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Jana Hunter & Castanets gear stolen in AZ

castanetsThe Castanets wrote:

Here’s a message from Jana regarding yesterdays JH/Nets gear theft with some info on a Paypal account she’s set up to hopefully replace some gear in the near or far future. Said information can be found at the end of the message that many of you have already read. Thanks to everyone who has sent along a kind word in the last 24 hours. It’s awesome to know you all are around. Good times and living to you.

Continued below…

“This message was mailed and posted a couple days ago in various
places, and i’ve added something at the end for those inclined to
help out.

So, the story is, last night (Friday June 22) we played in tucson at solar culture.
afterward, we loaded our stuff up, went downtown, had a drink, and
went to a house to crash on the floor. en route, we damaged a door,
making it such that the door won’t close and such that eventually,
before we return the vehicle to the rental company, we’ll have to pay
on the order of 2 grand to replace the door.

seeing as how we had an unsecured vehicle, ray (castanets) slept in
the van. sometime during the night, some brave fuck(s) very quietly
opened the back door and took what they could carry. we assume their
were more than one of them given all the shit they managed to walk
away with. we’re gathering what serial numbers we can, but in the
meantime, here’s a rudimentary list:

JH gear-
fender classical guitar (ser.#9505151116)
new boss 20xl loopstation
boss reverb/delay pedal
original digitech whammy pedal
original b k butler tubedriver overdrive pedal
peavey 6 mixer (ser.#k0344300)
shure beta 98/s
custom flashlight circuit-bended thing

Castanets gear-
late 60’s blue fender music master guitar
line 6 delay pedal
boss tremolo
mutron volume/wah pedal
boss tuner pedal
digitech metal master
ebow
slides/cables

all this after we had to fly our friend/drummer to the airport
yesterday morning so he could go to the hospital. pretty big bummer
all around.

since that message was sent out, a lot of kind folks have written to
ray and i asking with very kind words of sympathy and offers of help.
given that we don’t expect to see our gear return to us and therefore
really could use the help, we’ve decided to set up a paypal account
and ask that whomoever is so inclined make a small donation to help
alleviate the costs of replacing our equipment. in order to accept
these donations, we have with the email address
[email protected]. if these folks are feeling especially
generous, we’d also ask that they donate from their bank accounts or
paypal accounts so that we can avoid paying fees on the donations.

we’re in the process of assessing how much we’ll need to replace our
equipment, but in the event that we receive more than we need, we
plan to pass on whatever is left over to a charity or charities.

thanks for reading,
jh

Jana Hunter – 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 25 – Good Records In-store Dallas, Texas
Jun 25 – Rubber Gloves Denton, Texas
Jun 26 – Mohawk Place w/Pink Nasty, Macon Terry Austin, Texas
Jun 29 – The Orange Show (full band) w/Pink Nasty, Macon Terry Houston, Texas
Jul 7 – Magic Stick w/Rasputina Detroit, Michigan
Jul 8 – Abbey Pub w/Rasputina Chicago, Illinois
Jul 10 – Varsity Theater w/Rasputina Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jul 11 – Record Bar w/Rasputina Kansas City, Missouri
Jul 12 – Bluebird Theater w/Rasputina Denver, Colorado
Jul 14 – Suede w/Rasputina Park City, Utah
Jul 16 – Hawthorne Theater w/Rasputina Portland, Oregon
Jul 17 – Neumo’s w/Rasputina Seattle, Washington
Jul 20 – DiverseWorks w/Kable, Hearts of Animals HTX