STOLEN GUITARS - GREAT NEWS:
Back in January of 2010 we reported that there was a break in at one of BRMC's storage lockers and all of Michel Been's vintage guitars and keep-sakes were stolen. We are thrilled to report that over a year later, almost all the stolen items have been recovered!
A fan of BRMC and The Call noticed one of the guitars for sale on eBay that turned out to be Michael's signature Ampeg Fretless Bass and through that information and with the aid of the LAPD and some other helpful sources, all the stolen instruments have been returned and the prime suspect apprehended.
The band would like to thank everyone out there that helped scour the internet and spread the word of this theft and are so appreciative that these items have made it home.
If it hadn't been for all of you, these instruments would've probably been lost forever.
AAAH! - A happy ending, just what this blog needs...
an old acquaintance of mine from portland has been playing guitar on tour with them, so i went to their show in seattle a few years ago. they were touring in support of howl, and the main guy had a rack of like 8 to 10 expensive gibsons of various models and i just thought "really?" i mean, he kept changing guitars and you could hardly tell the difference between most of them. it just seemed so over-the-top and unnecessary. after all the punkish bluster of their first record, everything on that tour just sounded too slow and faux-folky and i really couldn't get into it. i tried to wait after the show to see my friend, but it was a work night and i wasn't going to stay up drinking all night, so headed home after like a half hour or so. If you've seen the documentary "Dig!" you've seen this guy. He and one of his former band mates are in quite a few scenes in the movie. I tried to record them back in ?94-95? in their basement in Portland when they were performing as Transparent Thing. I accidentally left the safety switch on and didn't get any of the performance on tape. DOH! That was the end of my recording engineer career in Portland! HA!
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