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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | As I review some of the discussion threads here, I'm struck by the phenomenal depth and detail of information readily available from, and regularly provided by, so many members. On the other hand, I find it hard to believe that I'm actually part of such a fanatic group of Ovation geeks. |
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Location: Tennessee | I prefer the term dork. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm comforted in the knowledge that a good number of guys here have forgotten more about Ovations than I'll ever know.
I'm a minor Ovation dork.... at best... on a good day. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've just been hanging out here for 5 years, hoping I might learn something. I'll give it 5 more and then I'm out of here. |
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| Ovation Homos. Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I wouldn't be so quick to refer to one's self as a "dork" until you have read the definition. Last time I checked it was the name for a male whale's reproductive appendage. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Right...
Now I'll never be able to use that word in the same way. |
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Location: Tennessee | Urban myth. That said, I've heard they make the best nuts and saddles and are highly sought after by the true guitar aficionado.
That said:
Dork
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dork may refer to:
* USA pejorative slang for a quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.
* Vulgar slang for "penis"
I am a dork. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | It's a higher order of sickness... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I like to use the term "Ovation Nerd" with a slight lean toward having thoughtfully selected the less advertised Ovation niche market to focus my OCD powers for the good of mankind.
Sure its a rationalization but it's MY RATIONALIZATION! |
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Location: Texas | Yes, we are!!!!! |
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Location: NJ | ok |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I will graciously accept the title of Ovation Dork only when I can accurately and on demand decipher and describe the attributes of each model based on their four digit code.
Until then I consider myself:
An Ovation Fan
A Matrix Nut
An Academy Defender
An Applause Freak (to a disturbing degree) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My wife and step daughter are very tuned in to the latest trends in fashion, culture, societal norms, etc. I, on the other hand, remain perpetually clueless. We were all visiting over the weekend and they asked what my latest guitar was. So I spend about 15 minutes in the basement pulling out the carbon case to haul up the OFC-II, then I spend another 15 minutes describing all of its high-tech attributes with as much detail as I can recall. When finished, they just shake their heads not so much to show disgust, but rather pitifulness, and one says to the other sort of matter-of-factly, "What a dork."
We dorks deserve more respect. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | We dorks deserve more respect. Hear Hear!
Where Where?
There There!!! |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Ovation Dork?
O'rk!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
My wife and step daughter are very tuned in to the latest trends in fashion, culture, societal norms, etc. I, on the other hand, remain perpetually clueless. We were all visiting over the weekend and they asked what my latest guitar was. So I spend about 15 minutes in the basement pulling out the carbon case to haul up the OFC-II, then I spend another 15 minutes describing all of its high-tech attributes with as much detail as I can recall. When finished, they just shake their heads not so much to show disgust, but rather pitifulness, and one says to the other sort of matter-of-factly, "What a dork."
We dorks deserve more respect. I've had several similar experiences. If we have people over, after I respectfully engage in conversations about our kids, TV, sports or whatever, someone might ask to see my guitars. One or two of the guys in our usual group may be interested and might ask questions. Others, including SWMBO, comment that I have so many of the same guitars. After about 2 minutes of me explaining how none of the 15 Ovations are the same, they walk off or start talking to someone else about something else. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Are we not Ovationistas? |
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Location: Tennessee | No! We are Dev-O! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | 'O'ccultists |
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Location: Chicago | Certifiable WEIRD-O. Jeff and I have been outright "dissed" for sticking to our Os: From a coulpa snobs here in town who have seriously snubbed us, to the GP contest where playing an Ovation was equivalent to being a sad-ass imitation, dimeola wannabe etc etc.
Proud of it! |
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Location: Texas | round backs… |
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Location: Seattle | Wow.... "not sure I want to belong to any club that would have me as a member..." Groucho Marx.
But I check this site almost daily. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | "Why do you have so many of the same guitar?" I have gotten this from a family member or two. Are you kidding me? This one has a cutaway, this one is a twelve string, this one is a nylon string, this one is red, this one is blue. They shake their heads and say - they look like the same guitar for me.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Getting a 12 string should have been easy enough to explain, but I still get "why do you need more than one guitar, when you can only play one at a time?" Those people usually don't want an answer and would ask the same question about golf clubs.
I was in a music store and a mother was telling her son he didn't need a 6 string, he should just play half of the strings on his 12 string. |
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| Originally posted by Designzilla:
"Why do you have so many of the same guitar?" I have gotten this from a family member or two. Are you kidding me? This one has a cutaway, this one is a twelve string, this one is a nylon string, this one is red, this one is blue. They shake their heads and say - they look like the same guitar for me.
Sigh... What I think is even worse is when you hear from other guitar players "You already have one Ovation, why do you want/need another"?
Well, let's see...there's a deep bowl, shallow bowl, supershallow bowl, mid-dept bowl, center hole, displaced sound hole, carbon top, wood top...
The best came from my mother. Granted, she doesn't know much about guitars. When I showed her my 02 Collectors, she said "Ovation -- never heard of them. Are they a good brand?"
I said that Glen Campbell played one on his TV show. Her response was "Well, if it is good enough for Glen Campbell, then it's good enough for you."
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | "Well, if it is good enough for Glen Campbell, then it's good enough for you." 'Nuff Said! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Yesterday I was perusing guitar books at a local guitar store that is closing and bought one of Cat Stevens' songs. I didn't notice until I got home that his picture on the front had him holding a Custom Legend. I guess I'm not a total geek if I bought it without realizing that an Ovation was on the cover. Not! 15 Ovations makes me a geek. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Q: Why do you own 155 guitars?
A: Because I can't affford 156.
Dorks have no difficulty rationalizing irrational answers. |
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| Originally posted by MusicMishka:
"Well, if it is good enough for Glen Campbell, then it's good enough for you." 'Nuff Said!
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| I've realized that I'm an Ovation geek-o when the weatherman announced a Tornado watch and I thought, "I'm always Storm watching (Tornado, Hurricane, Typhoon and Thunderhead) on Ebay"! :)
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just got back from lunch with 3 other guitar guys. I was the geekiest by quite a large margin, but only because one of the other guys that was supposed to be there was out of town. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Well, I have 6 Ovations, only 'cause I'm poor and can't afford the Nylon O and blue Adamas I so desperatelly dream of one day owning but... at 6 feet 255lbs and as someone with a well known propensity towards violence, most prudent folkes would hesitate to refer to me as a geek.
They tend to provide a little bit of latitude towards someone who appears to have the ablitty to pull their arms out of their sockecs and beat them senseless with their detached members.
I'd say.........I'm an Ovation Activist. :)
Yeah, I'm a Melodical Pacefist.. :) |
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Are we geeks, or what?