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| swing by and get me and slydog on the way up..
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Jim.
If you listen closely,..the shrll sound you hear is the distance is Al Screaming!! :rolleyes: :) |
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Location: west virginia | Well if all things go well and i can get a few days off work i have to find someone to fill in for me since im an independent contractor but anyways hopefully i can make it next year but I'm kinda scared to meet you guys in person seeing how bad you all are on here I can only imagine how you all are in person....lol.. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Independent Contractor"
Just don't show up on the job for a week or two... don't they all?
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Stevechapman:
Jim.
If you listen closely,..the shrll sound you hear is the distance is Al Screaming!! :rolleyes: :) Steve, is that what it was? I thought it was just an ambulance going by....softly, and very distant... Hey, it's never too early to get the ball rolling. By next year, this post may have...like...90 pages or so. :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | This time I'm blocking out the last couple weeks of May. No trials or graduations and I hope we don't have any weddings or funerals. So next year it will be on some other weekend. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I hated missing this year. I will not miss next year!
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Location: NJ | ahhh! . . . the sweet smell of "excuses" as they poke their heads up through the ground . . . with almost a full year to mature and "flower" to their magnificent splendour!! . . . |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | I'm just glad that I was a part of last year's, and managed to be in this year's tour. For some unknown reason, I have the feeling that I may not be able to make it next year ... if there will ever be one?? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I was going to add my "I'll definitely be there next year", but that's what I've said the last two years. Sometimes life gets in the way of your plans.
Instead I'll add - I hope I can make it next year! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This was my first reunion and I learned a lot.
It also seems like 2007 was a particularly exciting reunion because of all the new models. The surprise of the reunion, for me anyway, was the fully painted flame elite. Just imagine what next year will be like. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
The surprise of the reunion, for me anyway, was the fully painted flame elite. Just imagine what next year will be like. ...a fully painted flame elite... in flames, hurtling across the sky?
(could have had a preview this year, but nobody thought to bring lighter fluid.) |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
This was my first reunion and I learned a lot.
It also seems like 2007 was a particularly exciting reunion because of all the new models. The surprise of the reunion, for me anyway, was the fully painted flame elite. Just imagine what next year will be like. Brad,
The Flame Elite is mine. I was told that it was a big hit during the lobby jam. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Phil's Flame is Fantastic.
It has a special something that caught everyones attention. And it wasn't only the paint job.
Just ask Stonebobbo... he rocked out with it. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I thought it was, Phil, and you are lucky to have it (as were we to see and play it). Not only did its sound cut through the others, but the manner in which the bowl was painted so well to integrate with the front was just beautiful. As I said earlier, it was the sleeper of the group in my opinion. I knew what to expect with the 2080 and a few notable others, but yours was a very pleasant surprise. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | It was very nice spending time with you and your daughter at Stonge's |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Phil's Flame is Fantastic.
It has a special something that caught everyones attention. And it wasn't only the paint job.
Just ask Stonebobbo... he rocked out with it. I really liked that guitar. As soon as the guitar fund is replenished, I am going to find one to buy.
I wonder what happened to the blue one with the "rain drop" finish we saw on the tour a couple of years ago? |
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Location: NJ | I was wondering about THAT one, myself . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | It's probably in the 'upper room' with the 2004 and 2006 collectors, among others...
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Ever wake-up the morning after a Rum induced stupor to realize the toilet lid you lifted was- actually your guitar case... |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Are they actually embossed 'raindrops' or just painted on? |
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Location: Up North | I think they need to make a "beer" coloured one.
Dark amber at the bottom, lighter at the top.
Mmmmmm... Beer... |
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Location: south east Michigan | I think it's more of a "contact paper" type of process. At the time I think I heard Cliff ask for more details. Darren wouldn't (couldn't?) talk about it.
While we are talking about guitars we saw in the enginnering room... What about that texture-topped Adamas without any sound holes?? It was grey... no bass holes... not treble holes... and... no preamp. That hole was open. I played it and listened while others played it. Sounded good to me. Anyone else pick it up???
When I asked Darren about it he said it was put together as a joke. |
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Location: NJ | It doesn't involve "contact paper", but it's a pretty involved process.
When I described to Darren how I "suspected" it was done, he was quite surprised how much of it I was "right" with . . .
I DID play that sans-soundhole textured top.
It just had a "soundport" in the side created by the hole where a pre-amp would go . . .
It didn't "project" OUT for shit, but sounded great when PLAYING it! Would make a nice "practice guitar . . . |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Slipkid:
...That hole was open. I played it and listened while others played it. Sounded good to me. Anyone else pick it up???
When I asked Darren about it he said it was put together as a joke. I thought it was intentional. The side-port sound hole thing seems to be the rage among small wood-box builders. I saw one guy that claimed a massive volume gain out the front with the addition of a side port. Wish I knew where I put that link... |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Originally posted by Slipkid:
Phil's Flame is Fantastic.
It has a special something that caught everyones attention. And it wasn't only the paint job.
Just ask Stonebobbo... he rocked out with it. I really liked that guitar. As soon as the guitar fund is replenished, I am going to find one to buy.
I wonder what happened to the blue one with the "rain drop" finish we saw on the tour a couple of years ago?
As I stated before, I was surprised that the guitar was thought of so highly. I guess if I can't have a #47 reissue this is the closest thing to it that I can afford. I know that I took a lot of pictures of you while you were playing it. I want to apologize if I put a damper on the fun you were having with it. It's just that I knew there was going to be a few "Nikon camera moments" when you were rocking with the guitar.
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Ovation Rain Drop finish 1778T
http://www.music123.com/Ovation-Elite-T-Blue-Rain-Drop-Acoustic-Ele... |
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Location: NJ | I really hate you guys |
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Location: Scotland | See, now you've upset Al. Your're at least 3 weeks too early to be discussing the next tour. No patience. |
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Location: Vermont USA | alpep posted "I really hate you guys"
So many ways to say I love you!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was just talking to John Budny about it today, as a matter of fact. If you have a real life, you have to plan ahead. If you don't have a life, you pester Al about planning ahead. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Amelia Island at the end of March. The OFC tour jam a couple of months later. Maybe something locally in between. Can you go to too many guitar events? Didn't think so. |
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Location: NJ | I was hoping that maybe Al was gonna host a NorEaster at the new "digs" . . . but now you guys've gone & pissed him off(again) . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cruster:
The side-port sound hole thing seems to be the rage among small wood-box builders. I saw one guy that claimed a massive volume gain out the front with the addition of a side port. Wish I knew where I put that link... Look in the wine cabinet. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cliff:
I was hoping that maybe Al was gonna host a NorEaster at the new "digs" . . . but now you guys've gone & pissed him off(again) . . . +1 |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | "Is this too soon?"
I dunno--how fast do you walk?? :D ;) :D
(Sorry, Jim; I just couldn't resist.....)
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm sure if there is going to be any factory event next year that Al will announce it at the appropriate time. I quench my own curiosity by assuming that there is no event planned until I hear otherwise. Dave |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by cliff:
I was hoping that maybe Al was gonna host a NorEaster at the new "digs" . . . but now you guys've gone & pissed him off(again) . . . call Sue I will send you her cell number |
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Location: NJ | NoThanx.
I've DONE "My Time" . . . |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Look in the wine cabinet. All I found was this exceptionally inexpensive, yet very good quality, cabernet. Smoking Loon 2006, on sale at the local Meijer's Shifty Acres for $7.50/bottle. Sure, it's a blend and no, they don't grow their own grapes, but...you can't beat it for the price. Stay away from the 2004, though, it was tart and had a funky finish (OK, the first glass was downright nasty, but you know how it is...who cares after the first two, right?).
Now, how the heck did we get on the subject of what's in my wine cabinet? ;) |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | aaaah.......Smoking Loon, price is right, and a pretty good little blend.
Drink the good bottle first, and everything that follows will be fine.
At my son's wedding they served Winking Owl. Available for about three fifty or less. Certainly kept the final bill a little more respectable. Thirty cases were consumed and no one complained. Quanity over quality? |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by BegginJIM:
aaaah.......Smoking Loon, price is right, and a pretty good little blend.
Drink the good bottle first, and everything that follows will be fine.
At my son's wedding they served Winking Owl. Available for about three fifty or less. Certainly kept the final bill a little more respectable. Thirty cases were consumed and no one complained. Quanity over quality? Yeah, the Loon is good. I discovered it about, gosh, five or six years ago and thought it was the bees knees. Then I hit that 2004 a couple years back and swore off it. My best friend talked me into picking up the 2006 and I'm back in the fold. We have an ongoing competition to find the best wine for under $10/bottle. So far, the Loon is it (excluding the 2004...everyone get that? Heh).
Thanks for the tip on Winking Owl. I went and did a search. We have an Aldi's near by, so maybe I'll go get it...supposedly only $2.50 there! ;)
Check out these comments about Winking Owl if you want a good laugh. :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Charles Shaw Wines- "Two Buck Chuck" |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | To get $2.00 wine up here you have to make it.
Of course today we can cross the border, where a dollar is a dollar, get drunk and drive home! (Avoid the import duty that way.) |
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