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| This song is one of my favorite classics by Jim Croce and others such as "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Don't mess around with Jim" where I have seen videos of him playing and it looks as though he
and the guy who did an accoustic lead to those songs played an ovation of some kind.
Anybody know if Time in a bottle was done with an ovation also? The video I have seen of that song only shows a bunch of Jim Croce home movies..... |
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| Double post, sorry. |
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| For your enjoyment here is a clip from you tube where Jim Croce did "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" live in the 70's.
What I found interesting, was that he explained how he came to write the song.
By the way...all you ovation geeks....what are the two ovation models they are playing in the video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5exYqe5_M |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | For most live work (and videos, DVDs) Jim and Maury played Ovation Legends. But the recording on the LP was done using Martins, according to an old article in Guitar Player. Dave |
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| Originally posted by Tupperware:
For most live work (and videos, DVDs) Jim and Maury played Ovation Legends. But the recording on the LP was done using Martins, according to an old article in Guitar Player. Dave Yeah, it seems they played different accoustic guitars on the album. But live they seemed to play ovations.
Here is "operator where they seem to play martins instead of ovations live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8XctJKo&feature=related |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I haven't watched my dvd in awhile, but I think they played Legends and Martins live. There is no video of Time or I'll Have to Say on the dvd. Croce also has another guitar in many of his pictures, but I can't remember what it is. He did one or two songs with alternate tunings, so he might have had the Martin tuned to a drop D for those. I'm pretty sure that Operator is in standard tuning, though.
Stephent28 sent me the most accurate tab of Time that I've seen. |
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Location: ms | He recorded a lot with a Gibson. |
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Location: Jet City | What Gibson? |
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Location: Nashville TN. | http://www.ovationtribute.com/Ovation%20Promo/Jim%20Croce%20Promo.h... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Damon67:
What Gibson? A big acoustic one. I thought it was a Gibson in a couple of famous photos of him, but I have enough trouble with Ovation models and only recently learned to identify some of the Gibson electrics. |
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Question...was Jim Croce's "Time in a bottle" done with an ovation?