RE: Echoplex in Belgium? 2nd try

["Javier Miranda V." <gnominus@earthling.net>]

Dude, just try http://www.8thstreet.com; I'm sure they sell worldwide.  
They have it.  I just bought one from them.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Serge Devadder [mailto:serge.devadder@planetinternet.be]
| Sent: Saturday 12 September 1998 3:40 PM
| To: 'Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'
| Subject: Echoplex in Belgium? 2nd try
| 
| 
| Hello loopers,
| 
| Since I didn t find my mail in the digest, I post it a second 
| time with some additions:
| 
| After reading about the Echoplex in the Looper's pages, I really 
| wanted such a thing. But after a few weeks hunting in Belgian 
| music-shops around Brussels and Antwerp, I have come to believe 
| the EDP is like the Loch Ness monster: it's picture is on the 
| web, everybody's talking about it, but does it really exist...??? 
| No one sells it.
| 
| As soon as I mention the word Oberheim, vendors get this worried 
| expression on their face. Many complain about Oberheim service 
| and refuse to list the stuff. Like Claude Lassonde in Montreal, I 
| was told the story that Oberheim no longer lists the EDP. 
| Moreover Oberheim seems to have a peculiar idea of customer 
| service. None of my mails get answered, and the Echoplex-page is 
| indeed still on the Gibson website. I do not know of many 
| succesful companies that ignore requests saying "I like your 
| product! I want it! I need it! Please, please sell it to me!". 
| Those that do so, end up in Dilbert cartoons.
| 
| In any case I am surprised at how few looping devices are 
| available. With all those experimental musicians outthere who 
| worship Fripp, how come you need to kill for a JamMan or EDP? Not 
| everyone can afford a TC Electronics box, and judging by the 
| stories I hear, even the smallest shops get 2-3 requests for 
| looping devices every week. There's a market out there but nobody 
| seems to want it...
| 
| Since I first tried to post this last week, I've seen that even 
| in sunny California finding an EDP is not a sinecure. Does any 
| European looper know of a distributor for the EDP in a city near 
| Brussels (Paris? Amsterdam? Cologne? London?...). Thanks!
| 
| Serge Devadder
| Brussel, Belgium
| serge.devadder@planetinternet.be
| 
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