Thieves snatch Iggy Pop, Stooges gear following Montreal gig
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 | 11:09 AM ET
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Iggy Pop plans to continue his current tour with the Stooges using rented and donated gear after a truck containing the band's equipment was stolen in Montreal. (Nathan Strange/Associated Press)Montreal might not be a good memory for American punk icon Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges after their instruments and gear were stolen following a weekend performance.
According to the band's road manager, Eric Fischer, the gear and instruments were worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The truck holding the equipment was stolen from outside the hotel where the band was staying on Monday following a concert the night before.
The missing items include "priceless" vintage instruments, Fischer told the Detroit Free Press. He singled out bassist Mike Watt's Gibson guitar, which he has used since he played with the Minutemen in the early 1980s.
"That bass would go in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame some day if we could find it," Fischer said. "We're all just gutted."
The 61-year-old Pop and his band are in the midst of the North American leg of an international tour. The band would continue on, Fischer said, including playing a gig in Toronto on Wednesday using rented and donated equipment.
With files from the Associated Press
