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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Twinfan on March 21, 2011, 11:33:45 AM
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Check these articles for the details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-12782616
http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/?Page=5480%7CAppeal%3A+Stolen+Vintage+Guitars
I wonder if it's related to this court case? :wink:
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/father_and_son_guitar_theft_charges_1_3017049
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I think you are right there Dave.
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Download the linked file with the images from the BBC page, I think I may have been in one of those shops...
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Me too mate!
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I was going to reply (as a joke) "I bet that's where Music Ground have been getting their stock.." - sounds like was too close to the truth!
Oops
:D
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this is quite shocking! i might recognise a couple of those strats from their shop, but then again its hard to be sure.
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Hate guitar burglers!! Lets get the firewood together, tonight special Charyou bonfire!!!!
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Regarding the theft of the 157 guitars from Italy - how could anyone seriously expect to get away with that? It's not like the owner will just shrug his/her shoulders and say oh well, there goes my entire vintage guitar collection. The guitars were always going to end up getting traced through the internet.
The big problem is that the new "owners" will lose the guitars (when they're traced) as legally they don't own the instruments. Then they have to bring a civil case against whoever sold the stolen kit. All very messy and unpleasant.
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Also - you would think that someone offloading so much through one outlet would raise a few 'questions'...
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if it is music ground which it certainly does look like the vintage section in the now closed leeds one
all they had up there was vintage stuff
i think the lowest priced guitar whilst not vintage was a gibson explorer voodoo that was £1699 everything else was £2k+
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if it is music ground which it certainly does look like the vintage section in the now closed leeds one
all they had up there was vintage stuff
i think the lowest priced guitar whilst not vintage was a gibson explorer voodoo that was £1699 everything else was £2k+
they had a nice exp before it went bouncing down the stairs
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In related news my facebook has been going daft with updates today about a thief being traced. A guy had nicked a guitar from a gig and after some cctv and pleading for help he was found and transpired to be a guy from another band. Nice chap.
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if it is music ground which it certainly does look like the vintage section in the now closed leeds one
all they had up there was vintage stuff
i think the lowest priced guitar whilst not vintage was a gibson explorer voodoo that was £1699 everything else was £2k+
they had a nice exp before it went bouncing down the stairs
the blue one?
that was in the normal downstairs section for poor people
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Hate guitar burglers!! Lets get the firewood together, tonight special Charyou bonfire!!!!
Dark Tower mayhap?
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In related news my facebook has been going daft with updates today about a thief being traced. A guy had nicked a guitar from a gig and after some cctv and pleading for help he was found and transpired to be a guy from another band. Nice chap.
I'm really glad they caught whoever it was. Total lowlife. I was always very very cautious about leaving my guitars unattended when I was gigging. Luckily I never had anything happen to them but it was a constant worry.
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In related news my facebook has been going daft with updates today about a thief being traced. A guy had nicked a guitar from a gig and after some cctv and pleading for help he was found and transpired to be a guy from another band. Nice chap.
Disgusting - no honour amongst musicians?
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^ I was thinking that when I read it yesterday...
Years ago, I don't remember sh1t like that happening. You'd end up losing leads, straps, etc... or even gaining them sometimes... but that was because we were all hopeless disorganised nurks. I even recall a keyboard player losing a mini-moog, pinched by some passer-by when he thought leaving it unattended in the back of the van, with the doors open, during the get out, was a good idea...
But a musician walking off with another musician's instrument... that's pretty sick :(
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Wasn't there a recent story about some famous 59 LP Standard that had been allegedly pinched many years previously?
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Yep - Stripe, owned by Gary Moore, is Ronnie Montrose's old '59 that was stolen in the 70s.
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Hate guitar burglers!! Lets get the firewood together, tonight special Charyou bonfire!!!!
Dark Tower mayhap?
Yep, read it in portuguese, so may have written it wrongly :)
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I wonder if the former owner knows that they are selling this?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1988-Gibson-Les-Paul-Standard-Ex-Slash-Guns-n-Roses-/260759354356?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cb677fbf4
:-)
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Now on Crimewatch :o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/crimewatch/appeals/2011/03/stolen_vintage_guitars.shtml
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Now on Crimewatch :o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/crimewatch/appeals/2011/03/stolen_vintage_guitars.shtml
I saw that last night.
1 of the guitars stolen was a late 90s USA Strat with a Floyd Rose and HSS that the owner in Italy had had designed for him and was 1 of only 150 made. It was valued at £30k, which I found a bit weird considering the values of all the other more vintage guitars.
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Was probably 30K Lire....
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that strat with the floyd is +30K because of the situation surrounding its existence. Like many instruments of worth, it has a back story.