New Orleans-based indie rockers Sweet Crude have been crisscrossing the country in support of their debut album, Creatures, but the experience took a bad turn when the band’s gear and luggage were stolen in San Francisco on Monday. Evidently, the famously bilingual group was enjoying a San Francisco Giants baseball game when their tour van was broken into. Stolen items included laptops, instruments, prescription medicine (which is difficult to acquire on the road) and more.

Despite this huge setback, the band soldiered on, even making it to the next day’s gig at Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, CA. There they opened for Tank and the Bangas, who invited them on stage to collaborate and encouraged the audience to help out their friends.

According to NBC Bay Area, Sweet Crude was ready to call it quits on their tour after the incident, but the group’s management and family members convinced them to keep going. They also got some help from total strangers (someone loaned Sam Craft a violin, for instance), and were able to buy new computers.

“We were able to pull off some impossible feats today thanks to our management pushing us,” Craft told NBC Bay Area. “Thanks to Lagunitas for being nice and giving us clothes to wear.”

“For every horrible person out there, there are a thousand amazing people,” he added. “This is what it teaches you; we are grateful.”

Sweet Crude will continue their tour tomorrow when they head to California’s High Sierra Music Festival. However, some of their friends back home will doing their part to help the group this weekend, as a benefit show at Gasa Gasa is now scheduled for this Saturday, July 1.

UPDATE: A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the band get back on its feet and keep its tour going.