Photo via GoFundMe
Percussionist Mike Dillon is asking fans to help him bounce back from a treacherous night in Kansas City, Mo. which left the musician with a destroyed trailer and even included an armed confrontation with the culprit.
“Friday night after a gig, three drivers in a stolen vehicle over corrected and drove at 70 miles per hour into Mike Dillon’s airstream and his wife’s little truck,” reads the musicians’ GoFundMe page. “The drivers proceeded to hold Mike Dillon, Brian Haas, and Ginny Mac at gun point. As you can see in the images, both vehicles are destroyed. They insured but the labor, time, and love invested are not replaceable.”
Dillon added via social media, “Well after a great night playing music fucking asshole totaled my airstream, peregrines truck and fucked my van pretty bad. Devastated, but every one is okay.”
The musician hopes to raise $30,000 to get back on his feet.
In related news, Dillon recently dropped three quarantine LPs – Shoot The Moon, Suitcase Man and 1918.
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May 29, 2021 at 11:52 pmLove jams and improvisation, Hate jamband “fans” and epically trolls.
His gear was probably destroyed as well, and who knows what else, he probably had a mini studio setup I’m trailer.
.dam, you all suck and are the people talking during the quite jams
Truther
May 28, 2021 at 9:08 pmPeople who live in their parents’ basement would have no idea how insurance works…
Fraud?
May 29, 2021 at 11:09 pmUm I think we all know how insurance works. Yes you’re not going to be able to go out and buy new vehicles with an insurance claim – especially when they are very old. But certainly when you’re asking for $30k to get “back on your feet” it sure seems like he’s trying to capitalize on this and upgrade. Am I missing something? It’s quite sad to see this
Morph
May 26, 2021 at 3:47 pmSo this “back on his feet” $ through begging is to replace a 20 year old truck and trailer with new ones. Got it.
Oldschool Shane
May 25, 2021 at 6:35 pmCorrect on insurance claims. They will not give you what is needed to replace it. Will call them totalled and give you a low salvage value payout. That will only be a down payment on replacement vehicles.
Rick redenbirg
May 25, 2021 at 5:52 pmSham sham sham. $30K to get you back on your feet huh? I’d love to get people to send me that much money. Maybe I could replace my 99 Honda with 260K miles on it.
JB
May 25, 2021 at 3:15 pmSo it’s an older truck and trailer, insurance will give you very little money for that. No insurance company is going to give $30,000 when its valued at $7,000 so he is way short on funds to replace it. Learn how insurance works or doesn’t work before bitching about it!
Me? I'm torn...
May 25, 2021 at 11:28 amJust like Rob Eaton, this is so strange to me. First off, I’m a WAY huger fan of Mike than Rob (something to do with actually being an original musician), but it is the same situation. Both cases are clearly situations where a professional musician (and these two have been around) should 100% be insured to cover these situations. Come on, these aren’t buskers on the street. And who’s to say they don’t file claims and profit handsomely. I guess more power to them, but gotta ding your karma a bit if that is your thinking. This is really no different than if my van/car/house/whatever got in an accident, but I’m just a schlub no one knows about, so my gofundme page would probably only get about 10 bucks. Very odd. All the best Mike (go pound sand, Rob).
Brainstorm
May 24, 2021 at 6:12 pmSome people are assholes, as you can plainly see… We love you Uncle Mike!!
Morph
May 24, 2021 at 4:55 pmSeriously, I wondered the same thing. “Let me use your money to get back on my feet and then pocket the insurance $”. I never thought of this when I was in a hit and run.
Loose Lucy
May 24, 2021 at 3:51 pmSo the 30k is to cover the labor, time and love that are irreplaceable? I am just trying to determine what insurance wont cover before I send you money.