Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?

Subject: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 03:40 PM

Were any Musical Instrument Shops looted ?
Where, and how badly ransacked ??
Any precious vintage guitars, etc, stolen or destroyed ???

Just saw very brief TV News images of thieves running off
with what looked like a bowl backed lute
and a ukelele ????

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 03:48 PM

Rockbottom in Croydon, but I doubt if the scum who ran off with any instruments would know what they had. In any case the shop would have the serial numbers.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 03:50 PM

Here's one, from today's Daily Telegraph.

"Gunner Liam Bretherton, 20, faces dismissal from the Army after walking into a guitar shop with a valuable Gibson Les Paul just 12 hours after a flagship music store in Manchester had been ransacked by looters.

He was arrested when the owner of the shop became suspicious and checked the serial number on the instrument. He then locked him in the shop until the police arrived."

I know there were people suggesting that it would have been a good idea to put soldiers on the street...

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: C Stuart Cook
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 04:10 PM

Dawsons was the store in Manchester that got trashed and robbed.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 07:41 AM

One of the newsreels I saw featured a scrote carrying a Fender (or possibly clone) bass guitar - I think it was from Manchester so it was probably from Dawsons.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 07:48 AM

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/83539/1312981622/luters.jpg

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 08:40 AM

Is that the shop where rioters broke in and left a whole pile of banjos?

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 08:51 AM

no, the owner paid them to smash those.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 08:53 AM

...but perhaps you're thinking of those rampaging "lutenists"

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 09:54 AM

ok.. found a genuine news screen grab...

keep an eye out for a Hoody in embarrassingly garish patterned shorts
at upcoming mediæval fayres...



http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/08/09/ok-somebody-looted-a-lute/

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 10:15 AM

I'm not so confident that's a genuine photo.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: josepp
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 10:30 AM

Some of them got away with a lot of lute.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 10:38 AM

Ok I feel I have to say this:

some people took the opportunity to through Bods into looted music shops.

Sorry

L in C#

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 10:52 AM

I know the Duke of Uke closed specially.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 10:53 AM

PS - always rather liked Dawsons - I ebought some AKG D880s mics there over 10 years ago and still prefer them to SM58s.

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 11:24 AM

It's definitely a [low quality] screen capture sourced from genuine Sky news riot footage...

We noticed it broadcast yesterday at 2.30pm during the first few minutes of a "Looters" special news interview.

Looks like it might be repeated 4.30 this afternoon ?

Just curious & concerned where it was nicked from..

Any music emporium is a sanctified place of worship
but especially dread to imagine something like the early music shop or hobgoblin
getting randomly ransacked and burnt out by a violent mob
of opportunist half wits..

Subject: RE: Looted Musical Instrument Shops ?
From: Alan Day
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 11:32 AM

I understand a thief stole a valuable piano accordion ,but handed himself in after playing a few notes.
Al

Subject: Betsy Rutherford
From: GUEST,Martha Oost
Date: 21 Aug 11 - 01:42 PM

Hello,

I followed Your searching of the music of Betsy Rutherford,
did You get her music in the meantime, maybe from her daughter?
If not, it is possible for me to send You a copy of her LP
'Traditional Country Music'.

With kind regards,
Martha