Mk-IV AUTOGRAPH CARD - The Flip Side

click to enlarge18-12-2015: Since everything over a handful is wasted, Regular rocker kept a mysterious afterburner of Marcel Ebbelaar's Autograph Card posted a few months ago. Apart from a shoe print, it reads that the venue 't Krogt had been burglared prior to the concert. The damage added up to 3,000.- guilders in missing appliances and 1,000.- in necessary repairs. As a gesture of charity, the bands listed for that day agreed to play for free, so that all the ticket revenues could be used as a down payment on new gear. Ain't that sympathetic?

Moreover, it turns out that it was a festival with 6 bands and Bodine was listed as (this is where the mystery starts) Axel Langemeyer, Jeronimo and Arjen Lucassen--supported by "Fast Bas" on the drums.

Fast WHO?

Fast Bas.

Whatever.

I guess we'll never know, since the autographs are eveidence that Bodine performed in full line up. Also, Arjen Lucasssen was nick-named 'De Luux', which is quite different from 'Iron Anthony'. Well, we know now that neither of the nick-names stuck to the Artist Successively Called Ayreon.