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A Charlottesville, Virginia-based group became the latest victim Tuesday of what's become an epidemic of band thefts in St. Louis — and this time, the burglary happened in broad daylight.
Love Canon, a bluegrass band making its way into Denver, stayed outside Louisville on Monday night and stopped for lunch at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis around 2:15 p.m. When they keyed into their Ford Transit just about one hour later, however, they were horrified — just about $20,000 in gear had been taken, including several Macbook Pros, two pairs of custom-molded headsets, backpacks, luggage bags, and a large box full of cables and other equipment.
Only their instruments were spared — and that's solely because they'd customized the van to create a sleeping area, which separated the areas accessible from the back and the side door.
The thieves even took one member's song-writing journal. "That book was months of work," band member Colin Perkinson says.…
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A Charlottesville, Virginia-based group became the latest victim Tuesday of what's become an epidemic of band thefts in St. Louis — and this time, the burglary happened in broad daylight.
Love Canon, a bluegrass band making its way into Denver, stayed outside Louisville on Monday night and stopped for lunch at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis around 2:15 p.m. When they keyed into their Ford Transit just about one hour later, however, they were horrified — just about $20,000 in gear had been taken, including several Macbook Pros, two pairs of custom-molded headsets, backpacks, luggage bags, and a large box full of cables and other equipment.
Only their instruments were spared — and that's solely because they'd customized the van to create a sleeping area, which separated the areas accessible from the back and the side door.
The thieves even took one member's song-writing journal. "That book was months of work," band member Colin Perkinson says.…
