Posted 2018-05-30 9:16 AM (#543830 - in reply to #543829) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: April 2006 Posts: 847
Location: Munich, Germany
In Germany we have a terrible style of music called "Volkstuemliche Musik". They try to imitate classic bavarian folk music but add cheap drum computer sounds, stupid three chord melodies and even more stupid lyrics than Henry Deutschendorf was able to write.
A lot of them play Elites and Adamas guitars cause of the epaulettes - I believe they think it's for the "traditional flowry" look. I could post pictures, but the imagination should be enough to not want hear and see any more of it.
Posted 2018-05-31 4:00 PM (#543883 - in reply to #543819) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: June 2012 Posts: 2303
Location: Lake Forest, CA
Beal - 2018-05-29 3:04 PM
Well, he wasn't that great a pilot.........
I never flew with him so I couldn't say what were his skills, but he was a pilot who thought he was above the law.
Several months before his death the FAA ordered him to surrender his license due to his violation of the waiver that forbade him from drinking after he got his DUI. During a biennial medical examination, he told the medical examiner that he drank a glass or two of wine per week. The doc reported it to the FAA and they yanked his license.
Due to his ego, he ignored them and continued to fly (illegally) anyway. Had he obeyed the FAA, surrendered his license and not flown, he'd probably still be alive today.
Posted 2018-05-31 4:27 PM (#543888 - in reply to #543887) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: December 2014 Posts: 1713
Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota
Jonmark Stone - 2018-05-31 4:14 PM
I've posted it here before when the conversation turned to John, Dan. Really feel lucky to have known him. Decidedly different from his image.
DanSavage - 2018-05-31 4:01 PM
Jonmark Stone - 2018-05-30 6:56 AM
DanSavage - I seem to recall reading once that John was less than impressed with Ovations. Something about 'guitars should be made from wood'.
He said that to me after playing my 1621. Kinda half joking... but he was in love with his Taylor line by then.
It must have been you I read this from because I can find no reference to it online.
He was my Idol. His music spoke to me in a way that no one else's did. His concern with the planet, conservation, and making this a better place, inspired me to work towards those goals too. I saw him at every concert he had here in Minnesota, and even though he died a horrible death, he was doing something he loved, flying. He had his problems, he was human, but he was a good man who positively influenced allot of people with his music and actions. And from what I hear, he was genuine and friendly to everyone he met.
I would LOVE to hear about you meeting him sometime Jonmark, that was always a Dream of mine.
Posted 2018-05-31 4:28 PM (#543889 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: February 2016 Posts: 1769
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@Jonmark Stone - "Really feel lucky to have known him. Decidedly different from his image."
I knew an artist out of northern Utah way back in late 60's early 70's who created some really (and I mean really) wild pieces. Paintings, assemblies, clothing.. all of it over-the-top bizarre, but also very cool and unique. Probably smoked the good stuff. Anyway, John Denver was one of his greatest admirers, and frequently bought his crazy work. So when I read what you said it brought a "decidedly different" grin to my face.
Posted 2018-05-31 4:43 PM (#543892 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 1553
Location: Indiana
Damon.
Well... the flower child image he developed in the 70's had hardened some by the time I got to know him in the 90's. But I liked that. Extremely inteligent. Unassuming. We had some mutual friends in music, but we spent most of our time talking space and aviation.
Posted 2018-05-31 4:50 PM (#543893 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6992
Location: Jet City
Jonmark, I'm just goofing on his name at birth. I have no idea what he was like. I just know my aunt played his records on repeat when I was a kid... his and Elton's.
Take Me Home Country Roads was the first song I learned to play and sing. I think I was 8, maybe 9 yers old.
Posted 2018-06-04 11:58 AM (#543940 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12750
Location: Boise, Idaho
I was in college at Kansas State when my roommate went to see them at a high school auditorium for something like $2. I didn't want to pay $2 for some band I never heard of. He came back and said they were really good and had a cool violin player. I predicted they'd never be popular with a violin player.
Posted 2018-06-04 5:52 PM (#543943 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: December 2001 Posts: 10581
Location: NJ
That pic was from a few years ago but I always liked that shot under the Walt Whitman bridge
Bands with violin
It’s a beautiful day
Jefferson airplane starship
Hot tuna
The flock
Springsteen
Dylan (Scarlett Rivera era)
Mahuvishnu orchestra
Zappa
Alejandro escovedo
Those are just the ones the immediately come to mind
Posted 2018-06-05 9:10 AM (#543952 - in reply to #543950) Subject: RE: Ovation players
Joined: January 2009 Posts: 1249
Location: Texas
Not only "the Player", but probably "the Catalyst" for Ovations success. Not only was Glen the first to get Ovation out in front of America in a weekly hour-long commercial, but he was also instrumental in pushing R&D to develop the acoustic electric. Additionally, the artist bowl was designed for Glen.
I would imagine that "the Player" was "the Reason" a lot of us, and others, had to have one. Charlie and Glen...probably as close to a perfect storm as you could get, in terms of timing.
Posted 2018-06-07 6:23 PM (#544000 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: February 2016 Posts: 1769
Location: When??
I can't locate the pictures I've seen before of David Koresh playing Ovations, but a teeny-tiny little fraction of the black smoke we saw coming from the Branch Davidian compound in Waco was from burning Lyrachord.
Posted 2018-08-15 9:22 AM (#544909 - in reply to #543940) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: November 2011 Posts: 741
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Mark in Boise - 2018-06-04 11:58 AM
I was in college at Kansas State when my roommate went to see them at a high school auditorium for something like $2. I didn't want to pay $2 for some band I never heard of. He came back and said they were really good and had a cool violin player. I predicted they'd never be popular with a violin player.
My uncle and I went to a huge nightclub in Louisville Kentucky many years ago. We didn't know who was playing there but the band was very loud even at the front door. We went off on our own in the huge, cavernous club in search of a rest room. We ended up going down a long hallway that ended with only one door. The music was very loud there. We opened the door and stepped into the side of the stage where Kansas was playing. Right there in front of us. We immediately turned and left of course. Thinking back I wish we'd have lingered a little longer.
Posted 2018-09-04 12:03 PM (#545134 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 563
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Hello, Everyone,
Here in CANADA, I know of 2 famous/infamous Ovation Players. I have no pictures, nor websites and/or YOU TUBE links for them, but they could be out there somewhere? One was the late RONNIE PROPHET, who had a national TV show taped here in Ottawa, in its infancy, c.1979-85. He played an Ovation Artist Classic through a HEIL TalkBox, doing a bad imitation of Peter Frampton, complete with frog noises in a comedy routine! The other player was/is WAYNE ROSTAD, who is still alive, AND infamous in Ottawa, for, WOULD YOU BELIEVE?..actually breaking the bridge while playing on his ADAMAS?!, which was one of only 2 ADAMAS/ADAMII sold in all of CANADA at the time, ca. 1977. I actually got to play the other one, that was sent to the Ovation rep, and NO, I DID NOT damage it!!
Mike S.,
Ottawa, ON.,
CANADA
Posted 2020-03-31 12:15 PM (#551711 - in reply to #543779) Subject: Re: Ovation players
Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15653
Location: SoCal
Just went thru all these pictures and gotta wonder if any of these players still play Ovations (at least the ones still alive). The only 2 that I see are Kevin Cronin and Richie Sambora. And that info was from a couple of years ago......
Ovation players
Damon. 
in pushing R&D to develop the acoustic electric. Additionally, the artist bowl was designed for Glen. 
