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On the morning of May 27 we arrived at a Holiday Inn in downtown Dallas Texas for our gig that night at Trees in Deep Elm. The parking situation was weird for our van and trailer, but we were instructed by the security guard at the hotel to check out the lot across the street, advised that it was safe. Waldo our road manager, checked it out, talked to a lot attendant who showed him a spot that was supposedly under surveillance.

When we woke after a few hours of sleep after driving all night we found the trailer broken into. All 6 of our guitars:,a white Gibson SG with a 666 sticker on it, 3 black Schecter c-1 ex baritone guitars, 2 Schecter s-1's (a black and a red) 2 Warwick basses (a natural finish and a black one), a kick drum with a Scorpio Rising cover art front skin, in case, a floor tom, a rack including an Alesis Adat machine with 4 Whirlwind direct boxes, 250 assorted Prong T-Shirts, and a box of 200 Scorpio Rising CD's, were stolen.

After consulting with a homeless dude in the vicinity I managed to get info on pawn shop in South Dallas were I was able to pay 100 bucks to recover one of the basses, the black Warwick.I then proceeded to get in a cab and check out a dozen or so other shops to no avail.

Having no other guitars other than the Schecters we were carrying in the back seat of the van for radio station promotion, we quickly restrung and set them up in the nick of time in the dressing room for the show at Trees. We pulled it off. We are now using supplemental guitars and basses sent immediately overnight kindly by Schecter.