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Location: Stratford, Connecticut | Hello everybody!
Happiest of holidays!
It's been too long since I've posted here!
I hope all is well with everybody!
So...
Did anyone get anything nice from Santa this year?
Ovation or other?
I bought myself a couple nice Gretsch guitars that I had on layaway for about 2 years...
Nothing other than that though!
How about all ya'll?
All the best in 2o11 my friends!
MJK |
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Location: Ohio | 2 really good CD's
Santana Guitar Heaven
Clapton CLapton.... WOnderful arrangement of While my Guitar Gently Weeps with India Arie and Yo-Yo Ma |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Hey nikon, my Good Friend Raul Mata, his older Brother has been playing in Santana's band for 20 or so years, he use to play with Earth Wind and Fire. Enjoy the Cd it's awesome. :) |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yeah..
I'm very pleased with the Zoom Q3HD.
Up to 1080p video with the zoom quality sound recorder.
But most of all, it's easy it use. I've bought and then sold a couple units because the operating menues were fragmented, overly complicated, and difficult to navigate.
This will be a good learning tool for recording practice sessions and gigs and will also work well for vacations and family use. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Not one, but TWO, Feedback Busters. Y'know, those rubber gizmoes you put in the soundhole? (SWMBO had a suggestion for a different insertion)
Beats a lump of coal, anyway.
Note to self: Get off Santa's "dookey list"!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | No presents this year since the kids are gone.
We gave to a couple of worthwhile charities instead.
I do plan to get one of those Zoom Q3HD recorders later in 2011. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by seesquare:
Not one, but TWO, Feedback Busters. Y'know, those rubber gizmoes you put in the soundhole? (SWMBO had a suggestion for a different insertion)
Beats a lump of coal, anyway.
Note to self: Get off Santa's "dookey list"!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Wow! Was THAT ever fraught with innuendo!
Oh, yes...a ukelele for me, and a Wii for Alex, and clothing and posters for Diana. Santa made us all happy. |
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Location: Eaton, Indiana | Joop |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | If we are talking about me ... Eminence Swamp Thang!
Of course, the Thang's bolts don't match up to a 1980 circa Japanese combo, so I had to pull the cover off, remove the bolts, redrill and reinstall the bolts, recover the speaker cloth.
Tonight I hope to bolt the baffle back on, and hook up the speaker. I'll let you know how it goes. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=250365355452
Jeff and Lisa got me one of these but in black, along with a fleece scarf covered with guitars. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | http://cgi.ebay.com/Ovation-Roundback-Blue-Acoustic-Guitar-Tie-Lape...
OK, let's try that again. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Covered with guitars? THAT has to be one BIIIIIIIIIIIIIG scarf! |
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Location: Colorado | Wife and kids ordered me a Harmony One remote control. I should get it tomorrow. Got some DR Sunbeams and winning scratch tickets from Santa, too!! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Originally posted by AlanM:
Covered with guitars? THAT has to be one BIIIIIIIIIIIIIG scarf! |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Just a little something in red... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | 1. An Ovation soft case for Jewel and Princess to share
2. A Dunlop capo
3. The cake plate that matches my antique English tea set (this one made me get all teary)
4. A gift certificate to Lowe's to buy paint for both bedrooms, which desperately need redoing.
The best gift is the news that my son and daughter-in-law are moving back from PA, so they will only be about 40 minutes away, as opposed to 2 hours...
A very good Christmas, indeed.
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Michael Joseph Kramer:
Hello everybody!
Happiest of holidays!
It's been too long since I've posted here!
I hope all is well with everybody!
So...
Did anyone get anything nice from Santa this year?
Ovation or other?
I bought myself a couple nice Gretsch guitars that I had on layaway for about 2 years...
Nothing other than that though!
How about all ya'll?
All the best in 2o11 my friends!
MJK I loved the "nothing other than the two Gretsch guitars..." thing. Wasn't that enough?!?!?
I LOVE my Gretsch 6117, but to have TWO MORE similar guitars would make it a REALLY GREAT CHRISTMAS!
Congrats, MJK! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ….hmmm, it would seem that I went down another path: I bought a three volume history of the Civil War by Shelby Foote….. Difficult to tune. Hard to play. Great read. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 2 guitars----magnets
2 Boxsters---models
Since I typically do the "this will count for the next(blank)presents, I suspect I'm still working off the last several guitars, the latest of which was the 2010 Collector, which probably counts for Anniversary and Christmas.
I did get a book on Eva Cassidy from my daughter and spent a nice rainy day in Portland reading it. That's the first time in years that I've spent any time reading a book, so that was nice. Our baby leaves for Haiti tonight, so coming back safely is all we want. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by Tim in Yucaipa:
... a three volume history of the Civil War by Shelby Foote I have that set. Excellent reference material. He was one of the world's leading experts on the subject before he passed away.
My adult kids are all broke, so, like it has been for the past five years, Christmas was pretty much all one way out, with the grand children appearing to be the big winners, which is pretty much how we believe it ought to be. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Tim in Yucaipa:
….hmmm, it would seem that I went down another path: I bought a three volume history of the Civil War by Shelby Foote….. Difficult to tune. Hard to play. Great read. You say, "Difficult to tune..." but did you ever REALLY take the time to TRY to tune it? Hmmmmm? Well? Didja? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ….couldn't decide which tune: "Doodle" or "Dixie" :rolleyes: |
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Location: Tennessee | A deluxe reissue album of Damn The Torpedos on red 180gr vinyl re-pressed from the original analog masters. Plus a bonus album of some unreleased songs from the same recording sessions and a few live songs from the era. AND it includes a 96K24bit digital download of all of it, too.
A pair of New Wayfarers in tortoise to replace the iconic nine-year-old pair I recently lost.
A new espresso machine that makes it mo betta mo fasta.
No guitars. I'm hoping for one in the near future. |
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Location: Utah | A R0de instrument mic. Get to see it in action in a few minutes when Sara and Katie play a show!!
Some picks, a new saddle for the Patriot, and a shirt rounds out the gifts received. Having all the kids home together was the best gift. |
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Location: NJ | a can of nuts |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 3 DVD's:
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
Les Paul "Chasing Sound" (awesome!)
Les Paul "Live at the Iridium" (also great)
And then something in Custom Color Gold:
\'95 Parker Fly Deluxe
But the best of all was our family home for Christmas and not traveling...priceless |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I bought my wife a bicycle.
Then figured she's got nobody to ride with, so I bought one for me too. (Generous sort that I am.)
I also mangaged to sneak a MusicMan Stingray into the collection without too much discomfort. Seems spending 4 months away from home gives me some leeway. |
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Location: Miami | Got me one of them there fiancés :-) |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Congrats Joe! |
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Location: Jet City | I got one of these in my stocking...
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by ''Jukebox Joe'' Tuñón:
Got me one of them there fiancés :-) Congrats, Joe!
So, delicate question here: did you mean fiancé or fiancée? Not that there's anything wrong with either one, but there IS quite a difference... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by AlanM:
Originally posted by ''Jukebox Joe'' Tuñón:
Got me one of them there fiancés :-) Congrats, Joe!
So, delicate question here: did you mean fiancé or fiancée? Not that there's anything wrong with either one, but there IS quite a difference... |
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Location: Newington, CT | I guess it would affect the card or gift you'd send, and help to identify who's the bride and who's the groom, or whether that's even relevant. I mean, in this day and age, it's important to know this stuff!
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Damon, that's just plain indulgent. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Got a Traveler Speedster (but I bought it for myself :( Does that count?)
Got it for playing outside in the rain...
But it turns-out to be the neatest little practice-in-front-of-the-TV guitar! :p
Nice Parker, MusicMike |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I finally got my Adamas 12 String, but I have been so busy playing with it that I haven't been able to stop and take pictures yet (: I was in such a hurry to get the cashier's check out (late in the day, right before the post office closed) that I just put it in an envelope and mailed it. What a STUPID idea huh? ... After over two weeks passed and I suffered a minor stroke, while stressing out, the envelope came back in the mail and apparently the sorter misread it. I then overnighted it to Ryan (RNickels), who was very patiently waiting (THANK YOU AGAIN!). It arrived the day before Chrismas, and all was well again in the Vincent homestead (:  |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Damon67:
I got one of these in my stocking...
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I'll try and post my picture again ...
My wall with the new addition (minus two that are on consignment locally)
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Location: Derry NH | I got a rock.
Wait, that was Halloween.
Got a new acoustic amp and some Clint Eastwood movies, a Louis L'Amour western DVD collection and Poco's Forgotten Trail CD.
Am celebrating New Years early right now- with the sled dog, a bottle of Veuve Clicquot and an 01 Cohiba Esplendidos while watching Clint kick ass. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Nice Parker, MusicMike Back at ya OMA...
I seriously recommend the Les Paul DVD's... |
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Location: New Thermopylae | Thousand rounds of 5.56x45, box of Turtles and an MM68. |
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Location: closely held secret | Still holding off those Persians, are ya? |
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Location: Utah | Turtles vs Persians? Must be Ninja Turtles. |
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Location: New Thermopylae | Originally posted by Waskel:
Still holding off those Persians, are ya? Bagged two, so far.
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Location: closely held secret | Those vicious animals. Freemen unite! Bring it on! |
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| No guitars, but I did get a bottle of wine called Red Guitar. After you go to their website and enter in your age (I was magically 21 again), a cartoon character comes on the screen and it plays flamenco music.
Red Guitar Wine
Other than that, I got the usual stuff -- clothes, money and an Entertainment book.
My 13 year old niece, however, got a nice present from her parents. They gave her a honey colored Squier six string electric, along with her father's old Vox amp.
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Location: Newington, CT | There once was a man from Thermopylae,
Vexed by Persians constantly stopping by.
He'd bid them adieu,
From his helvetican milieu,
Using Turtles, MM's and an eagle eye...
True story. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Oh, I believe there's a federal statue stating that every time you see a place name like "Thermopylae," you must make a limerick out from it.
The penalty for failure to comply is pretty stiff... |
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Location: closely held secret | There's a stiff penalty for "failure to comply with a statue"? |
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Location: Newington, CT | Lol! One of my better typos! |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Two (!!) American Standard Teles - an '09 and a '10, plus a bunch of pickups and various other parts and pieces that I'm gonna use to perform a couple of dream mods on them.
BUT...
I have to admit that I'm most pleased with the three volume hardcover edition of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes and the 24 DVD set of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes. |
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Location: SoCal | Most of us would be happy getting a Moody strap for Christmas... but what's the chance of getting one for Hanukkah and an identical one for Christmas, just a few weeks later?
Being a Danish Jew with the name Christensen worked out well.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by AlanM:
There once was a man from Thermopylae,
Vexed by Persians constantly stopping by.
He'd bid them adieu,
From his helvetican milieu,
Using Turtles, MM's and an eagle eye...
There once was a man from Thermopylae
Who seemed like a newbie just saying Hi
He's covered his tracks
And made no attacks
But I think we might know him from posts gone by |
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Location: SoCal | There once was a man from Thermopylae
Who alienated himself from the OFC
Others weren't without fault
Rooubishe led the assault
Now the guy's changed his name to "Come and Get It"
I'd say it's a New Year
Out with the Old, and in with New Gear
But did the guy show up with ah thousand NATO rounds...
Looking for battlegrounds? |
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| You're scansion is a little iffy there noah.
But a nice first verse.
What's a NATO round for us non gun owners? |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by schroeder:
You're scansion is a little iffy there noah.
But a nice first verse.
What's a NATO round for us non gun owners? 9mm.... |
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| When did you guys go metric? |
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Location: SoCal | thanks for the compliment?, schroeder :)
You can see why I wrote software for a living and not songs.
my reference to NATO rounds... ammunition adopted by NATO as a standard for use among its peacekeeping forces (surely a more accurate definition is out there)... the 9mm is a NATO handgun bullet, MolonLabe's 5.56x45mm is better known as a 5.56 NATO rifle bullet. NATO has a whole database of adopted ammunition (small to real big) along with detailed specifications for each one.
We've been Metric here for a long time... we just prefer to keep doing it the hard way. |
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Location: Newington, CT | And, after all that I blew it.
It's "hellenistic" milieu...not "helvetican."
Helvetican means swiss...
Oops. |
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Location: closely held secret | I've heard the Spartans were frequently pestered by the Swiss Guard when the Pope was passing through... |
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Location: Seacoast NH | SWMBO got me an iDea CC54iPL (Black) w/OHSC for Christmas. Not quite the Adamas I've been wanting for years, but with a new baby and the hunt on for a new house, I was pleased to get anything at all! Sounds like your typical Celebrity model, but plays quite well right out of the box. I'm looking forward to fooling around with the MP3 recorder when I finally get some "me time"... |
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Location: Miami | Originally posted by AlanM:
Originally posted by ''Jukebox Joe'' Tuñón:
Got me one of them there fiancés :-) Congrats, Joe!
So, delicate question here: did you mean fiancé or fiancée? Not that there's anything wrong with either one, but there IS quite a difference... |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | "….NATO rounds"…
… for a second I thought wooden roundbacks were coming back. :rolleyes:
" Nato wood is a collective name for wood from Mora trees. The best-known species are Mora excelsa (Mora) and Mora gonggrijpii (Morabukea), with the latter contributing less (occurring in a smaller area).
The wood may vary in appearance, with reddish brown being the dominant color, but in varying shades and often with darker or lighter streaks. The wood is dense and not particularly pleasant; it is not very easy to dry or to work. However, the wood is available in large dimensions and is well above average in properties such as resistance to wear, strength and durability. It finishes well. It is used for heavy construction, industrial flooring, railroad ties, etc. Smaller billets are used to build acoustic and electric guitars.
Because of its availability and price, many Chinese and Korean imported guitars use nato in their inexpensive guitars. BC Rich guitars,[1] Eastwood guitars[2] and others manufacturers often refer to nato as "eastern mahogany" due to the use of the more expensive mahogany wood in higher grade instruments" |
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Location: Newington, CT | "gonggrijpii " - Gesundheit! |
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Any cool Christmas presents?