David Grismans mandola stolen

Subject: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: Sleepless Dad
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 10:53 PM

David Grisman's prize 1999 Gilchrist Mandola serial number 99446
was stolen from the stage of the BIG SKY MONTANA show
Saturday night September 6,2003.

Please contact us immediately if you have any information
about this instrument.

Please also pass this information on to anyone you might know, especially
in the Bozeman or Big Sky, Mt area...or anyone who might be in a position
to help us recover this valuable instrument.

Please post to any mandolin chat rooms you might be involved with....

Thank ypu for any help you can give us

Craig R. Miller
Manager

818-704-7800


The information above was copied from a post over at the mandolincafe.com

Here's hoping that Grisman gets his instrument back.

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: open mike
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 11:12 PM

bummer. i just heard him with the quintet thursday night in chico, cal.

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 09:28 AM

Damn! That's cold! I'm not a religious person. I guess you could say music is my religion, and David is one of its high priests. Stealin' an axe from somebody like Dave is like stealin' a statue from a church. God should strike your ass down for that shit.

Bruce

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 12:47 PM

Whoever stole this will - hopefully - have a hard time selling it. Anything made by Gilchrist is rare bird indeed. He'll either have to sell it for almost nothing or hide it in his closet for many years.

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: Sleepless Dad
Date: 13 Sep 03 - 06:34 PM

Good news - It's been returned. When Grisman got home there was a box from UPS with the mandola inside. There was a note that said that someone had found it in the parking lot and decided to send it back. Whatever really happened I'm glad musician and instrument have been reunited.

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Sep 03 - 07:05 PM

Always nice to hear GOOD news . So some people are honest (or realised it was unsellable)

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Sep 03 - 09:23 PM

The Fairies brought back my wallet today. Tire tracks on the outside, but everything intact. Small saving grace to a very bad week.

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 13 Sep 03 - 10:22 PM

Sounds like fodder for a halfway decent folk song..

Oh the night they stola Grisma's mandola....

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: Nerd
Date: 14 Sep 03 - 02:11 AM

I saw Grisman out in Bozeman and the man began to cry
for they stole-a his mandola up the road in old Big Sky
He felt burned, and home returned, and then he loudly hollered "YES!"
Cause the axe was in a box delivered up by UPS

CH:

Oh the night they stole-a Grisman's Mandola
Well, he really felt the lack
Oh, he had a hole-a in his soul-a
til he got the sucker back

Well, the crook had been a schnook and so he couldn't sell the thing
And to deposit in his closet such a lovely mandoling
seemed so sad that he felt bad, in fact, as dirty as a hog...
So he placed it its case and sent it right on back to Dawg.

CH:

So the Moral of my storal is don't steal what isn't yours
You might end up in South Bend with Dawg's old Gilchrist in your drawers
If you covet--well what of it?--just don't let your conscience down
Or you'll have to pay the piper (or at least the man in Brown)

CH

Subject: RE: David Grismans mandola stolen
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 03 - 04:37 AM

Sorcha , if it had tyre tracks on it, then it's probably a good job you didn't have it on you at the time.
Giok *BG*