Iggy and the Stooges were forced to borrow gear for their show at Toronto’s Massey Hall, according to their manager Eric Fischer, after the band’s equipment along with the truck containing it was stolen outside the Embassy Suites hotel in Montreal on Monday.
The group has set up a Web site in the hopes of tracking down the missing items along with the 15-foot yellow Penske rental truck (Michigan plates AC46493), which they say was taken sometime between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. on Monday.
“From guitars to duct tape, everything’s gone,” Fischer told the Detroit News.
Included on the list is bassist Mike Watt’s Red Gibson EB-3; a volcano black Reverend Flying V guitar; two black road cases containing Marshall vintage amplifiers; several Marshall 4-by-12 cabinets; a Gretsch silver sparkle Catalina drum kit and drum heads, a green clamshell suitcase containing Yamaha drum pedals and Zildjian cymbals, along with two Boss chromatic tuners, a Crybaby wah, tuner pedals, and lots of other items that help the veteran Detroit band rock out so tremendously hard.
Watt has posted some pictures of the stolen gear on his Web site. If you happen to see anything familiar while perusing the local pawnshop, contact Fischer at nycentral13@gmail.com. — Aidin Vaziri