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CA Metal Band Wins Bodog Contest, Gets Ripped Off

posted Aug 20, 2006 at 9:55 PM by zMETALlica.  (6 Comments)

Laura McCutcheon of California's Ukiah Daily Journal reports that Ukiah, CA-based metal band DEFINITION UNKNOWN (MySpace) won round one in a national contest, but band members lost something near and dear to them in the process: their equipment.

About the same time the announcer of "Boot Camp" — also known as round one of the Bodog Battle of the Bands, held earlier this month at the 12 Galaxies in San Francisco — informed the group they'd won first place, their van, parked around the corner with $10,000 worth of musical equipment inside, was stolen, drummer Tommy Shannon said.

"We lost every single guitar, including the bass. We lost all of our guitar amplifiers, one speaker cabinet, my kick pedals, my snare drum, two snare stands, a Roland TD-6 drum machine, one drum pad trigger, two China cymbals, and two cymbal stands ... Dennis' guitar amplifier alone was worth $1,800," Shannon said, adding that most of the guitars were worth about $1,000 each.

"It's ridiculous how much they got," he said. "We can't even practice right now."

Source: Blabbermouth

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6 Comments on "CA Metal Band Wins Bodog Contest, Gets Ripped Off"

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1. Chained writes:

I haven't heard of this band before, but I think their van & equipment being stolen is a really sh*tty thing to have happen. There are some real a**holes out there! It took me almost a year to save up for a decent guitar. I can't imagine everything being stolen!

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2. inhatredofme writes:

man that blows, i for one love my guitar and if anyone decided to steal it i'd go on some sort of rampage til i got it back. i hope these guys find their gear and the douche that stole it all.

# Aug 21, 2006 @ 12:40 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. Chained writes:

This band should check out their local pawn shops and music stores to see if any of their instruments showed up. Some crack head might have stolen everything and pawned it. I used to work at a music store where this type of thing occured fairly often.

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4. Ostracised writes:

Thieves are despicable creatures. Almost as bad as rapists and child molesters. But like everything else going on, it all boils down to the fact that nobody has any respect for anybody else anymore.

# Aug 21, 2006 @ 9:09 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. psythe writes:

^^too true.

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6. TheBassist writes:

Update:Some of Definition Unknown's sh** has been recovered. After doing some searching around on the good ol' Internet, some of the equiptment turns up on E-bay. The Jackass had the equipt serial numbers on one of the pictures. So, after matching them with reciepts and actually seeing the bass on the same seller's site. With a well organized packet of evidence and some help from the San Jose police(who were badasses), we ended up with all of the guitars, and one of the amp heads. It wasn't all the sh** but we got our guitars back in time to play a kickass show in our home town. We are still missing a mesa boogie head, a marshall head, and a bunch of drum equipt, and my f***ing van.

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