help! lost gear

[serialninja]

my bassist's bass guitar has disappeared. we suspect someone might have helped themselves to it because we keep most of our equipment at the practise studio that we use (Velvet Joint; it's a good studio with great staff, but maybe there are some dubious people who jam there, i dunno) and i trust that the staff there didn't take it.

anyway, just an appeal to everyone out there to keep an eye out for this bass. it's a vintage Ibaneze MIJ Blazer bass. the Blazers were made roughly from 1980 to 1981. it looks like a Roadstar II if you know what bodyshape that looks like. it's got a maple fretboard with a dark wine-red transparent finish. it looks almost black from afar, a deep purpleish-red closer up, with the wood grain showing. white pickguard with the truss-rod adjustment bit at the neck joint so there's a little truss-rod access hole in the pickguard right where the upper frets end (the pickguard is made like that). the pickup configuration is P-bass style. the machinehead knobs are shaped like hearts. you know how sometimes they look like clubs or butterflies? these ones look like hearts. so sweet.

here's the best pic i have on hand that i could find of it:

we're pissed because some of my friends and i got together to buy this bass as a gift to Jude. :smt013

so please, please, if you have any information on the whereabouts of this bass, please let us know. i don't believe there are many basses like this in singapore. it's fairly uncommon.

thanks for reading this and thanks for your help. much appreciated.

sincerely,
- dharma s.

 

[rottenramone]

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If it was really stolen, u could make a police report?

anyways, will keep a lookout for it. hope the a$$hole burns in hell.

 

[nitrovo]

Daammmn dude, I really hope you find it. I don't know what would happen if someone took my baby

goodluck, hopefully noone took it and it will turn up.

 

[penguin]

could it been misplaced? Bass guitar is kinda huge...dun think it will just slip thru ur nose...hmmm

 

[stars]

will keepout on luthermusic classifieds for ya in case it surfaces as a "2nd hand" axe for sale

 

[Mr_X]

check the 2nd hand stores for the bass.

hope ya find it.

 

[serialninja]

yeah we were actually waiting cause the staff at velvet joint were checking with the bands that jammed there between the time we jammed with the bass and the time we couldn't find it, approximately 1 week. you know, in case one of the bands accidentally took the bass without realizing it was the wrong one. if none of the bands seem to have the bass, we'll make a police report. we searched the whole studio thoroughly.

we have a ton of our own equipment that we like to use because it's good stuff, but it's all too much to keep moving back and forth, so like some other bands there, we keep our equipment at the studio. of course basses are pretty large and anyone trying to walk out with our bass will come under scrutiny while we're there. however, there was a period of roughly 6 days that we weren't at the studio (we don't jam every day because we have work and school and such) and it must've disappeared during that interval.

essentially it's like this:

leave studio after jamming, all our equipment is there. come back to studio 1 week later to jam, everything's there minus 1 bass guitar.

i hope another band just mistakenly took the wrong bass home, but so far none of the bands the studio has called are saying they have it. if nobody seems to have it, i'll go down to make a police report with the studio owner and hopefully something will turn up.

 

[penguin]

i leave my stuff at the studio as well...but i always make sure that the stuff are place in its proper location.and labelled

This is strange..if someone had taken ur fren bass , he shld have inform the studio owner..and that the stuff shld not be accessible to others (restricted area for jammers)
wat has the owner for the studio has to say abt this?

anyway gd luck man..!!u need it :lol:

 

[M]

Another bassist has also lost his bass at Beat Merchants. Seems like basses are popular target of thieves.

 

[M]

i leave my stuff at the studio as well...but i always make sure that the stuff are place in its proper location.and labelled

Labelling items are not good enuf if the items are accessible to other jammers in the so-called restricted room. You'll never know who gonna swipe what. Best that the studio owner keep it in a special room under lock and key. Like what Grain is doing. And only him have access to the store room where the equipments are kept.

 

[moggie_54]

Hmm.. Only the bass is missing huh?? What about the other equipments?? The thieve stealing the bass is kind of weird to me coz the other equipment is still there.. A kind thieve I guess.. Is there any other clue at the scene??

 

[nitrovo]

I lost my metallica shirt at my condo pool and traced up the people that had a party there and i went to their house and said did they take it by accident ( young teenagers) and they said they hadn't seen it. 3 days later their mum came up to me and said they found my shirt in their towels and stuff, so maybe someone could have taken it and not known and denied having it when they do.

you might not like the idea but maybe scratching your name into the back or getting your name engraved on the panel that holds the neck to the body.

maybe install a GPS device under the pickups :twisted:

any way good luck and keep us posted

 

[penguin]

the label part is just for identification purposes..
i do agree its the responsibility of the owner of the jam for some sort of security...im still wondering how it could get lost ...

btw M i leave my stuff at Grains as well
and we kinda have this mutual agreement for the stuff to be there..
no one else shld be moving the stuff without prior agreement from me..

 

[amnesiac]

good luck finding it

i play the bass too and i know what it feels like to have stuff stolen. got my DV cam swiped in school before and never got it back. a police report was futile, cos i didn't get it back. my advice is, never leave your axes/equipment in a particular place for storage other than your own home no matter how troublesome it is to transport them to and fro. I would rather face the hassle than to lose my bass and equipment. My bass is like my "wife'' haha. I never leave it anywhere other than my own home. Well, i will keep a look out for you when i visit 2nd hand guitar stores. I do frequent them quite often. Good luck finding it dude.

 

[M]

Re: good luck finding it

my advice is, never leave your axes/equipment in a particular place for storage other than your own home no matter how troublesome it is to transport them to and fro. I would rather face the hassle than to lose my bass and equipment.

The best advice!

 

[Grain]

nn

Studio owners are not responsible or in any account held responsible for any of the jammers equipments and personal belongings. Its a good thing that Studio Owners let their jammers leave their equipments in the studio area free of charge. Lee Kwong Seng Music Studio i knoe also having let their jammers store their equipments n instruments. They never take advantage of the situation though, but they still provide a secure storage area n only the studio owner will hv excess to it.

 

[sycododo]

my friend's cousin guitar has steve vai's signature (i have not seen it yet so...) and he left it in a coffee chop to buy a drink. asked his friends to look after but they did not. so when he came back to the table, the guitar was gone.

 

[M]

Next time use tissue paper or newpaper to chop seats/table...

 

[wangdexian]

Hey dharma, will look out for that ibanez beauty...
Hmmm, teban people sure are unlucky.

 

[Ady]

Sori to hear bout ur bassist n his lost bass guitar.....

I would feel the same way too if i lost my gear......

I do jam at VJ n i did twice left my guitar there......so far no probs.

But i believe dat musicians should bring ur stuff and not jus left there cos it will be unfair to the owner if anithing should happen to ur stuff. Be lost or damaged unless store in a special place.

I understand dat its convenience to put there......but wat happen if ur stuff is lost or damaged. I dont blame the owner but u dont expect to hv a securitylike a changi prison.

My advise is jus bring along ur stuff where everu jam cos dats ur commitment n effort to be a inspiring musicians.

Good luck in trying to locate the bass. I do hope its back in ur bassist hand.


Cheers.....