But being me, I have made a list of the equipment that is missing, with serial numbers when I have them (yes, I should have ALL the serial numbers, but I don't).

If you find any of this gear, please inform the Ottawa Police at 613–236–1222x7300, and refer to report #08–357933.

Musical equipment missing includes:

• Targus laptop case with
  • Behringer MXB1002 mixer, with AC adapter, ser# N0213928122,
  • FMR RNC audio compressor, with AC adapter,,
  • Lexicon LXP-5, with AC adapter, ser# V1292-44861,
  • 4×dual 1/4" cables,
  • 2×1/4"-XLRm cables
• Multi-Caisses Road Boss 4 rack case with
  • Marshall 8008 power amp with broken power switch,
  • Denon 2000F MkIII cd player,
  • Apex AMX61 mixer ser# 20044492;
• 2×Yorkville speakers NX35;
• 2×Yorkville speaker stands, in padded nylon carrying case;
• 2×Plano pistol cases with:
  • Sennheiser Freeport handheld wireless mic sets ser# 1510410930 1510410805
• 2×K&M model 252 microphone stands, in padded nylon carrying case
• Flambeau 3501 fishing tackle box with audio adapters:
  • 4×XLRm gender changers,
  • 4×XLRf gender changers,
  • 4×XLRf-2m y-cables,
  • 2×Shure A15AS XLR pads,
  • 2×VGAm gender changers,
  • 2×VGAf gender changers,
  • 4×XLRm-TRSm,
  • 4×XLRm-TSm,
  • 4×XLRf-TRSm,
  • 4×XLRf-TSm,
  • 4×1/4 in TS (F) to Dual Banana
  • 8×RCAf-TSm,
  • 2×3.5mmf-TRSm,
  • 2×Shure A95UF transformers,
  • 2×IEC to Edison adapters
• black Pelican 1510 Laptop Carry On Case with
  • Apex headphones,
  • Shure SM58-S,
  • 15' XLR cable,
  • 6' XLR cable,
  • 2×3.5mm-2 1/4" male cables
  • boxes of
    • 12×9V batteries,
    • 24×AA batteries,
    • 24×AAA batteries,
  • Studiomaster Diamond 4-channel mixer (4-channel battery-powered mixer with XLR inputs),
  • Behringer CT100 cable tester,
  • Philips portable CD player
  • a couple of rolls of Permacel gaffer tape
  • the usual junk that accumulates in a briefcase,
• plastic crate with
  • 2×Furman SS-6B power bars,
  • 3×10 meter black power extension cords,
  • 4×50' speaker cords,
  • XLR cables (2×10', 2×25', 1×50');
• Manhasset Model #48 music stand;
• Shepherd flatbed cart

• the police,


• my insurance agent,


• the police (again),


• my insurance agent (again),


• three insurance claims people:
  
  
  • one for the van itself (three times),
  
  
  • one for its contents (once),
  
  
  • one who answered the phone when one of the others was on another call,
  
  
• a bunch of car rental folks (some several times; try to imagine how hard it is to rent a car on Christmas eve, during a transit strike -- it's actually much harder than that),

I just learned that Willie P. Bennett died on Friday.  At home, of natural causes (he'd had a heart attack almost a year ago).

PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-'n'-roll route?

DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?

This year was no different. Things started on the evening of Thursday the 15th with a gig at D'Arcy McGee's. That went pretty well, they sold a few CDs, and everybody went home happy.

Friday evening the 16th they did a gig at the Nepean Sailing Club which I didn't attend; Gene Bruce, the manager of the club, is an excellent sound guy, and the place has a very good sound system. I was going to go anyway, sort of a busman's holiday, but I ended up with a dandy migraine and wasn't in any shape to do anything that night.

St. Paddy's day started with a gig back at D'arcy McGee's at 11:30 AM. That ran until almost 2:00, then my lovely and talented assistant Dave Eh? and I tore down and packed up in a big hurry, and roared off to the Royal Oak Gloucester for a show at 3:00. And there we had troubles...

I bought a sound mixer just over a week ago, a used Yamaha 01V digital mixer (warning, PDF link). I played with it a bit, Heidi and Dave Eh? and I used it for several hours at a practice, worked great. I hooked it up in the sound system, everything was working well and sounding terrific, the band was into their second or third tune of the first set, when I made the grave error of considering ordering lunch. At that point, the audio coming out of the mixer stopped. Hmm, that's not supposed to happen. I shut the mixer off, waited a few seconds, and turned it back on. Got audio for a few seconds, then nothing. All the appropriate lights are on, the display shows what it's supposed to show, but no output.

Well, suspenders and a belt and all that, I had another mixer, though rather smaller, in the car, just in case. Trotted out, grabbed it, back in, then a flurry of activity as Eh? and I move the cabling over. The band, troupers all, just kept playing the whole time (it wasn't that big a bar, but big enough), and in a very short time, we had glorious amplified audio again. 5:00 came, we shut down and loaded out, and enjoyed a brief respite.

The rest of the band went over to the bassist's house for a bite to eat and a rest. Eh? and I went back to my place for another mixer; I wanted a more sophisticated mixer for the evening's show. We enjoyed a delightful dinner prepared by Heidi, my sweetie. I even managed to have a brief nap.

Then off to the Royal Oak on the Canal for the evening show. That show ran 9:30 PM to 1:30ish AM and went just fine, thanks.

Anyhow, if you see me looking a little the worse for wear over the next couple of days, that's my excuse. I fully expect that the band members will have slept many hours to try to recover.

• a Type 3 Squareback,
• a Super Beetle (with a sunroof, woohoo),
• a Van,
• a Rabbit, and
• a Fox.

That said, I saw this, and figured I had to tell everybody about it.