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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GnometownHero" data-source="post: 4245099" data-attributes="member: 47828">No I lended it to Hungarian guitar wiz Steve Balassi when he played with me, he took it home to Hungary with him when his Visa ran out, then flew back when he got another Visa but then US Customs at Ohare airport confiscated the Marshall 1987 and his Rocktron Prophesy effects unit that was racked together over a customs duty & fine BS they hit him with because he copped attitude with them during the interview. He did the programming work in Hungary and was bringing the finished product to demo to Rocktron. Customs officer said that constituted work without the correct Visa for R&D by a foreign national. He  called BS in his mad Hungarian style, they took the rig and made him fly back to Budapest. Two back to back 18hr flights. Lesson learned, do not cop attitude with US Customs.Bummer because he had a thousand hours of programming patches he designed for the Prophesy.Rocktron even had a patch catagory called Mr. Balassi In their software and Steve ended up missing out on future employment for Rocktron because all his work was with Customs.</blockquote>