CBCnews
Story Tools: EMAIL | PRINT | Text Size: S M L XL | REPORT TYPO | SEND YOUR FEEDBACK | Bookmark and Share

Thieves snatch Iggy Pop, Stooges gear following Montreal gig

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 | 11:09 AM ET

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.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
  •  
Story Tools: EMAIL | PRINT | Text Size: S M L XL | REPORT TYPO | SEND YOUR FEEDBACK | Bookmark and Share
 

Related

Video

Michael Dick reports: Iggy Pop, Stooges robbed of equipment (Runs: 2:19)
Play: QuickTime »
Play: Real Media »

More Music Headlines

Peaches Christ Superstar set to go Audio
Canadian electro-rapper Peaches is going ahead with her solo performance of Jesus Christ Superstar next week in Berlin after a battle over rights with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
Ian McEwan's Atonement to be opera
British author Ian McEwan's bestselling novel Atonement will be made into an opera set to premier in 2013.
Oscar Peterson statue to grace Ottawa
A fundraising campaign has been launched to erect a life-size bronze sculpture of Oscar Peterson outside the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Zukerman extends NAC Orchestra contract
Pinchas Zukerman has renewed his contract as the National Arts Centre Orchestra music director for another four years.
Toronto baritone wins Met competition Audio
Toronto-born baritone Elliot Madore is still on a high after being selected as one of five winners at Sunday's Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

More Arts Headlines

Facebook gag fools PM's spokesman
A Quebec television show has used a Facebook sting to expose an embarrassing hole in the personal security of prime ministerial communications director Dimitri Soudas.
Actress Vardalos plays role in saving teen
Celebrated Winnipeg actress Nia Vardalos is being credited with playing a role in helping a young man in Florida who was contemplating suicide.
Film on Bathurst basketball team planned
A Moncton, N.B., production company hopes to make a TV movie about the Bathurst High School basketball team's 2009 championship win, achieved a year after the school was shaken by a van crash that killed eight people.
Anna Nicole's estate won't get tycoon's wealth
A court in San Francisco has ruled that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get nothing from the estate of her late husband J. Howard Marshall.
King Ralph reigns on new game show
Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein will be handing out his signature "Ralph Bucks" on a new game show that airs this weekend — except this time, people won't actually be able to cash them in.

People who read this also read …

Top CBCNews.ca Headlines

Headlines

New B.C. avalanche kills snowmobiler
A massive avalanche in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry on Friday killed at least one snowmobiler, injured two others and sparked a search for anyone else caught in the second deadly slide in the area in the past week.
Montreal shop owner arrested after slayings Video
Montreal police arrested the owner of a clothing boutique where deadly shootings took place as homicide detectives finished combing through the blood-spattered crime scene Friday.
9/11 deal for workers 'not enough': judge
A federal judge has rejected a mutimillion-dollar deal to compensate thousands of emergency workers who had claimed that cleaning up the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center had made them sick.
Obama makes final health-care pitch Video
U.S. President Barack Obama made a final push to rally support before this weekend's vote on health-care legislation, charging that the country cannot afford to miss this historic opportunity.
Woolstencroft wins 4th gold medal
Lauren Woolstencroft of North Vancouver won the women's standing super-giant slalom ski race Friday for her fourth gold medal of the Paralympics.