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Location: PDX | Howdy folks. found this place while searching for Ovation serial numbers -- popped in to browse -- cool place, lot's of good info.
Just picked up a 1990, 1867 Lengend this week. I've been playing a beat to s%$# 1965 Guild M20 i've had since high school -- love that little thing -- but i thought, what the heck, tax return is coming, $500 i can spare, a new guitar is in order.
So i've been fingering this new toy (get your minds out of the gutter folks), sounds just great, i mean great. At first it sounded, well, plastic -- then i plugged it in -- wow!
The search function here has already answered my first question -- damn thing slips, what to do?
The second thing i found rummaging around was a complete, and pleasant surprise; Kaki King. Never heard of her before -- that woman is nothing short of revolutionary. Absolutely phenomenal.
Well that's it.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Welcome aboard GH1.
With the hint of humor running throughout your post, you will fit in quite well! |
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Location: SoCal | Where's PDX? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Welcome gh1
Sounds like you've got things here sussed out. Little fun, a little info, a little teasing, a fair amount of respect for great players and great instruments....Ovations and the one or two others that don't suck ;)
Oh, and many of us think we're witty.
Most are at least half right!
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Oh, and many of us think we're witty.
Most are at least half right!
:rolleyes: Which half? :confused: :D
BTW Welcome aboard. :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Paul, I think I was the last one to ask where PDX was and I think I was told Portland. I can't think of another place where the residents use the initials of their airport to identify the city.
Tell my if I'm right, gh1. Many of us haven't experience the slip off the leg phenomenon. Personally, I haven't played anything but Ovations since 1977, so it might just be what you get used to.
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
Which half? :confused: :D
BTW Welcome aboard. :) The half wits, of course :D
PDX = Portland, Oregon
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | DIA
and has anyone else noticed that we are starting to get an influx of northwesterners :eek: |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Right on for the Left Upper Corner!
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | And aussies
and Europeans
and, well, a good idea just gets around dun't it?
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Location: closely held secret | Ok, gh1, which part of town are you in. Chances are good I either go thru it on my way to work or on my way home. |
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Location: Waurika OK | If you once lived in LAX, but moved, would that make you EXLAX? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'll be in PDX for Easter. Unless we get rained out of golf on Saturday, I won't have any time to look you guys up. If I bring the 1537, do you want to come find me, Waskel? |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Waskel:
Ok, gh1, which part of town are you in. Chances are good I either go thru it on my way to work or on my way home. NE Belmont/Hawthorne area. Work over in the NW industrial area. You hail from Portland? Cool.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by stephent28:
DIA
and has anyone else noticed that we are starting to get an influx of northwesterners :eek: What's wrong with that?
I do find it funny, and some of you guys (gh1, Waskel, Woody) can back me up on this, that the NW is generally regarded as a whole separate section of the country that really has no connection with the rest of it.
I grew up in SoCal (LAX would be close), and even there when someone mentions anything in WA, OR, & ID, people give you this funny look like "oh, yeah, there are people there - wierd." :confused:
BTW, technically I'd be SEA, but until recently I lived around the corner from TIW (any guesses?) |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | TIW must be Tacoma, didn't realize they had their own airport, since SEA is SeaTac.
Welcome, gh1, I'm out on the far-west side in Forest Grove.
Mark, enjoy your visit, but you better pack your raingear... Saturday is looking pretty moist -- they're even talking about snow in the mountains. We're hoping the weather will keep the crowds down, as we're taking my visiting mother-in-law down to the Tulip Festival in Woodburn on Saturday.. the tulips finally came out strong this week so it should be a good show. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Our Canadian friend: Oh, and many of us think we're witty.
Most are at least half right!
I am at least that right.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by edensharvest:
I do find it funny, and some of you guys (gh1, Waskel, Woody) can back me up on this, that the NW is generally regarded as a whole separate section of the country that really has no connection with the rest of it.
And to be honest, we prefer it that way. May I see your passport, please?
Mark, they're not just talking about snow in the mountains... they're talking about 2 ft this weekend.
gh1, 2 houses ago I lived on 47th between Stark/Belmont for about 3 years. Both my wife and I grew up in Portland. I also work in NW! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm a little concerned about the trip back Sunday. They are even talking about snow in the valley floor here Sunday night. That means we're sure to get some in the Blues on the way back. They have a driving range with a roof over the tee boxes in Hillsboro. Very Oregonish. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Wow, you're gonna be just down the road from me.. wish I had my Redwood to share with you but it's still at the mothership. Oh well, there will be other opportunities.
Do take care over Meacham/Cabbage Hill.. I always dread that stretch of road when I go through there in the wintertime. At least you shouldn't have to worry about ice in the gorge!
Hmm.. who was exploring that whole Vista House deal???
Print this out and slip it into your wallet: from ODOT tripcheck.com:
Take care! |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | [/qb]And to honest, we prefer it that way. May I see your passport, please? [/QB]
Passport? :eek:
Tacoma is close; TIW is Tacoma International West, actually in Gig Harbor.
Oh, gh1, welcome to the asylum! :cool: |
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Location: closely held secret | May I see your passport, please?
Oh, not you, Andrew. You're a citizen. Just those barbarians outside the borders of Idawashgon. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the same people responsible for the $5.00 cup of coffee...
....it ain't people gettin' in I'm worried about. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | He has several California connections but he can pronounce Puyallup and Spokane without messing up! |
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Location: closely held secret | What about Cle Elum, Sammamish, Mukilteo and Snoqualmie? |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
the same people responsible for the $5.00 cup of coffee...
....it ain't people gettin' in I'm worried about. Perhaps you feel a bit like my friend here -- the big man from New Jersey.
Warning possible NSFW content: language is a bit coarse around the edges.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | KLEE-lum
Suhm- Mam-ish
Muck-il-dio
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Location: closely held secret | Snock-wal-mee... yeah, that's it. Very good, jeff! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | The real test is if they can say Sequim and if they can tell when the mountains are out!
I used to be that Linguists declared the western sound to be "accent free" but over the last few years there has been a definable straining in the speech of Western Worshintonian's. Kind of a "Bill Clintonesque" scratch proliferated by soccer mom's across the NW. Wether or not it is related to Starbucks Coffee consumption remains to be seen. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Here's the secret passwords:
clay-Ell-uhm
snow-Kwah-la-mee
Muck-ull-TEE-oh
sah-MAM-ish
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Location: closely held secret | Stop it, Michael! You're giving it all away! Now anybody will be able to pretend they're from here...
Once they figure out a reason why they would want to... |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I'm always surprised to see how many people have trouble with Willamette. You'd think they'd cover that when they are prepping new newscasters! Or maybe they always slip it into their first TV appearances as a bit of a "right of passage."
Jeff, the $5 coffee is to finance our secret plot to secede from the Union. shhh.. don't tell, but please keep buying the coffee.
Portland aka PDX aka Rose City aka PuddleTown aka StumpTown aka "Little Beirut"
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by dvd:
Jeff, the $5 coffee is to finance our secret plot to secede from the Union. shhh.. don't tell, but please keep buying the coffee. Seceeding? I thought we were annexing the rest of it...
Originally posted by dvd:
Portland aka PDX aka Rose City aka PuddleTown aka StumpTown aka "Little Beirut" You forgot the official town motto... "The City That Works". I laugh out loud everytime I drive by a city truck with that on the side and a couple of , um, weight-challenged city workers on the tailgate, eating jelly doughnuts. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If you guys are as busy tomorrow as you are today, we'll have plenty of time to meet. Still trying to decide which guitar to bring. Sounds like I'll use a guitar lots more than I'll use the golf clubs.
I have a friend in "Skwim". I had trouble finding it on the map. He was from Boise, via Iowa. License plate, "Hawkeye." |
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Location: closely held secret | I am busy. Working from home and taking care of my wife.
It's not uncommon to see idiots golfing in the rain around here. Better bring your clubs... Not a good weekend for me to plan anything, Mark. Sorry, yet again.
I thought Hawkeye came from Crabtree Cove, Maine? |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Shouldn't they revise those trucks to say:
"The City that Works (see footnote)"
footnote: Unless you are referring to schools, city management, police integrity, water bills, etc, etc etc.
Hey, at least our state motto isn't, "Say WA!" |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by dvd:
Hey, at least our state motto isn't, "Say WA!" True. It should be, "What were we thinking when we elected him(or her)?"
Originally posted by Jeff W.:
last mo-he-can Well, yeah, but also a fine surgeon. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | But our State Song is Louie, Louie!
The only song with fewer known lyrics than Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"!
What is Weird Al up to these days? |
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Location: closely held secret | True, but we had both the Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the Raiders! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | You were nearly named the State of Jefferson!
Your State Song would be "Mov'in on up"! |
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Location: SoCal | and, Paul Revere's version of Louie Louie was the best...used to have both groups at street dances on a trailer as a stage. |
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Location: SoCal | you can always tell a native of Oregon or Washington...by the moss growing on the North side of the nose.
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gh1, do you play publicly at all, or just a hobbyist? [/QB] I let my wife listen every once in a while. :) Just a hobbyist, purely for self development and entertainment.
I've had a spotty past with the guitar. I've owned one since '67. Every couple of years i'd get on a 6 month kick -- get frustrated with lack of development -- quit. Repeat.
Three years ago i say's to self, "self you're getting kind of old. Do you want to be able to play that thing before you die?" To which i answered, "yes".
So i interveiwed with a number of teachers, picked one and have stuck with him. Great thing about teachers; 1)they teach (DOH!) 2)they engender accountability.
So i have been playing about, oh, 6 to 15 hours a week (depending on my schedule) for the last three years or so.
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Location: Upper Left USA | We had an Aunt that started walking 5 miles a day about 2 years ago.
We don't know where the hell she is now!
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | The secret to the $5.00 coffee is to buy a machine to make yours at home, and let the other dumb schmucks pay for the secession.
And, only in the NW do we understand the difference between the $5 Starbucks and the $1 mocha at the Costco food court! :eek:
For the record; it is WASH-ing-ton, NOT: WORSH-ing-ton.
Wish I could catch up with you guys - I'll be in Vancouver tomorrow working the farmer's market. So much for golf or guitar... |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Tony: Paul Revere's version of Louie Louie was the best I didn't know that song was that old. |
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