Official statement:

After reading about these incidents throughout the years, I never imagined this happening to our band. Our trailer was stolen from in front of our home in Hacienda Heights, CA at some point between 4AM-6AM on the morning of Monday July 20th. Nearly all of our equipment was inside and worth thousands of dollars. It is a 6x10 white cargo trailer with a bent right wheel well, a small hole in the side door, foil tape on the front bumper, and some band stickers on the back. Among the stolen equipment is a custom DW mahogany drumset and snare, Peavey 5150 II amp in a green Dear Life roadcase, Ampeg 8x10 cabinet, and many more valuable instruments. We will be posting a more comprehensive list on our page. If you have any information on the incident, or come across any of it at a local pawn/music shop, or hear about some dude who came up on some dope shit, please get in touch with us. You can reach us at our MySpace (www.myspace.com/dearlife) or send an email to vince@dearxlife.com. We haven't been an active band in the last few months but we're still musicians and it definitely hurts to be violated like this. We realize that this is a long shot, but it's the only shot we've got. Thank you for your time.

UPDATE: Crazy turn of events! It is now 1AM late Monday/early Tuesday and we found the trailer, but of course it's empty. These idiots left the empty trailer down the street from our good friend Alex Estrada in Hacienda Heights. With the help of local businesses and police enforcement, we might be able to find these idiots. Once again, if you think you've come across any instruments from our equipment list, please contact us! Local pawn shops, music stores, and Craigslist are the first places to look as they are the quickest scores. Thanks everyone for the kind words and donation offers! We appreciate the love.


Here's the list of stolen equipment:


DW Collector's Series drumset
10" floating tom, 12" floating tom, 14" floor tom, 18x22" bass drum
Looks similar to this except with all black hardware ( http://dwdrums.com/showroom/satinoil/cherry_black_fade.htm )

DW Collector's Series custom snare
7x14" with all gold hardware
Looks similar to this except with all gold hardware ( http://dwdrums.com/drums/toms/exotic/ex-red-fade-zebra.htm )

DW 9000 Series HiHat stand

DW 9000 Series double tom stand

Black Roc 'n Soc Original saddle throne

Pacific snare stand

Yamaha boom stand

Sabian "17 AA medium crash

Zildjian 14" Rock HiHats

Zildjian 20" ride

SKB drum cases for all drums

SKB large golf case used for all hardware

Jackson DXMG Dinky - glossy black w/ black hardware ( http://www.dv247.it/assets/products/54546_l.jpg )
w/ SKB guitar case (Dear Life spray-painted on the side)

Randall RGT100 Tube Amp (decorated with bright neon spray paint, very noticeable)

Ampeg 4x12 Guitar Cab (decorated with same psychedelic colors, space ships, and stars. watch out for neon paint!)

Ampeg 8x10 SVT Bass Cab (wire mesh in front is loose and falling off, tolex road wear)

Schecter Stilleto 4-String Bass - natural satin (w/ black bass guitar case)

VHT 4x12 Guitar Cab (w/ black road case on wheels)

Peavey 5150 II Guitar Amp (w/ forest green road case, Dear Life spray painted on sides)

2 Mogami 25’ instrument cables

SKB Pedal Board w/ 5 asst. Boss effect pedals (Tuner, Noise Suppressor, Pitch Shifter, DD6 Delay, Chorus)

Dear Life merchandise - shirts, hoodies, posters, stickers, CD's, etc.


If you come across any of this at any point or think you might know of its whereabouts, please contact us.

Thanks,

Vince, Matt, Mike, and Daniel
vince@dearxlife.com