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Location: south east Michigan | Newbies.... FALL IN!!
This the the thread where you announce proudly to the world that you have indeed heeded the call to "Be There!"
Please chime in with a list of your hopes, dreams, expectations, AND FEARS for the upcoming event. |
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Location: Paris/France | Ok Brad,
I proudly announce that I'll be there and you can't imagine how I'm happy and affraid at the same time!!!
I'm happy because:
I'll meet you all
I'll see Dave again
I'll visit the factory
I'll visit NYC before the tour
Etc...
So, in simple words, I'm going to realize one of my sweetest dream.
Why I'm affraid??
Because I'm a poor guitar player...
It's worst with a ukulele in hands...
I'll have to speak in English and it's not my greatest talent (you already knows that fact)...
I'll speak with Jason and it's already so hard to understand what he writes to me (it's a joke my friend)... :D :D :D
Because I'm not sure to want to go back in france after the the election of our next president!!! ;)
By anyway, I'll be there and it's a a real privilege for me to be a small part of this great event.
Thanks
J :) |
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Location: closely held secret | I think I would have put seeing Dave again in the second group... |
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Location: ranson,wva | ill be attending. im a terraible guitar player and im not ashamed to admit it..lol but im looking forward to seeing they guys i met last sept. and meeting a bunch more of yous guys. and realy lookign forward to playing a bunch of o's and a's that i havnt played before.....jason |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Brad, you failed to mention that it is customary for Newbies wear their underwear over their pants at their first Factory tour. |
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Location: closely held secret | It's just for identification... not for any purposes of humiliation. Honest. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Jeff... that will all be explained at the Newbie Orientation Gathering. |
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Location: NJ | ". . the Newbie Orientation Gathering . ."
Oh, GOOD!!! . . . we ARE doing the "WaterBoarding" again, this year . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Shhh. We don't discuss the NOG until after the last booze run Thursday night. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | And don't forget...
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Location: Orange County, California | :D :p Armageddon!!! :p :D |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Looking forward to:
1. The factory tour
2. Meeting some OFC folks and putting faces to names
3. Some lobby jamming
4. 4 days prior visit with my daughter
5. Picking up an amp from Al
6. Oh yeah, and likely picking up another guitar
Not looking forward to:
1. More G.A.S.
2. Discovering that my musical tastes predate most of the rest of the OFC membership
3. Coconuts don't come in my color |
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Location: Scotland | Oh no! Not Lemmiwinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by paulmac:
...I'm not sure to want to go back in france after the the election of our next president!!! ...and you'd consider staying in the US with their president?? :confused:
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Then again, we're stuck with John Howard, the poms have to put up with Blair, so that leaves Canada.
And hey, they speak French there...
...sort of. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | 
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Location: NJ | just make sure you send the newbies the charts AND the list of beers that are acceptable and what toppings we like on our pizzas and they will be fine. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | NO FU@KING PINEAPPLE!! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Nice going Jeff...
Now you went & offended Randy.
And Tim, too! |
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Location: big island | and haiku and poiboy and popologuy... |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | This will be my second time attending the tour, but since I was invisible and incognito from the first, does that qualify me as a newbie? LOL |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | argh... forget about it ... |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I've been playing Ovations since 1968 and I'm still a freakin' newbie? So be it....as long as it doesn't involve a kosher dill. :cool: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Ain't much kosher about this krowd.
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Location: NJ | ". . Nice going Jeff...
Now you went & offended Randy.
And Tim, too! . . . and haiku and poiboy and popologuy . . .'
If you ain't gonna "show". y'got NO right t'BITCH!! . . . |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I'm looking forward to meeting all of the characters in this ongoing soap opera known as the OFC. I'm looking forward to playing a couple of guitars that I'll probably never own.
I'm going in with an open mind and a closed wallet and hoping that doesn't reverse itself! |
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Location: The Shop | I will be excited that it is Friday,and Iam afraid to see you all again. :-) |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | I guess i qualify as a newbie. It will be my first time down but i only got my first O back in November !!
I'll bring a friend of mine along for the ride, he's a big Fender fan but was really impressed with the 1778LX when he tried it.... :)
And i'll bring some "real" beer along for the ride. Should make it to the hotel around 6 PM thursday night. I'm really looking forward to meet a lot of you and try some other O's and especially some A's since i had to pass up on Stephent28's UTE....i'm still pissed about it, but i have to finish the bathroom's plumbing before the lady lets me go !!
Can't wait to be there,
Yves |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | This will be my 1st tour, and I can't wait! I couldn't play a song to save my life, so I'm hoping to just soak it all in and enjoy watching the folks with actual talent.
I'm looking forward to meeting people, trying out tons of guitars, and watching the Ovation and Hamer magicians turn piles of raw materials into amazing instruments.
My Redwood is at the mothership for spot removal... I was tardy in sending it in, so not sure if it will be playable by the time we get there...
Expectations? I expect the guys sitting next to me on the plane will have spent half as much as I did for their tickets.
Fears? acute GAS, of course! |
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Location: ranson,wva | i just hope that i get a seat to my self on the train....thats close to the dindig car,bar and the head..lol im verry excited.....jason |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Mauray
Yves Please explain the ROC to those attending as best you can. I understand that you do not comprehend the end of Canada at the Rocky Mountains.... let alone Vancouver Island. |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | I'll try my best.....then again, i've been to Vancouver Island before to see the Butchart Gardens back in 2001, so i know what the ROC looks and feels like... :)
Wait til i start speaking french with Jerome....
Yves |
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Location: south east Michigan | From what I hear we have more signed up this year that the previous two.
On the downside we'll all really miss a couple of the regulars..... maybe.... if we have the time.... ;) |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Hello Yves. I used to reside and attend college just south of the border from you. I frequented Montreal a lot back then, cos it was a heck of a lot closer than NYC, "big" city-wise. I still remember how fun it was to get lost there, and whenever that happens, I just do the best I can to find my way back to the intersection of University and Renee-Levesque ... then I know I'm not lost anymore :D
My wife and I went to Vancouver Island for our honeymoon, and have visited the Butchart Gardens among many things. What is the ROC? |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | ROC = Rest of Canada, usually anything west of the Rockies, if i understand this correctly. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Except if you're from BC...
Where it means everywhere East! |
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Location: Up North | ROC means anywhere in Canada besides Toronto (The centre of the universe for anyone living there) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Yes, its my first time: I am thankful for:
1. My dear wife allowing me to attend even thought she is staying home with our two children 4 1/2 and 4 months;
2. for being able to get an afordable rate for my flight;
3. being able to meet all the folks I've sort of come to know over the past several months (even though I have been a member for years, I just started posting several months ago);
4. For the Ovation Factory and Kaman Corp. for putting their fine instruments into the hands of the worlds players for all these years;
5. God for giving me the ability and patience to learn a skill that has paid the bills and been my constant companion for 40 years now this month
Brad, you failed to mention that it is customary for Newbies wear their underwear over their pants at their first Factory tour.
UUUUUHHHHHH..............NO! :cool: :D :cool: |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I will really miss the Canadian-French trying to teach the European French how to speak Francias!
Probably as much fun as it has been for us Yanks to teach the Brits how to speak Anglish!
As an acclimated native of Worshington State I feel overly qualified to moderate.
Y'all are going to have a wonderful time bonding with each other. Everyone should come away with a better sense of community and an appreciation that we all don't live in the same town! |
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Location: Paris/France | It will be fun. :D
But I sincerely regret that you and some other members can't be with us for the Tour.
I will be so happy to meet you all!!
Maybe next year or before if you come to France... ;)
J :) |
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| "Y'all are going to have a wonderful time bonding with each other."
Does this mean Jason is bringing his glue? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Talkin`about Jason,I wonder how ìt`s goin` with his speaker-cab-project..... :)
Vic |
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Location: Midland, MI | This will be my first tour, as well. I'm looking forward to meeting one or two (dozen) of you in person. I'm afraid T28 will show up with the palm tree uke and I'll buy it back. Wait, no, I'm not afraid of that. I'm afraid that SWMBO will take a couple of rounds out of me if I come home with anything more than I left with. ;) |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Well you'll just have to leave something behind then pal. |
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TOUR NEWBIES ..... Atteennn-SHUN!