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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Hi all you good friends and interesting people
I have to tell you I am no longer an Ovation owner, I gave my Viper to my son, Bailey Jr, who is on garageband.com as "probity" and youtube as "probity1". He and his wife came to visit us from San Marcos, CA and he sounded so good on it that I gave it to him. I am now reduced to 3 mandolins, a '66 Fender Mustang, and my 70's Yamaki copy of a Martin D-42 that developed a soundboard crack last week.
Not a bad one, but I think the sound even improved a little as if the crack relieved some 30 year old tension on the guitar. Now I will cause some great instrument repair and maintenance people to become aghast, and reach for a lynching rope. I PUT SOME HEAVY TRANSPARENT SHIPPING TAPE ON THE CRACK TO STOP IT'S MOVEMENT. It still shows the grain and finish, and is no worse than the pick gaurd, even though all collectors will immediately consider the guitar a piece of s--- like they did when I screwed a strap button on the heel of the neck.
Feel free to comment, and remember I don't have any more Ovations, but they are my favorite example of science and art combining with a great result.
Yesterday, August 10, 2007, was Shirley and mine Golden wedding anniversary, those 50 years flew by like a steam streamliner from the 40's.
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Congratulations with your and Shirley`s Golden Wedding Anniversary :) (Shirley is a Beautyful name )but do n`t you think that you should have an Anniversary guitar...an Elite with gold hardware and all the trimmings could come to mind :D
Happy Anniversary Bailey & Shirley :)
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | V-Elite
Great thought, I agree, but the government doesn't have a medicare instrument program. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Very happy for you,
but please don't call me Shirley. |
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Thank you, I love our nation's northern allies, and would never call anybody Shirley who wasn't named that from birth. Looks like you have accumulated some great Ovations.
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Location: Tennessee | Bailey ...
Great to hear from you. The kindest thoughts go out to you and Shirley ... what a fantastic achievement. I wish you fifty more years of health and happiness together.
Ovations or not, I truly wish you would drop around a little more often. I sorely miss waking up in the morning to read your erudite take on life; always penned in the wee hours. I've learned a lot about life from you ... squeezed in amongst tales of nuclear science, old Fords, car accidents, desert rats, and the heydays of San Diego.
Stay close, my friend.
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Yeah Phil..are you going to play those guitars in the near future..?.. :D
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Bobbo
Shirley can see, my old cars are running, my neibor's horse had a foal in my back yard the same day that Shirley's lovely dog Tootsie died peacefully. I'll try to come on sometimes, it's so hard not being a REAL musician with an audience after so many years with somewhere to play other than my living room.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Congrats Bailey,
Yes, life goes by very fast indeed...the love and companionship of a fine lady are truly a blessing...here's to many more for you both!
Blessings... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Bobbo and friends
This will ruin our friendship, I wrote it for Shirley and she almost left me.
FIFTY GOLDEN YEARS
It rattled accross the trestle high
With creek and harbor seen far below
On unseen rails it crossed the sky
So how was a little girl to know
That her Daddy's train couldn't fly
And land on earth at the railroad depot
Her Daddy who ran that train in overalls
Gave her to me at our wedding celebration
We drove our '57 Ford to Niagara Falls
And began a trip that would span the nation
Setting in Las Cruces New Mexico
On a hot August desert night
An Ohio steam streamliner train
Came roaring through the night
It was a reminder that 50 years ago
We said those wedding vows
Those 50 years were on that train
Whistle screaming history the drivers eating miles
We left our home and never looking back
We were riding cross the nation on that track
We had a house above a long steep cliff
Above Conneaut Creek no backyard but an if
What if the house went down the cliff
The firstborn baby's room was on that cliff
We had more kids and moved around
Lived across from Lake Erie's soothing sound
We drank and danced at the Billow Beach
To jazzy piano songs and 40's music still around
The boys and dog went lost in the woods
And I found them by the railroad tracks
That same streamliner went roaring by
We left for California after that
With three kids sleeping in the back
We even drove through the night
From Arizona with a rented trailer
We made San Diego by the morning light
Beaches mountains desert sun
Endless days of carefree fun
60's California was our number one
And with number four the family's done
Too many people joined the fun
It no longer seemed like number one
We packed up, got on the train
And headed out there once again
New Mexico became our home
We lived there longest didn't roam
On a hot August desert night
An Ohio steam streamliner train
Came roaring through the night
It was a reminder that 50 years ago
We said those wedding vows
Those 50 years were on that train
Whistle screaming history the drivers eating miles
We left our home and never looking back
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Bailey,now that is a Beautyful song..I was going to say something like that to my Lady in 25 years from now..Have Another 50 years together,I wish you both well :)
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Do it anyhow, you don't have to wait for fifty years. We have to love each other THROUGHOUT THOSE YEARS.
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Location: Waurika OK | Bailey,
It is wonderful to hear from you!
Many times I have entered this place thinking, Maybe we will hear from Bailey today, only to be disappointed.
Congratulations on the anniversary! 6 more years and the wife and I will celebrate our 50th.
I nominate you as The "Illustrous Potentate Philosopher" of the Ovation Fan Club.
Keep'em comin'. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Congratulation's on your 50th!
My condolences for the loss of the Viper. |
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Location: SoCal | Bailey, awfully good to hear from you. And whether you have an Ovation in the stable right now or not, once you've had one and loved one, you're always one of us.
Congrats on the Golden. One of my great regrets is that moody.rn and I didn't get meet and get married until later and we might not make 50 together. It's something to dream of. My folks are about to hit 59 in November.
Please keep posting. Like Bobbo and others, I miss getting up in the morning to your observations. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Congrats, Bailey. Our 30th is tomorrow. Most people think that's a long time. Enjoy the next 50. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Bailey,
You're not going to believe this ... but my heart skipped a beat reading your post. I am so happy. So good to hear from you. I missed you.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | All of my wonderful friends
Shirley's Mother died a few months short of her fiftieth, her dad never got over it, we made it, Hurrah.
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| Bailey it's great to have you around again - we've been short on wisdom since you disappeared. And great to hear about Lady B.'s eyes. Excellent news. |
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Location: NJ | Hey Bailey, glad to hear from you.
You still using the OFC guitar strap?
Hope so |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Al
Of Course I use the strap, it is one of my most valuable possesions. Giving away the Viper made sense as my son will play it as it should be played. I can get by with my acoustic and my Mustang and my three mandolins here in my living room. I even have an eight track digital recording apparatus that if I could figure it out would allow me to make recordings. Who knows, I might do that someday.
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