Keith and Ezra write about what they know! The whole story is below, but just know that it helps the guys get out the frustration that they are finding many people (big and little) in the audience have experienced as well.
Don't Touch My Stuff! © 2012 Keith Grimwood, Ezra Idlet, and Connie Mims (BMI) Troutoons Publishing
We're just back from what should have been a great trip to Texas. Our performances and workshops with Trout and Wheatfield went even better than expected. It would have been the perfect trip, except that our van and all of its contents were stolen! Imagine the surprise and shock when Keith went out to the parking lot of the hotel and there was no van waiting. We're still coming up with things that are missing as a result of the theft. At first, it was just the instruments that we were thinking about. Then we thought about the PA and the amplifiers. Our dolly (Salvadore) was in the back of the truck. There were boxes of t-shirts and CDs.
We came to grips with all of this. Then we remembered, Ro Bear!!!!!!! They got Ro Bear!!!! What a surprise for Ro, when he woke up from his overnight hibernation to strangers pawing through his home. We can see him summarily lifted from his box of cables and tossed aside as the thieves dug through looking for valuables. Those bad people had no idea who they were leaving behind.
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