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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | For those of you that haven't read this book, it'a a great read. Takes only one evening to get thru the entire book. Since I've already read it, there's really no need for me to keep the book. It would just collect dust.
If you're interested in checking it out, just paypal me postage and I'll throw the book in an envelope and send it to you. All I ask is that you pass it along to another OFCer when you're done. Very educational about the guitars we all love.
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Location: Upper Left USA | SJ,
A couple of things:
Can you sign it?
If you send it to me I will sign it.
I will then post for the next Member to sign and pass.
This way it should be worth about -$495 when we are done! |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Great Idea Mwoody...then I'll put it on Ebay with a reserve of $500! No wonder everyone turns to you for answers.
Actually, your idea is not as dumb as it sounds. It would be fun to see how many signatures, and how many places the book has been. At the end, we could total up the miles. Sounds like fun to me. Let's gitt'r goin!
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Location: Upper Left USA | I don't know if they actually turn to me for answers or if I just can't hold back my two cents worth!!
Well, actually I guess I do know.
Since I have have a softcover copy as well - who would like to receive my copy to play along with?
Next poster? |
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Location: SoCal | Send it to me last - warning, I'd be real tempted to keep it... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Send it to me, I will sign it "good luck to all, Elvis" and sell it on Ebay for a small fortune and buy you all your own copy.
Think Big!!
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Location: Upper Left USA | "There's the rub!"
This will take some degree of honor and faith. No chain letter promises here, just trust and comraderie.
To Muddy Lemon Parker it is! |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | OK...let's make this simple. Anyone not owning this book but interested, send me an email with your address. I'll throw it in an envelope and get the ball rolling. |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | OK...The Ovation Fan Club Book is on its way to sunny Florida (to David Wilson) for what I hope turns out to be a very long journey. For those of you participating in the "Traveling Ovation Book-On-Wheels" project, mailing cost was $4.90.
I'd like to see the book end up in a couple out of the way places like France, Mexico and England before it's all said and done. We have 3150 members, how many signatures can we get? |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Don't Forget to get air miles to Alaska. There are a couple OFC members up here. :D |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Alaskan Fly:
Florida to Alaska...that should rack up some miles! And Alaska is a far away land. Sounds good.
Are you called Fly Guy because you're so cool or because you enjoy fishing. Since you spend so much time on the board, I'm going to go with "fishing"...final answer.
Also, what is a Pig Nose anyway? Is that an amp or a guitar? |
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Location: Waurika OK | Jim
How is this going to work? Are we going to send the book back to you or just send it on to the next name on the list? |
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Location: Tampa, FL | I'm kind of assuming that the 'book' has an included list with it. I think we should sign it (possibly including OFC names so we don't endup sending it to one member multiple times). If necessary, we could have a single contact point (stellarjim perhaps?)to coordinate if we run out of names on the list. But with any luck, and a little responsible perserverance, this could become a perpetual thing. Do the math. 3000 stops, a week per stop (includes time to read an transit to the next stop) and your looking at around 60 years. I'm pretty sure new members will accumulate faster than they can be put on the list. But this could become an amusing thread as the book makes it's rounds. Let's see how it turns out...
Glad it started out in FL.. I may get a shot to see the beginning |
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Location: south east Michigan | Probably the best way would be a system where the person recieves it then pays to pass it on. This is cool. If it pans out half as well as expected it would be nice to see the book's last stop be at CWK's shelf.
Maybe there could be a dedicated thread that tracks the book and says where it is to be sent next. |
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Location: SoCal | How about taking it to the Texas get-together and the OFC Tour...maybe we could also get Rick, Kim, John, and some of the other guys and gals at the factory that support us so well.
When it has run its course (if still in one piece), then auction it off for the benefit of the OFC. We have the OFC Store and individual contributions but we all know this is not cheap to run...lot of work and money from Al and Miles.
Of course, can you imagine what it would look like with even 500 signatures (with at least $2,475 of postage)? Maybe we should all just donate the $4.95 to the OFC??
Ever think about buying the book in bulk, endorsing it as donated by the OFC w/url, donating to the libraries that don't have the book? |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | stellarjim-I like to think I'm cool, but the name is from my Fly Fishing Guide Service. "The Fly Guy" "Flies and Guides for Fishing Alaska". It's my summer gig. I'm a data management supervisor for a big oil company up here most of the time. Oh and a Pig Nose is a little portable amp (or an ethnic delicacy from what I hear). I'll go with small amp as MY final answer...
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Location: Upper Left USA | You guys are an incredible bunch of creative thinkers! I was away from work today and therefore missed a lot of posting and discussion. :rolleyes:
I missed Jim's email until later.
Here is what I did:
I started a roster, signed my book (purchased from MrGolf007 via the OFC) and included a little trinket and a note. I shipped it off to some guy in Los Cruces, NM. :cool:
It is my hope that Bailey will sign it, keep and cherish the trinket, attach/enclose a memento of his choosing and send it to another OFC Member.
Mail it, pass it, bring it to OFC gatherings, ship it in a sold guitar case or whatever! Just keep it moving!
Should there be multiple books circulating around? Absolutely! And if 12 or so show up at Cliff's house on his birthday - won't that be just a lovingly beautiful annoyance to deal with!
I submit to you the challenge that no book is left sitting for too long. It will be hard to let go of some of these but think about what might be in the mailbox tomorrow! Like our guitars they are only good if they are used! It is this legacy and the fellowship of each other that brings us together.
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Location: Upper Left USA | And Bailey - We know that Elvis is dead. He never would have let Michael marry his daughter! |
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Location: Central Oregon | Since I'm already on several peoples lists anyway, I may as well be on this one. I'd like to read that book when one becomes available. My name doesn't take up too much room & I promise not to write with a crayon this time. |
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Location: Chicagoland | Same here. I may be young, but I can read and my mommy just taught me how to lick an envelope yesterday. :p
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Nils
When I see it you may be next!
Elvis is NOT dead, he had multiple sessions of plastic surgery, disposed of a very popular black child star with a voice that was almost feminine, took over the black child star's children's amusement park, married his own daughter, found out he was about to be charged with child molestation, and got a drunken, down on his luck San Francisco politician to take his place and escaped to New Mexico. The replacement is wallowing in what he had always desired, Recognition! Now Elvis sits up late at night at his computer spinning tall tales for a gullible group of middle aged Simon and Garfunkle fans as he sips 50 year old Mississipi whisky.
Since my baby left me
I found a new place to dwell
Down at the end of gringo street
At old rockin' gods hotel
Muddy Lemon Graceland Bailey :cool: :p |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Alaskan Fly Guy
I have a Pignose G40V that my son gave me, and it has become my favorite amp for my Viper and my '66 Fender Mustang with Seymour Duncan pickups. That amp has a range of sound from nice country to growling screaming rock, (not that I would ever play growling, screaming rock). I love that amp.
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by Bailey:
Nils
When I see it you may be next!
Thanks Bailey. Let me know. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Nils
Got it today!! Haven't opened it yet.
Send me your address and I'll get it to you as soon as I look it over and endorse it with a sign that it has been to New Mexico.
Thanks MWoody
PS: I wish some of those people I gave Cadillacs to in the 60's would send me one back. Also, my Jacko disguise has REALLY backfired, I ran into Eddie Fisher hiding in New Mexico like me, his eyesight is gone and he came on to me like gangbusters thinking I was Liz Taylor. A couple of verses of "Blue Suede Shoes" saved my ass.
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Great Bailey, thanks. I'll email my snail mail address. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | MWoody et al
I finished reading "The Book" and enjoyed it immensely. It covers some years and Ovation history that I was aware of from the ads and the guitars in the stores, but did not know what was happening behind the scenes. I was an avid reader of guitar magazines in the late 70's and early 80's, and a hanger around at music stores to the extent of attending some LA NAMMs as a guest of Poway Music. Since I had a Viper, I followed the development of the acoustics but never could afford one as I was supporting a bluegrass band with PA systems and mandolins etc.
Anyway, it is a great book and I can see why CWKII has the inside story on almost every thing Ovation. It raises the question in MY mind of "Why wasn't an Ovation resonator guitar developed and marketed?" I suppose we will never know.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I wasn't into them then.
Next question. |
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well, it was not finished until a long while later. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by cwk2:
I wasn't into them then.
Next question.
Who made the reception desk? |
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Location: NJ | The reception desk was a stock guitar . . .
. . . they just hired a really, REALLY, small receptionist . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | OK Fellas, put me on the list! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | THE RECEPTION DESK!!!
That was my choice for the LX series, I dreamed of the bass sound of that guitar, when I wasn't dreaming of the receptionist.
The only guitar that would have saved lives on the Titanic, think about it, it might save the receptionist when the environment turns upside down as shown in that movie.
I dream of walking into that reception area and body picking, it's too big for finger pickin', a thunderous chorus of "Wildwood Flower" in an audio range that instigates sexual arousal in receptionists to the point of ignoring that I am old and ugly.
Deny it if you like, but you all have the same dream.
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Location: Central Oregon | I'm awaiting the arrival of The Book. Bailey sent it off & it should be arriving any time. Can't wait to see my trinket.
Moodi p.i. is next on the list. Please email me your snail mail at some point Paul. I have your trinket all ready to go. It's distinctively 'Central Oregon', known the world over & I'll bet you've never seen one! In fact, I would be very surprised if any of you have ever seen one. It's also totally worthless! |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I wonder how many times the 'Book' is going to cross the country. |
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Location: SoCal | cow pie?? just make sure it is dry.... |
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Location: Valparaiso, FL | wel, it leaves FL today on it's way to WA, so it's crossing the country in one leap. :) Great book. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "It's distinctively 'Central Oregon', known the world over & I'll bet you've never seen one! In fact, I would be very surprised if any of you have ever seen one. It's also totally worthless!"
Perfect! |
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
cow pie?? just make sure it is dry.... Nah. You can get those anywhere. The ONLY place you could get one of these is from Central Oregon & new ones haven't been available for 20 years. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Guys... any chance of getting a UK name on the list? Obviously I'll refund the last person's postage, and send it back really quickly.
Just thought it would be a scary way to get the mileage through the roof!!
No worries if not, just a thought to add to the novelty of the idea...
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Location: Upper Left USA | I would like to see the UK contingent start a book and then ship it out when you think you all had a pass at it! It would be more economic.
Many books could be circulating! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Hi,
Bailey, They don't let wiskey get to be fifty years old in Missippi. :D |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | MikeW
I'm talking about some right out of the still that I bought in 1955 and later hid in my mansion at Graceland. If the people who investigated my "death" had found some of that and had it analyzed, they certainly would have listed it as one of the causes of death if taken in any significant quantity. Just a hint of it's effectiveness, every time I took a swaller, my legs would shake, my hips would gyrate, my lips would curl and I would shout out the debbil's music. This caused many healthy girls to shriek and faint.
Jerry Lee Lewis had the same bootlegger, as did many black Mississippi "dirty" blues players that I admired and copied.
I will never reveal where that 50 gallon Oak barrel is hidden (40 paces through the gate, stagger 30 paces right, 70 paces zig zag to large magnolia tree, stick bung (or tongue) in knothole on NE side 4.5 feet from ground (Barrel is imbedded in tree trunk), no torture could ever get that out of me and cause a run on Graceland by young wannabees.
Yes 50 year old Mississippi whisky does exist.
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Originally posted by MWoody:
I would like to see the UK contingent start a book and then ship it out when you think you all had a pass at it! It would be more economic.
Many books could be circulating! Good thought, that man. Leave that with me, and I'll see if I can dig up a copy from somewhere...
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | This just in from our correspondent (Whippy Floogenfluster) at Graceland:
A polyglot, crapped out group of ancient and well used vehicles, some with camper shells and some with the detritus of years of living trailing behind, pulled up this morning when the museum opened and various Elvis impersonators got out and walked 40 paces through the gate, staggered through a pattern as if memorized and zig zagged towards a large magnolia tree. They then appeared to sexually attack the tree, and attempt to take away sap in various containers of dubious and reprehensible appearance. They all then left the grounds and as they sampled their "sap", their legs twitched, their hips swiveled and their lips curled as they shouted the Debbil's music. Healthy young ladies shrieked and fainted as they saw them, mostly they shrieked with derisive laughter and fainted from laughing so hard.
Some of the Elvis impersonators were carrying an excellent type of guitar with a round back that almost made up in sound for the ridiculous vocals. The mode of dress semed to lean toward mauve shirts.
Whippy Floogenfluster signing off from the most unusual story I have covered, Does anybody there know what the initials OFC stand for?? |
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