Posted 2021-02-23 10:06 AM (#555214 - in reply to #555211) Subject: Re: Ovation Sighting
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 599
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Hello, Everyone,
I saw this last week, but I forgot how to put the link up? Oops. It was/is the first time I saw ANYONE, let alone Vince Gill?, use duct tape on an Ovation! Freaked me green, for sure. Being Canadian, and a Red Green follower not withstanding, I found it somewhat cringeworthy, I must say. Did others do this back in the day? I never had any problems with feedback on my older ( c.1977) Custom Balladeer 1612-4 center sound hole guitar, but then again, I'm no Vince Gill by any stretch of the imagination, either. Just sayin'.
Mike S.
Ottawa, ON.,
CANADA
Posted 2021-02-27 10:37 AM (#555237 - in reply to #555206) Subject: Re: Ovation Sighting
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 1555
Location: Indiana
Large venues, high-powered PA, floor monitors = feedback. Weren't a lot of commercially available soundhole options in the 70's. It was likely gaffers tape. May have even been just an issue with that particular venue.
First stadium I ever played I got in a feedback loop with my Adamas and a wedge monitor... thought the top was going to blow off. Finally had the sound guy turn my monitor completely off. Went home and worked on some felt covers that could be attached as needed from the inside with velcro. (The rubber hole plugs had not been introduced yet.)
And... I'm a big Red Green fan as well!
"Spare the duct tape... spoil the job."
Posted 2021-02-27 9:09 PM (#555241 - in reply to #555206) Subject: Re: Ovation Sighting
Joined: February 2016 Posts: 1802
Location: When??
I think I would have opted for maybe fitting some smooth black fabric or something more aesthetically pleasing.. but I guess ya gotta do what ya gotta do with what ya got at the time.
Posted 2022-06-24 12:03 PM (#557428 - in reply to #555206) Subject: Re: Ovation Sighting
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 599
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Hello, Everyone,
About 2 weeks ago, on my cable TV, one of the radio stations showed what looked to be Ovation Elite / Adamas sound holes as an Andre Kostelanetz album cover? Not the entire guitar, but only just the sound holes, mind you, which were black, and the rest of the album cover was purple?, as in Barney The Dinosaur! One of the strangest album covers I've seen in a long time, and who knows what the graphic designer was thinking? Correct me if I'm wrong here, OFC people, but Andre Kostelanetz was/is not a guitar player.
Mike S.
Ottawa, ON.,
CANADA
Posted 2022-06-24 12:03 PM (#557429 - in reply to #555206) Subject: Re: Ovation Sighting
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 599
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Hello, Everyone,
About 2 weeks ago, on my cable TV, one of the radio stations showed what looked to be Ovation Elite / Adamas sound holes as an Andre Kostelanetz album cover? Not the entire guitar, but only just the sound holes, mind you, which were black, and the rest of the album cover was purple?, as in Barney The Dinosaur! One of the strangest album covers I've seen in a long time, and who knows what the graphic designer was thinking? Correct me if I'm wrong here, OFC people, but Andre Kostelanetz was/is not a guitar player.
Mike S.
Ottawa, ON.,
CANADA
Ovation Sighting