Surf Band Mermen are offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to the return of their stolen gear.  They had all of their equipment stolen from the Flamingo parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Please read on for specifics, serials and reward information.

** Note: much of this equipment has been recovered:  Read this thread for the story: 

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Subject: STOLEN MERMEN GEAR $3000.00 reward for recovery
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:15:15 -0400
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Hello Everyone,


Here is a list of the musical equipment stolen from ATLANTIC/BMG/V2 internationally known recording artists, the MERMEN at the FLAMINGO HOTEL's oversize parking lot in LAS VEGAS, NEVADA on Friday , May 27 at about 6:00 AM. All of the equipment( approx $60.000,00 worth of some v ery custom gear,) and merchandise was in a 5 x 8 orange and white U-HAUL trailer: The U-Haul trailer that was chained and locked to our Ford Van. The thieves used bolt cutters to cut the trailer loose from the van. The stolen U-HAUL had a Chicago travel ad on the side, and the license plate # is: Arkansas PT103498. The U-Haul number is : AU34671C. Please forward this to as many places you can in Nevada and Southern California. MERMEN are offering a $3,000.00 reward for the return of this equipment. If you have any information regarding this equipment call:

JIM THOMAS 415 200 5493
831 464 3979
JENNIFER BURNES 415 725 4910
MARTYN JONES 650 455 5111
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It is going to take a while for us to find the serial numbers for all this stuff so we are sending out this prliminary list.

STOLEN EQUIPMENT:The following four guitars are peculiar in that they have no volume or tone controls and each guitar has two output jacks rather than one. These guitars are  extremely used and look that way-kind of beat up. The strings on the guitars are very heavy guage 13- 60

1 FENDER USA STRATOCASTER guitar BABY BLUE in color with a WHITE PICKGUARD tuned to an open D tuning. Has
MAVERICKS stickers on the back.

1 FENDER USA STRATOCASTER guitar SPARKLE RED in color with a WHITE PICKGUARD, maple neck tuned to a regular
tuning.

1 FENDER USA STRATOCASTER guitar PURPLE in color with a WHITE PICKGUARD. regular tuning.

1 FENDER USA STRATOCASTER guitar SILVER BLUE in color tuned to an open C tuning.

3 FENDER DUAL SHOWMAN/TWIN 100 watt tube amplifier heads. The are black in color with black control panels
Each has four 6L6 tubes and a variety of small tubes. one of the amps has red knobs. The other two have black chicken head
knobs with hand painted white markers on the knobs. These amps look beat to hell. but work and sound very good . One
of them has duct tape all around it.

1 FENDER speaker cabinet( with logo) with 2 vintage JBL D-130 15 inch speakers. Black in color with siver grill clotheThe cabinet has been modified to be an open back cabinet. one of a kind of cabinet. In very beat up condition.

1 FENDER closed back speaker cabinet ( no logo on front) with 1 vintage JBL D-130 15 inch speaker. Black in color
with silver grill clothe. In good condiiton.

1 FENDER JAZZ BASS with NATURAL WOOD MAPLE color and WHITE PICKGUARD, rosewood fingerboard Has a Roland GK-2 synth pickup on it.

1 FENDER FRETLESS JAZZ BASS CREME in color with white pickguard and EMG pickups on it.

1 AMPEG (year 2000) SVT classic 300 watt tube bass amp head. This amp is very beat up with some yellow knobs on it

1 vintage/collectible AMPEG SVT (year 1972) 300 watt tube bass amp head. label on the back says made in the LINDEN, NEW JERSEY factory. This is extremely well used amp.

1 vintage AMPEG SVT( year 1972 ) speaker cabinet with 8 - 10 inch speakers. has a green grill clothe AMPEG logo black vinyl and has some of the wood exposed. It is extremely well used,

2 OBERHEIM ECHOPLEX loop/smapler/digital delay. these are one space 19 inch rack mount units.

2 LEXICON LXP-15 II digital effects unit.

1 TC ELECTRONIC D-TWO digital delay

1 DIGITECH 1900 digital delay.

1 REAL TUBE II rack mount distortion preamp.

1 GCX rackmount midi audio/rounter switcher with the GROUND CONTROL pedal.

2 KORG rackmount tuners.

1 KORG handheld tuner.

2 MACKIE 1202 mixers.

1 MESA BOOGIE V-TWIN pedal

1 BOSS floor pedal tuner

3 BOSS TRMEOLO pedals. ( 2 light green in color , 1 dark green in color)

1 ELECTRO HARMONIX POG pedal.

1 BIG BRIAR MOOGER FOOGER RING MODULATRO foot pedal.

4 BOSS FS 5U foot switches.

3 ERNIE BALL mono volume pedals.

1 GOODRICH pedal steel volume pedal.

1 THREE PIECE PEARL custom drumset. 22 inch  BASS DRUM, 16 inch TOM , 14 inch TOM. Drums are PURPLE in color
There is an elabore MERMEN painting on the front head of the bass that was painted for us in JAPAN . IT has a
fish and a wave breaking on it.

2 LUDWIG MARCHING SNARE drums. These are BLUE SPARKLE in color and are 14 inches

1 REMO Djembe drum large size w african disigns

1 set of DW double bass drum pedals

1 DW Hi HAT stand.

8 ZILDJIAN cymbals in a cymbal case.

6 cymbal stands.

drum hardware and case with various percussion instruments.

1 SANYO LCD video projector

1 portable DVD player.

1 portable CD player.

250 MERMEN CDS various titles.
50 Mavericks contest DVD's
50 Mavericks contest T-shirts
1 very large Mavericks banner. "

References: 

http://www.mermen.net/equip.shtml

http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=14905&forum=11&15  

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