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Whack in the U.S.S.R.

here has the distinction of having been smuggled out of Belgium some 20 years ago by Joe Bigley, of Wilmington, North Carolina. A guitarist and frequent business traveler to Belgium, Joe was in Leuven when he happened by a guitar shop/museum filled with oddball axes from around the world and run by the self-proclaimed Lord Bizarre. Joe was so taken by what he

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