RE: Echoplex in Belgium? 2nd try

[murff@bellsouth.net]

|You also might try any Mars location. They all carry the Echoplex.
>Mars is a music store chain here in the US. They have a web site.
<www.marsmusic.com >. They do international sales. They may not be able to
order one from Oberheim at this time but I know that they carry them at all
their locations (about 20 of them) and they could transfer one from one of
their locations to sell to you.
>murff
>


>>| >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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