Whicker and Pine’s Equipment Stolen
by Jon Johnson
Our drummer/producer and band manager live in a duplex-style apartment in the lower Highlands neighborhood. We had been recording our new EP there for the last couple weeks, and were getting close to finishing things up. We had booked a tour and were planning on selling our music on the road. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. Monday night, Labor Day 2012, someone broke into the downstairs and upstairs unit, stealing mainly computers and guitars. We had been using our drummer’s production computer and a separate hard drive for backup. They happened to grab both. All in all, we lost a 15” MacBook Pro with Logic Pro, and a slew of other media production suites: A 13” MacBook, a first-generation iPad, a G-Drive Slim 320 gb external hard drive, an old G5 MacBook that our drummer (JD) had in his room, an all-white Fender Telecaster (MIM), a suitcase pedal board with 4 effects pedals, a record player, small flat screen TV, a Mini Martin and a Gibson Les Paul.
Along with the computer and hard drives, they took our basic tracks to our record. We had a single that was nearing completion, and two solo records (in their entirety). On top of our tracks, JD had been working on a few other projects with his home studio, and all the files were lost as well, leaving three bands in Denver without their hard work and music. I know backing up is important, and we backup whatever we work on. It was poor timing to have the backup in the same room as the main files. I keep going back and forth, ‘Why I didn’t take the hard drive home with me the night before when we concluded tracking?’
We were able to save a bounce of our single “Santa Monica,” and use it as a “pay what you can” download on our bandcamp, along with a couple live tracks we recorded at the Open Air studios at Colorado Public Radio (big thanks to David Fender), so it’s not a total loss. A couple of the guys say that last record was “really expensive pre-production,” which is kinda true. We are going to re-record our record, and hopefully it will come out better, since we know what we did last time, and we know what things we fought in the mix.
All in all, insurance will replace the gear, but the files that we lost were priceless; wedding photos, kids, birthdays, and college, all gone. Make sure you guys back up your stuff. Most importantly, keep your backup somewhere else. J
There was a witness though, two different people saw a bald man loading duffle bags into a Yellow Jeep. Keep the gear baldy, we want our hard drives back.
Category: Local News
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