Jan Akkerman
Colin Harper, The Guitar Magazine, November 1997
ALL OVER the world there are individuals trading copies of grainy videos from European television, cassettes of horrendously obscure old records by people with unpronounceable names (if always one important name in the "special guest" credits) and useful information about hotels in Holland.
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