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also Sergio can make pickups built to spec ... you can get the old vintage jangley sound or the modern louder thicker sound ... Sergio is in Europe ...

No, I mean Hellfart. In english, it is something I do after eating a greasy meal. (Sorry!) On a trip to Belgium a few years ago, I learned that Dutch and Flemish are fairly easy to understand if one can speak english and german. Is fart the same as the die Fahrt (a trip) in German? I am guessing that hell is the same as the German hell (bright, full of light).

Another thing I learned is that the finest beer in the world is made in Belgium. Period. The germans make some great beer but the belgians have raised the art to another level.

And what beers did you like most in Belgium, Ted? When I was there I got hooked on Leffe products. I'm more of a light beer drinker, so the Leffe Blonde was one of my faves. I liked the Leffe Trippel also. Leffe is big over there like Miller over here, so I'm sure it has its detractors.

Leffe is great stuff. I had a lot of the smaller pub beers in Antwerp. I also sampled a few of the monastary beers. Those Belgian monks know a thing or two about brewing, let me tell you.

Hehe... Hell yeah!

Leffe is indeed very famous. As there's also Grimbergen or Tongerlo... easily distributed through pubs. In supermarkets or specialised pubs, you can find a whole lot more! I cal tell you! Those beer were originaly brewed in Abbeys, but nowadays breweries took over this process. there are only appr. 7 beers left brewed by Monks called the "Trappisten". It's a special 'label', so we have Abbey-beer vs. Trappisten-bier...

But than we have lots of local-breweries making their own specialities, or other big breweries specialised in blonde beer with a high alcohol percentage (like Duvel or Judas)... hmm hmm

And Hellfart was used in the English way, no german or dutch influences there In origin it was my nickname when I had a metal-magazine back in the days. But I still use it nowadays, even when I grew more into rock and stonerrock.

After having my first belgian beer, I was convinced that that the brewers of Belgium should be awarded the Nobel Prize. Unfortunately, the Nobel people would not return my calls.....

I flew into your airport in Brussels in 1981 on the way to Germany, I thought we were going to land in a cow pasture.

One of the Berlin airports, Tegel is quite small too. You would swear that you were about to land in an industrial complex. CDG in Paris is a nice, big airport.

My friend from Düsseldorf brought back several bottles of Trappisten on that trip. He assured me it was the necktar of the gods. I say it is better. We sampled it into the wee hours of the night.

Nothing used to beat flying into the old Hong Kong airport "Kai Tak".

As you'd land from the town side toward the harbour, you circle over and through some low hills with aparments all over them, and then drop real fast. At this point the 747 is lower than the apartment buildings on either side, and continues to drop, you could literally see folks in their homes as you were landing. Always a white knuckle experience for the first timers !!!

Then once you touched down it was full reverse thrust to prevent the aircraft from overshooting the runway and landing in the harbour. In the 4 years I was there there were a couple if instances when a China airlines aircraft wouldn't quite make it and would take a nose dive into the harbour !!!! Always better to fly Cathay Pacific, or United !!!

When I flew to Belgium that time the pilot got on the intercom and said very casually: "We're going to use a little reverse thrust bla bla bla" and he did it and I thought for sure the plane was going to vibrate apart, this was in the air, I have never experienced anything that scary in a plane since.

Landing on the island of Roatan in Honduras is a bit harrowing as well. The runway (singular) is very short. Landing there must beat the hell out the planes (757's).

Well... this is me and my Ric


Have found the Seymour Duncan SRB-1b pickups in Belgium... Will see if I can get my hand on a Ric 4003 bridge pick-up; but I fear it's not that easy here in Belgium

Hey...That´s Cliff Burton!!!!!

One more thing a lot of 70's 4001's are not set up right and the pickups seem to be far from the strings, which makes a huge difference sometimes. Make sure the neck is nice and straight. You can also raise the neck pickup by taking the washers and grommets off of it, that will make a big difference in the volume also. Run, don't walk from those Seymours! haha!

Noco, you need straplocks before you need a new pickup! Great action shot. Thanks, and welcome to the forum.