John 5 needs your Help to find his guitars
and some other personal prized possessions. Apparently some real jerks broke into his house and made off with some stuff including some guitars. Here are some photos of what was taken. If you come across them, hit him up on his Facebook page here.
JOHN 5
Items stolen:
- Make/Model: Fender Telecaster
- Serial Number: R33725
- Color: Sparkle Silver
- Make/Model: Fender Telecaster
- Serial Number: V137811
- Color: Black with white piping
- Make/Model: Custom Normandy Guitars Alumicaster
- Serial Number: Custom
- Color: Chrome plated, had two black humbuckers, no pickguard and a Gibson style selector switch located where Gibson puts them (upper bout)
- Make/Model: Gibson Les Paul
- Serial Number: –
- Color: Black with gold pick-ups
- Make/Model: Deering Deluxe Banjo
- Serial Number: 02256103B
- Detail: 6 String Banjo
- Item: Painting
- Details: The Creature from the Black Lagoon painting on white frame. Custom painting by Rob Zombie
- Detail: Happy Birthday J5
- Item: RIAA Record Award
- Details: R.I.A.A. awarded to John 5 and Rob Zombie for the album Educated Horses.
- Detail: Happy Birthday J5
- Item: Mac Computer
- Details: Mac Book Pro Laptop OSX 1025
- Item: Mac Computer
- Details: Mac 21 Home Computer
If you have any details that may be of help, please contact the authorities, send a message to John 5 on his Twitter and Facebook or contact here at the contact page using the contact form and make sure you choose “Info regarding stolen items” in the drop down subject: http://john-5.com/main/contact
Please circulate this info to guitar dealers, pawn brokers and have a look on eBay, Craigslist, Amazon etc – and remember IF you see anything you GENUINELY believe to be one of the items described PLEASE do not pursue on your own but contact the authorities.
please re post this everywhere!
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TicketMaster out of tickets.Here’s why
I still think Ticket”bastard” sucks out loud… I hate buying tickets from them but I guess its how it’s got to be. But here are 6 real reasons why. I will just put down number 3.
For the complete article over at Buzzfeed. Hit the link after the paragraph…
3. Many artists scalp their own tickets.
Managers — and sometimes artists themselves — regularly sell their allotment of tickets on the secondary market to the highest bidders. This has been going on for decades, and though it sounds sleazy, they’re legally in the clear.
This practice is pervasive in the concert industry, but it’s very rare that anyone is called out on it, though Katy Perry was outed for doing this when The Smoking Gun posted her tour rider in 2011. Here’s the language her management used in the rider:
From Buzzfeed.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/6-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-buy-concert-tickets
chuck
chuck@kickacts.com
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Speaking of KISS,
Here is my review of “Monster”.
And my review of Peter Criss’s autobiography.
And a short story I wrote about “Joey Star”