In 1995, we traveled to Boston, MA to play a free show to support Amnesty International. The night before the show, we arrived at the residence of a friend of the band who lived in Charlestown, and who assured us that the neighborhood was plenty safe for us to leave our gear in our van overnight, rather than schlepping it all down a hill and up several flights of stairs.

That night, the van was broken into, and almost all of our gear – instruments, amplifiers, accessories – as well as our GROCERIES – were stolen. We filed a police report, but as the officer told us, “no one snitches in Charlestown.”

There’s an MTV News article about it.

Here’s a picture of me with a bass that was stolen (along with Big Star’s Jody Stephens and a friend of the band’s)