"In Rome on the morning of June 28th, we left the van for 15 minutes to grab an espresso before the drive north, and in that brief window some UNFATHOMABLY CALLOUS BASTARDS jimmied the lock and stole ALL OUR FUCKING GUITARS. These guitars are probably now either in an Italian pawn shop or somewhere online - if YOU can FIND any of them, we will give you free entry to all our shows forever, signed copies of everything we ever release, lifelong gratitude, and MONEY if that's what you want. We can not search Roman music shops personally, as we are now in Poland.
If YOU are an Italian Head, or feel up to a research challenge, we'd really appreciate your help. The two most important guitars are unique and easily identifiable.
Here's an album of our beloved friends, with notes on distinguishing characteristics.
These are the main two:
JORDAN's BURNS:
A Burns Marvin, Greenburst colour, with scroll headstock and three distinctively white Seyour Duncan pickups. One of the scratchplates had been removed, and the tremolo unit bolted down. Wound around the headstock was a black and white checkered shoelace bought by Jordan's sister Grace in Camden Market, but the shoelace has probably been removed. Those WHITE PICKUPS should give the game away though, plus it's probably the only Burns in Italy.
VAUGHN's JAZZ BASS:
Black fretless Fender Jazz bass with the scratchplate removed altogether, and a 2-Euro-Cent coin jammed into a hole on the front of the instrument. That coin was wedged in tight and aint going anywhere. Probably the only black fretless Fender Jazz bass with such a coin so wedged.
And then there are the backup instruments:
5-String Washburn Bass, light wood colour, with black Fender Jazz-style pickups recently inserted. This bass actually belongs to Stan Dudley, the original HHS bass player, and bore us through our first couple of hundred gigs.
And then there's a Fender Stratocaster, Roadhouse series, Tobacco-burst colour and tortoise-shell scratchplate. Bought by Jordan for his father-in-law and loaned as a backup guitar for this tour. There's nothing unique about it - it looks exactly like this one:
and you can see it in the bottom right here:
We're gonna try to pull some stills from videos but for now, GO FORTH AND HUNT FOR JORDAN'S BURNS and VAUGHN'S JAZZ BASS. If there's anything we can do to make such a task more worth your while, do let us know. We will also be scouring the internet every day, obviously.
They also stole a suitcase containing all our HHS T-Shirts - silver logo on black T-Shirts. So if you see someone wearing one of those, you might want to challenge him her to PROVE HIM/HERSELF with a TRIVIA DUEL - if they fail, go ahead and march them down to the copshop.
THANKS, and see you all soon,
Jordan & Vaughn & Max"
I sure hope they get them back
