as a musician who owns a lot of equipment I feel for you dude. I'd be furious especially cause its just puts a huge damper on your band.

Keep us posted though, I'd like to hear what happens in the end with the insurance and whatnot cause its always been something I worried about.

Dont know if youre a metallica man, but back when they were touring and writing new material for the album "ride the lightning" They got their van broken into and totally lost everything in the middle of nowhere. James Hetfield wrote the song "fade to black" based on that experience and it ruled.

So hopefully you can draw some inspiration from this if anything. A suffering artist is a productive one.

Fade to black would be one hel of a cover as well.