Torche's Gear Ripped Off In Chicago
Torche's tour van
Heavy rockers Torche parked their van in front of Goethe Elementary school after playing a show with tourmates Coheed and Cambria on May 14. Sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. someone broke into their van and made off with most of what was inside of it, right on down to bandmembers' passports. We are incredibly ashamed that the band would encounter this sort of treatment while in our city.
So we, and the band, ask you to come forward with any information you might have surrounding the events of that evening. In addition, the band has supplied a list of the instruments taken in order to help the public identify the stolen gear should anyone come across it. The band has also put together a PayPal page to collect donations should fans of their wish to pitch in as they rebuild.
The full list of gear stolen is after the jump.
- Custom Electrical Guitar Company bass w/hardcase #220
- First Act custom bass w/hardcase serial number # JN-0901002
- Black Gibson Custom Les Paul w/SKB hardcase (has chip on the top L side of headstock, visible neck repair on top side of the neck, may have missing paint opposite vol and tone knobs if sticker was removed).
- Custom woodfinish guitar w/hardcase
- Acoustic 370 Bass Head
- 2 x SKB PS25 pedal boards
- 2 x Boss tuning pedals
- MXR Phase 90
- Boss DD5 pedal
- Boss guitar EQ pedal
- Custom 3 way amp selector (metallic blue)
- Fulltone OCD pedal
- Aguilar Tone Hammer pedal
- Boss Bass EQ pedal
- Shure Beta 57
- Misc Mogami, Monster, and George L's cable
- Suitcase style 7 space guitar stand
- Black iPod Touch
- Black Compaq Presario laptop
- Nikon Blue Coolpix camera
- Sony CyberShot camera
- Garmin 205W GPS
- Black Luggage containing: tubes, guitar strings, instrument cables, speaker cables, tuning pegs, surge protectors.