Lollapalooza on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. (Credit: CBS)
UPDATED 08/09/11 9:12 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Psychedelic rock band “Portugal. The Man” saw their trailer full of gear stolen after they played Lollapalooza Sunday night.
The trailer was later found, but it was hardly a happy ending.
The band, who are based in Portland, Ore., but are from Wasilla, Alaska, had been playing at the festival when their trailer was stolen from an attended lot in Grant Park, according to a band tweet.
The thieves took the band’s Red Ford 15 passenger 350 van with a black trailer attached, and Alaska license plates FJH244.
Police found the van and trailer on Monday night. It was recovered in the 5800 block of South Paulina Street in the West Englewood neighborhood.
Everything that had been inside the trailer was gone.
“Portugal. The Man” recently came out with their sixth album, “In the Mountain of the Cloud.” They were onstage at Lollapalooza at 5 p.m. Sunday on the Sony Stage near Balbo and Lake Shore drives.
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LOL!!!
August 8, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Here is a solution: Stay out of Chicago! That is all this says. What a stank hole.
August 8, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Just look at the schools, unemployment, segregation, crime, etc..
August 8, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Chicago is a great city. Being from the South, I’ve recently visited it and found the downtown area to be a wonderful place. Unlike some other large cities (Nashville, Atlanta, etc), Chicago didn’t have bums chasing you down in the streets demanding money. It has a good public transportation system and is SAFE. Nashville, controlled by Republicans, is a cesspool by comparison and with less than half the residents!
August 8, 2011 at 10:52 pm
I have lived in Chicago. You must have never been to Rush Street. Bums begging everywhere. I haven’t been there in ten years but I hear it is worse now.
August 9, 2011 at 4:44 am
Atlanta suffers from the same malady as Chicago, liberal democrats running the show. And, just for Dave, Nashville’s mayor is Karl Dean, a democrat.
August 9, 2011 at 6:45 am
@Dave: You’re clueless. Well, partly so: Atlanta is a cesspool just like Chicago – so you’re spot-on there, but you forgot to mention Detroit and Memphis (also cesspools). But I have been alone in downtown Nashville quite late at night many, many times, and have always felt completely safe. And Nashville isn’t exactly a ‘big city’ as you call it: Nasville/Davidson County has <700k residents, and the entire 13-county Nashville metro area has less than 1.6mill. Which leads me to believe you are both clueless, and a Yankee, in contrast to your 'being from the South' statement, because anyone from the area would never call Nashville 'a big city.'
August 9, 2011 at 8:07 am
I’ve been out of Chicgo for 18 years. Living in the great town of Cincinnati now, and loving it. Chicago, like most other cities, has been infested and ruined by Democrat machine-style politics. Sure, it has a pretty face (downtown, parks along the lake, etc.),but it’s a different story out in the ‘hoods
August 9, 2011 at 10:44 am
Dave, I’ve lived in both Nashville and now Chicago. No comparison. In Chicago, we’ve now been encouraged by our employer to not wear “excessive” jewelry, or carry cell phones, tablets , etc., for our own safety. We work DAYS! I was walking with my 22 year old daughter and we weren’t chased down the street by homeless….she was pinched on the rear by one! Chicago is now a complete train wreck. No money, no jobs. The teens now see robbery and violence as a way to get even. I’m not sure how you fix THAT kind of mentality.
August 9, 2011 at 10:49 am
Thank God for the 2nd Amendment.
August 9, 2011 at 11:29 am
I’ve played in many bands. This happens EVERY DAY to bands big and small. I can’t believe they still allow this to go on. Spend a lousy 300 bucks on a GPS device that can be monitored in real time on the internet. The thieves will never know you’re following them straight to their homes. How about making roadies trade off trailer monitoring duty? The show’s only a few hours, give someone a lawnchair and some food and make them sit there. Stupid for this to happen.
August 8, 2011 at 3:01 pm
These are all really good suggestions. Way too much common sense for a rock and roller.
August 8, 2011 at 6:06 pm
They’re probably against union rules.
August 8, 2011 at 6:30 pm
What about all the countless crimes committed against people who are not “rock and rollers” that could have been prevented with a little common sense every day? You don’t have to worry though, there’s no crime against stupidity so you are safe.
August 9, 2011 at 9:04 am
Nah, they’d rape and kill the roady, eat his food, and STILL steal the trailer. It’s the new Obamanation at work…. how do you like the HOPE and CHANGE so far?
August 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm
@massmurderer, Your attempt at humor is a sorry one at best!
August 8, 2011 at 3:03 pm
start walking hipsters!
August 8, 2011 at 3:13 pm
in Chicagoland…there is no such thing as personal property, it’s a spread the wealth community – where what’s yours is mine & what’s mine is yours – I can be you & you can be me…it’s all about social justice, so just relax man!
August 8, 2011 at 3:39 pm
The thieves are just community activists who are redistributing the wealth.
August 8, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Is this the urban iteration of rideshare?
August 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm
@joe, What is the Drudge Report. Also, I don’t see any racism here, are you sure you are on the right story?
August 8, 2011 at 3:45 pm
August 8, 2011 at 3:56 pm
“I don’t see any racism here”
Some libunatics consider any post which doesn’t praise Obama to be racist.
August 8, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Sad that they lost their gear.
However, this is not “psychedelic” rock at all.
Third-rate Gangly Moose ripoffs if you ask me.
August 8, 2011 at 3:52 pm
And that’s relevant why?
August 8, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Lollapaloozers, couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch…………
August 8, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Hope it happens to you next. What a piece of garbage you are.
August 8, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Hey bud, if your white its happening already! Hail Obama!
August 9, 2011 at 9:39 am
Stop Liberal-on-Liberal Crime!
August 8, 2011 at 4:18 pm
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If they saw their trailer getting stolen why didn’t they run after it?
August 8, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Joe – you seem to the only one with prejudices commenting thus far; everyone else is stating fact. Now, if people are stating facts that you don’t personally like then that would be your personal problem. Chicago is ripe with children mobs made up of all races not to mention the run-of-the-mill thieves. Maybe your head is too far up your arse for you to realize this…. again, a personal problem.
August 8, 2011 at 5:20 pm
I wonder if you might mean “rife: instead of “ripe”…depending on how often the criminal gangs, of no special race, bathe, I suppose.
August 8, 2011 at 9:32 pm
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ” ~ H. L. Mencken
—————– http://911essentials.com
August 8, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Nice quote from my favorite old-time liberal journalist from Baltimore City.
August 9, 2011 at 10:52 am
Let us hope their new album sells as well as their previous efforts, so that they may quickly replace their stolen belongings. *Burp*
August 8, 2011 at 5:43 pm
The cesspool called Chicago!!!!
August 8, 2011 at 6:05 pm
WELCOME TO CHI-TOWN!!! now u know why they call it the windy city…your stuff is gone with the wind!!!
August 8, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Like hey man, these musicians are way too pre-occupied with material possessions.
August 8, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Whether you like the band or not isn’t the point…music is subjective. Either way, they’ve worked hard enough to get to the point where they’re playing one of the largest festivals in the country. No one deserves to have their van or gear stolen, no matter how much you might not like someone’s music.
Clearly the right-wing commenters don’t have the empathy the Bible teaches (how ironic), and are instead using the opportunity to make snap judgements.
August 8, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Most of us “Right Wingers” don’t live by a book of fiction.
August 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Actually, the Right, by and large, has more Bible-worshippers than the Democrats.. Ever heard of the “religious right?” They’ve decided each GOP candidate since Reagan.
But I agree with you’re sentiment, it is a book of fiction. I am, also, a Republican.
August 8, 2011 at 10:58 pm
@Dave:
But you didn’t know Karl Dean was a Dem.
You are no Republican. Your posts give you away.
August 9, 2011 at 8:12 am
Read the Bible, do you? Or just mention it when it serves your purposes…Bet you can even (mis)quote a scripture or two in a pinch.
August 8, 2011 at 8:01 pm
empathy, schmepathy…it’s par for the course in Chicago. If someone sees an opportunity to rip you off, they will take it! Sure, it happens in other big cities too, but Chicago is where it is practiced daily and has become an art form.
August 8, 2011 at 9:16 pm
ah, the on-cue slam at Christians now. How appropriate for a story about rockers getting their stuff stolen.
Just hang on…the your friends the mooslims will allow all the concerts and drugs and sex you want. /
How stupid and childish you people are.
Now say something about George Bush and facists…
August 9, 2011 at 7:25 am
I would rather misunderstand the Bible in every aspect of my life than adhere to the utopic socialist idiodicy promoted by you and yours.
Now for a generally ignorant comment, as you are on that wavelength.
Clearly the left-wing commenters dont have the understanding that Karl Marx teaches (how ironic) on weatlh redistribution, and are instead using this opportunity to bash a religion.
You bigoted hypocrit, clearly these people were just taking what was already theirs.
August 9, 2011 at 9:45 am
Like you just did?
August 9, 2011 at 10:55 am
Troll.
August 9, 2011 at 11:49 am
Ah, the ol’ preemptive strike! You tell them Joe. Sooner or later there would be a comment about how blacks or Hispanics stole the van and trailer. Whoa! See? You were right!
August 8, 2011 at 6:49 pm
None of you know what happened here for sure, so lay off the racist nonsense. They may have even been illegally parked unknowingly and their van could be sitting in impound somewhere on the south side. Regardless of what happened, this sucks. Being in a touring band and having your van and gear go missing like this is about the worst thing that could possibly happen.
August 8, 2011 at 6:55 pm
“when their trailer was stolen from an attended lot in Grant Park”
Uhm, Second paragraph.
Reading, it’s fundamental.
August 8, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Isn’t a reference to the South Side, in and of itself, a racist inference?
August 8, 2011 at 8:23 pm
No
August 9, 2011 at 10:57 am
Heh, Drudge linked to this. All it’s going to be is racist nonsense in the comments, because his readers are a bunch of dimwit racists.
August 9, 2011 at 9:16 am
Stop projecting beedogs and don’t be so cynical this morn.
August 9, 2011 at 11:00 am
All those of you who are blaming the “rock and roll hipsters” for the theift should wake up. I own an audio/sound company and had my trailer stolen last year with $30000 or so of sound and light gear in it. That stuff doesn’t just fall off of trees folks. I had spent the last 10 years with MY money outfitting that trailer…many hand made items like special cables/adapters to connect anything to anything and a really nice set of main speakers built by me was also in that trailer. I’m a serious business man who may be doing the battle of the bands one week then a business conference the next to DJing a wedding the next The slacker hipsters rarely own al the stuff you see onstage save the instrument in their hand. Local sound companies are usually hired to setup stage, mixers, speakers, lighting blah blah blah. And I can tell you the good stuff dont come cheap.
Sorry but this touched a little nerve with me. There’s a special place in hell for someone that brazenly takes somone elses property.
August 8, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Is NOT having an inexpensive GPS anti-theft device a rock & roll thing like a motorcycle jacket?
August 8, 2011 at 7:33 pm
A seasoned thief will easily remove those devices and destroy them. They have detectors for those.
August 8, 2011 at 11:00 pm
So blame the victim. Thats about par for the course.
August 9, 2011 at 11:25 am
Amen, brother.
August 9, 2011 at 11:03 am
Aw, shuddup. As for the racial identy of the perps – it’s CHICAGO.
Do the “math.”
August 8, 2011 at 7:43 pm
“Hey, I’m glad you liked it, sweetheart….Yeah, I felt like we played a pretty decent set tonight, thanks. Hey, why don’t you come back to the trailer? We’re gonna spark up a spliff and have some beers. It’s just over…um, it’s over here, it’s uh, I think it’s here–HEY GUYS! WHERE THE HELL IS THE TRAILER?”
August 8, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Joe – Where’s the racism?
Oh I get it – It’s everywhere, right Joe?
Well, here you go – My guess is that Joe is Polish.
August 8, 2011 at 9:00 pm
LOL!
August 9, 2011 at 11:19 am
This is a private sexual matter that’s Bush’s fault. BTW, How do you get your “gear” stolen when you’re on stage playing it?
August 8, 2011 at 9:36 pm
You’re a real bright one. They obviously weren’t on stage when it was stolen, you nitwit.
August 9, 2011 at 9:17 am
Cops were busy patrolling for people eating fatty duck liver!
August 8, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Cops were busy busting a toy poodle owner who dog was off a leash!
August 8, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Cops were busy chasing down smokers who weren’t 20 ft away from the door!
August 8, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Cops were busy trying to track down that evil weed they were smelling!
August 8, 2011 at 10:17 pm
They obviously didn’t pay off the Chicago Thuds that control everything here! Help! We are all captive!
August 8, 2011 at 10:33 pm
So, uh, guess you would say Portugal. is a man down?
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August 8, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Chicago, Chicago that swindling town!
August 8, 2011 at 11:32 pm
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They had a “Palin for President” bumper sticker.
August 9, 2011 at 6:24 am
What? I’ve read a bunch of the comments and have seen no racism.
Wrong site, go back to some liberal democrat site, sheep.
August 9, 2011 at 7:19 am
Hey Joe, go back to watching more of your MSNBC/CNN kool-aid. I’m surprised you didn’t point fingers at the Tea Party too, tool.
August 9, 2011 at 7:30 am
First,,,, Check out Lincoln Towing,,,,,
Second, This is an ATTENDED LOT.,… meaning they or someone paid $50-$60 ,,,, GET THE ATTORNEYS INVOLVED
August 9, 2011 at 7:49 am
Walking. The Band.
August 9, 2011 at 7:56 am
Urban black culture is a cancer upon America.
August 9, 2011 at 10:13 am
well i live in chicago and im glad those guys stole some out of town alaskan dorks trailer. better that than rob us locals here. next time those rich alaskan snobs will learn to guard their stuff here in chitown. lollapalalozza is so lame and so 90s. i wish i could have seen the look on that bands face when they came out and saw an empty space where the trialer had been. they were probably like “dude! no way!”
so anyways its cool that some poor chicago lads came and liberated that nice trailer. some families will eat well tonitght after all that prepy college boy band stuff is pawned at chops across this great city of big shoulders.
i remember once back in the army i left my foot locker unlocked. i came back from the chow hall and found my stuff strewn all over and thrown out the window. then the drill sergeant made everyone do push ups to remember what i did. so i learned, just like rock band portugal at lollapaloza, that you gotta lock up your stuff and guard it in this world.
August 9, 2011 at 10:43 am
How dare those Alaskan mountain men come to Chicago and perform in an event that brings in millions of dollars to the local economy! We don’t need to stinking money from outsiders! When we need money we just organize a flash mob and take it.
Where do you get the information that their equipment was not locked up? It was also in an attended lot, therefore, guarded. Did your drill sergeant make you do pushups until your common sense was sweat out your head? I know I was able to keep mine…
August 9, 2011 at 11:31 am
As it was an attended lot, the lot is 100 percent liable for the loss. Get a lawyer and sue.
As for the van being stolen? Yup, happens to bands all the time, because a lot of them don’t give a second thought to the fact that yes, people will rob them blind. Especially in places like chicago.
August 9, 2011 at 10:44 am
well i live in chicago and im glad those guys stole some out of town alaskan dorks trailer. better that than rob us locals here. next time those rich alaskan snobs will learn to guard their stuff here in chitown. lollapalaloza is so lame and so 90s. i wish i could have seen the look on that bands face when they came out and saw an empty space where the trialer had been. they were probably like “dude! no way!”
so anyways its cool that some poor chicago lads came and liberated that nice trailer. some families will eat well tonight after all that prepy college boy band stuff is pawned at shops across this great city of big shoulders.
i remember once back in the army i left my foot locker unlocked. i came back from the chow hall and found my stuff strewn all over and thrown out the window. then the drill sergeant made everyone do push ups to remember what i did. so i learned, just like rock band portugal at lollapaloza, that you gotta lock up your stuff and guard it in this world. i hope there was lots of fancy snacks and champagne in that trailer.
August 9, 2011 at 10:47 am
Scott – your proctologist called, he found your head!
August 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Why anyone would live there is beyond me. MOVE.
August 9, 2011 at 11:01 am
Chicago: What a He ll hole
August 9, 2011 at 11:36 am
Heaven forbid they or the record company think of something as trivial as INSURANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 9, 2011 at 11:37 am
My car was stolen in Chicago. The cops said to forget about the car and said they’d never catch the perp. Then I found my car 2 weeks later in another neighborhood and it had 6 parking tickets all issued on that same street in front of the same 3-flat. The cops refused to investigate even tho the perp was probably living there. I think the cops had something to do with it.
August 9, 2011 at 11:48 am
This is why I live 30 miles to the north of that mouli infested illegal alien sanctuary dump.
August 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm
The Democrats have allowed the savages to run wild in the city. Welcome to the new Detroit, now shut up and pay your taxes.
August 9, 2011 at 12:20 pm
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Being that the drummer, Jason Sechrist is my former stepson, I am very sad to see this kind of thing happening. In Chicago, Portland, L.A., or anywhere, it shouldn’t be ignored or accepted based solely on what city you’re playing in. I hpoe “The Man” gets your equipment back! Best Wishes.
August 11, 2011 at 9:37 am
I want to join the band . How can I join u?
August 12, 2011 at 1:56 am