Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 last week, SirHC was in Belgium a meeting was arranged with Discofreq and myself in Leuven town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 so at 1pm, we got together in front of the Leuven train station, and we were going to visit Lord Bizarre at 14h30, so we decided to have a Stella firstWe were close to a place called "Den Ouden Tijd", a 24/7 place where I recorded a video with my previous band ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 Sir HC brought a succulent selection of his vintage dirt pedals, a ROSAC distortion blender, a MAESTRO FZ-1, a rare VOX distortion, a SEKOVA fuzz and ... the prototype of the Haunting Mids pedal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 after we had a couple of beers, it was time to go to Lord Bizarre ...during our march, we briefly stopped at the local music store to check out some ZVex pedals, and then to Lordbizarre's museum, his lordship would show us his collection of weird and wonderful guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 Lord Bizarre, a wonderful character himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 The place looked much tidier than the last time I visited his museum ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 the tour started, Lord Bizarre has great stories to tell about all the guitars on display, and he just started to warm up, the doorbell rang ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 there was a lady at the door, an intriguing one as well, she joined the tour and I was really impressed by her, she knew a lot about guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 we were all staring at her as she gave her technical comments about LordBizarre's guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 on with the tour, there was so much to discover this is a 1965 Danka, made in Poland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alteredsounds Posted June 19, 2007 Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 {censored}ing great thread post quicker bieke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 the magnificent Orfeus Skurril Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 what a great design, it has the pick-up selector buttons snugly fit onto the side of the body Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 Klira made in Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 Fasan Holiday also made in Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 these old guitars used DIN plugs, Lord Bizarre told us that german manufacturers were only allowed to use the german standard DIN plugs, DIN stands for Deutsche Industrie Norm, and that eastern european and soviet guitars also used this standard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lanefair Posted June 19, 2007 Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 I'd kiss Lord Bizzare for a Vintage Guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 an oddly shaped czech made Jolana Basso IX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 so it nearly took us an hour to walk the 5 meters through the hallway, to reach the stairway, passing a couple of beautiful soviet Tonika guitars on our way up ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 on the stairs, I couldn't help noticing a couple of unloved pedals, I paused a moment to pay some respect to these artefacts, but Discofreq assured me that I would get to see enough of these PUE pedals later on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DiscoFreq Posted June 19, 2007 Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 on the stairs, I couldn't help noticing a couple of unloved pedals, I paused a moment to pay some respect to these artefacts, but Discofreq assured me that I would get to see enough of these PUE pedals later on Which reminds me, you didn't test the PUE Small Phaser yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 also on the stairs, there was the rare EKO Multitone pedal this one needs to be fixed, and it at least was moved three steps up since my last visit (Lordbizarre's workbench is on the first floor) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DiscoFreq Posted June 19, 2007 Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 I need to save that pedal from retirement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 also on the stairs was this rather nice looking fuzzwah that I did not notice before, I think the brand was Przybvszewskiego but don't quote me on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted June 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2007 I need to save that pedal from retirement well, I think it's actually not from LordBizarre's collection, he once told me it was given to him for repair, but that was a year ago (perhaps it is added to the collection meanwhile) I also had to be very patient when his Lordship was servicing my Dynacord DA-15 amp, in fact, on his site it still says he's working on it (I've had it back for a year now and it works great, the whole vibrato circuit was cut out of the circuitry, but he promised me he could fix it, and he did deliver). Since then, he also did great repairs on my beloved Farfisa amp and my Dynacord Tube Tape Echo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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