booster; RetroSonic "Vintage Vibes" chorus; tc electronics Flashback delay; tc electronics Polytune tuner; Guyatone WR-3 envelope filter; Dunlop "Jerry Cantrell" signature wah; Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal.

OTHER
1x unique bag with the emblem "Roger Waters - The Wall"; Various camcorder tapes containing yet-to-be-edited footage from a professionally filmed 3-camera shoot - for what was intended to be a live DVD of a gig we played at Lapsus, Torino :-(

Well... profuse thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help us out with any of this!
Cheers,
GG (and the band)

seachto7

I speak Italian, can understand it, so might be able to check the Italian forums, if there are any. PM me if I can be of any help....

Demeyes

I saw this on another forum. They seemed to lose a lot but at least not too many guitars were taken. The tapes of the concert footage is a real blow though.

-=al=-

Only seen GG few weeks ago, this sucks balls!

kevin65

Instrument thieves should be tarred and feathered, using very very hot tar...