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Location: Hicksville, NY | This is just for fun.
Name one artist who plays, or has/had played an Ovation in his/her lifetime. It doesn't have to be an artist who endorses Ovation, but someone who plays them either on stage, in the studio, or wherever.
I understand that most of you can name more than one, but try to keep it one-at-a-time. Let's see how far this thread will go ... |
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Alex Lifeson (of Rush) |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | ME! |
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Location: boulder | bob weir-grateful dead -long time ago/early 80's |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | George Dalaras(on the left holding adamas,1979 1687-9)with sting,springstein,peter gabriel
With Ian Anderson,Dalaras is Playing his Black custom Legend
And finally with Al Demiola who is playing his custom legend
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Location: NJ | Al Stewart/Peter White |
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Location: East Tennessee | Jerry Reed. He played one when he appeared on the audience segment of the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Opps I just named two. :D |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | trboy took my answer. I was going to say me. Alot of people don't this, but I am famous. How about Ana Barbara. |
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Location: Keller, TX | I'll take the easy one.. Nancy Wilson |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I'm a celebrity......I get noticed from just having my picture on the OFC!
Just the other day a good looking young lady noticed me on the street and said...."You're a member of the Ovation Fan Club,right?"...as she handed me a pencil and paper. "Why yes I am" I said proudly!
"Then can you get Al's autograph for me?" she asked!
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Location: Flushing, MI | Didn't Clapton play one for a minute or two??? |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Conway Twitty (holding one on the cover of the "Hello Darlin" LP)
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Johnny Lee (Urban Cowboy fame) sang "Lookin' for Love"(In All The Wrong Places)
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Location: Connecticut | I saw a picture of Clarence White with one on a Byrds web site. And did anyone mention Roy Clark? |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | may I add Billy Ray Cyrus |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Originally posted by Irgendeiner:
may I add Billy Ray Cyrus I wouldn't if I were you! ;)
My shout - Freddie Mercury (not one of nature's guitars hero's I grant you, but a player nonetheless. Also worthy of mention is his classic ad-lib line "This shitty guitar never plays the chords I want it to play" on Queen's Live at Webley album. He was attempting to play a Tele at the time, not an O!)
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Dean Friedman.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by cliff:
Al Stewart/Peter White Their "Rhymes In Rooms" live album should be used as an advertisement for Ovation. It should be required listening for Ovation fans. |
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Location: Freeport, IL | Greetings,
John Lennon, of course. And see above.
http://www.npr.org/news/images/2004/nov/05/john_lennon200.jpg
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | ANN Wilson, of Heart (see "The Road Home" video, she plays her custom Balladeer 12-string AND a Viper on it)
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Wow there are alot of them. How about Keith Partrich. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Hey this makes my 100th post. How about a little loving. |
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Location: NJ | ". . How about Keith Partrich . ."
A couple weeks ago, Jeanette and a couple of the neighbors went (as a goof) to see David Cassidy at a local community theatre. The unanimous consensus was that he totally su-huh-huh-huh-ucked.
He came across like a second rate Tom Jones/Englebert Vegas act.
At one point, he sat on a stool with an acoustic (not an Ovation, btw), strummed a chord and said "ooh, needs bass". He started adjusting the pre-amp controls and totally screwed up the guitar's settings. His guitarist came running out (it was his guitar) to fix it and looked fairly pissed.
It was $20/ticket and they left halfway through . . .
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Location: NJ | Got that one already, Master Witko.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
Got that one already, Master Witko.
Guess Again . . . Oh, sorry teacher. Let me stand in the corner wearing a dunce cap.
How 'bout ... Freddie Mercury. |
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Location: NJ | BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTT!!!
Wrong!
You REALLY need t'read through these better . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Who decided Cliff was no longer inept. I thought I just agreed he was more inept than me. |
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Location: South Portland, ME | Anyone get Joe Walsh??
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Sorry dstan, Joe Walsh isn't PLAYING an Ovation there. He passed out drunk for the third time in one day at the recording studio. The band by this time was getting a little pissed. They shaved his eyebrows and posed him with the O. They showed him the pictures the next time he came to the studio and he has been sober since. True story. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Maybe I'm frugging blind. Cliff keeps disqualifying me but I can't find my error. The hell with all of you. David Cousins ???
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Location: Vermont USA | This guy plays in Vermont every week he's not great but can hang in there with everyone else. The one and only Paul Carmen Ciampaglia
WHO??????????
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Location: South Portland, ME | Actually the Walsh pic comes from an appearance on the Stern show though I like your story better... |
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Location: South Portland, ME | Although I've heard the O belongs to Fred Norris. |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Since CWK2 threw out Kinky Friedman (and, I'm still looking for a copy of Live at the Lone Star Cafe), let's not forget about John Hartford. |
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Location: Spain | mark knofler and also a personal favorite steve harley.O was used on a "LIVE" tv performance of come up and see me (make me smile) |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Driftwood:
val doonican is Irish (i think) My point was that it would be only the Brits who would be aware of the likes of Val Doonican, Sid Little or Jasper Carrott, especially as the last two were crap comedians. But you're right Mr Doonican was Irish, but he was all over UK television and radio in the 60's and 70's. One of my first ever professional gigs when I was about 17 years old was playing rhythm guitar on a Val Doonican tour (that's not something I generally make public) He had a 1621 Artist which was mixed really low, mostly as a prop, while I played his parts on my Folklore. I never attempted to Phil his Cracken. Thank you Mr Doenges for getting this thread into the gutter, where I'm used to residing. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | dstan, are you say I made up the STORY about Joe Walse? I was there. Yeah, that's the ticket. I took the picter yeah that's the ticket. I took the pcter with my spy camera. I'm James Bond. Thats the ticket. Ask my wife, Morgan Fairchild. |
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Location: closely held secret | Well, ever since the bus incident he's had to cut back... |
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Location: South Portland, ME | Originally posted by OldLiverJones:
dstan, are you say I made up the STORY about Joe Walse? I was there. Yeah, that's the ticket. I took the picter yeah that's the ticket. I took the pcter with my spy camera. I'm James Bond. Thats the ticket. Ask my wife, Morgan Fairchild. I will, she's right here... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The best was watching Bruce Bolin, the Gibson AR guy, play Mack O'Connors 1983 C-Series at a NAMM show in a duet with BB King. Seymour Duncan has the pictures to proove it. |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Bellamy Brothers on " Let your Love Flow" played Adamas (x2). I saw an advert on TV this week for a CD and it featured that single and showed the video. They were Blue fronted.
Someone mentioned Mark Knofler, who I have meet on a number of occassions. Next time I see him I will ask what Ovations he has. Last time we were together in my car, we only talked Strats, as I had not yet bought my 1778 LX. It won't be till next September 06 till the next meeting.
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Location: North Texas | Mine too. A bunch of us went to see his band at a club in Dallas, back when they first crossed the pond. Wow! Tiny venue, huge entertainment. |
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Location: South Portland, ME | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Dave Matthews
BTW, he plays Celebrities. He has 4 of them.
Martin Introduces Dave Matthews Signature Model
August 24, 1999 -- Dave Matthews has been a dedicated fan of Martin guitars for years. His more recent acoustic tour with guitarist Tim Reynolds incorporated the use of several Martin instruments, in particular Dave's Vintage Series Martin Dreadnought and Tim's special effects enhanced D-35.
In honor of Dave Matthews's significant contribution to acoustic music, the Martin Guitar Company is proud to introduce the DM3MD Dave Matthews Limited Edition Signature Model. |
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Location: NJ | I remember someone posting a long while back that Matthews used an Ovation very early in his career . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | His main guitars these days are supposedly Taylors. Check out this link for a listing of what he does and has played ...
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Location: NJ | Florian Opahle.
(some of our German brethren may know of this 22-yr-old guitar whiz-kid)
Picked a copy of a new live CD "Ian Anderson plays Orchestral Jethro Tull".
Title pretty much describes it:
Anderson/small band (w/his son on drums), and a Philharmonic Orchestra.
On the front cover of the CD, I noticed a DarkBlueBurst roundhole Ovation 6-string . . .
Young Master Opahle's website lists his equipment which includes two Ovation Celebrities.
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Location: Sydney | I'm astonished that no-one's mentioned my particular hero...FRANK ZAPPA
He did some amazing guitarwork with his Ovation in the 72-76 era
Listen to 'Music for Electric Guitar and Low Budget Orchestra' from Studio Tan
or 'Stinkfoot' from Apostrophe
or "Grand Wazoo'....astonishing stuff
He got that sound by running the bridge saddle pickup of the Ovation into one of the stereo channels (clean) He then ran a magnetic soundhole pickup through a Mutron envelope filter
through a valve amp and into the other stereo channel
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Hiz, click on the link in Brad's post and post a flag on the map, so we know where Converse is. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | This is a fun thing, and I, being old and retired, have more time to search out the more or less likely Ovation players, particularly in country.
Janie Fricke has a beautiful custom made Ovation that was stolen and recovered because her initials were on the fret board. She told the story on a George Jones TV show a few years ago, on which she played the guitar.
I will now cheat and name two, I have a videotape of ROGER MILLER playing an Ovation.
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Wow! :eek:
I just disappeared for four days, and am quite overwhelmed by the amount of responses from this thread. This is just way so awesome!! :eek: :)
I'm glad to know that many artists, apart from the ones posted in Ovation's own website, play them. Artists I know or heard of, and from artists I never heard of. Either way, I'm glad to know and this thread just made me appreciate O's more and more. :)
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Location: Mt Clemens, MI USA | My favorite guitarist, Jimmy Page.
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Location: fremont | ME,PLAYING MY 1990 COLLECTORS SHALLOW BOWL IN MY
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Location: South Portland, ME | Originally posted by unpluggedthumb:
My favorite guitarist, Jimmy Page.
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Location: Scotland | I think you'll find that the guitar in the picture is not an Ovation. Page had a couple of triple-necks built by Brit luthier Andy Manson, so it's likely one of those. |
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Location: NJ | Master Manson also did a very nice small-bodied (smaller than a parlour) guitar for Ian Anderson. |
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| Andy Manson is a real good guitar builder. Hugh Manson (his brother) is phenomenal. |
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Location: NJ | . . and Charlie's a "killah". |
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Location: ms | Todd Rundgren. |
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| I'm gettin' old. I didn't even see that one comin'. :o |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | it's the meds... |
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Location: Mt Clemens, MI USA | Originally posted by dstan:
Originally posted by unpluggedthumb:
My favorite guitarist, Jimmy Page.
He plays a double neck O on the No Quarter DVD. |
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Location: Mt Clemens, MI USA | My ADD is not getting worse! This quote is from some website discusing the No Quarted/Unledded show.
It says Page DID indeed play an Ovation Double neck.
"...guitars he used in Unledded: an Ovation 6/12 doubleneck; a custom-made acoustic tripleneck, which adds a mandolin to the mix; and several conventional six string acoustics."
And
From factbites.com
"Some of Jimmy Page's acoustic instruments include several Ovation guitars (including 2 Ovation Elite double neck acoustics), a Martin D-28 and a D-45, a Gibson J-200, a Gretsch 12 string guitar as well as mandolins (a Fender and a Gibson), a banjo and a harp guitar."
So, I again submit Jimmy Page as an Ovation player! It was an elite style, cherry colored with black around the edge as I recal. |
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Location: NJ | He had an all-black one, as well. |
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| Kerry Livgren of Kansas. |
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Location: SunShine State | Garth Brooks |
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Location: Scotland | Garth Brooks? That settles it, if that fat wanker plays one I'm selling all of mine. Guilt by association. |
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Location: SoCal | "played" one. Long time ago.... |
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Location: Scotland | still... it's not worth the risk |
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Location: SoCal | Well, if you feel that way, I'll give you $1.78 for the GC shiny bowl.... |
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Location: Canton,GA | Ben Dover (Rick Snyder) and Tennesee Tucker (Pat Coletta) a famous singing duo from Atlanta you really cant mention one without the other !!! |
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| Ben Dover??? OUCH! |
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Location: SoCal | That picture of Szabo is real interesting. Looks like a Legend, but it's got the 5 point bridge. Bet it's a GC Deluxe Balladeer. |
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Location: USA | have to drop my hat in here and say me as well :)
I tend to endorse them everytime I perform...people come up..ask me what I play..my sound..etc...and a consveration always comes up about Adamas and Ovation.
Im not on the payroll but I know Ive sold quite a few for them.
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Location: Sydney | Here's Frank Zappa playing his Ovation
(with Norman Gunston on harp)
Not a very good pic...but Zappa only used his Ovation in the studio
this was the only pic I could find on the net
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Location: Midland, MI | A Steve Vai song popped up on my iPod yesterday that had an acoustic guitar on rhythm. I swear it was that 'classic' Ovation sound, but I can't remember the name of the track to go research it. Anyone know if he's used Os? |
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Location: Birmingham. U.K. | Steve Hackett, here he is with a UK2 around his neck.  |
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Location: USA | I was watching the Vh1 pay to play...An Eddie Rabbit video came on and guess what kind of guitar he was playing...
You guessed it...An Ovation.
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Location: ms | John Denver |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Originally posted by gulfcoast:
John Denver Got a pic? I've only seen Denver with Guilds. And in public he was pretty much always seen with his double pickguard Guild (pickguards both above and below the center hole) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by dmkozak:
he was pretty much always seen with his double pickguard Guild (pickguards both above and below the center hole) Here's a pic of the guitar ...
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | ?????Why-z'at. Was Denver an especially sloppy strummer?
Or did he wear a hole in it like Willy? |
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Location: NJ | So, . . . that's TWO things he owned that "didn't fly" . . . . |
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Location: NJ | (sorry.) |
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Location: Mechanicsburg,Pa. | Danny Bonaduce Also known as Danny Partridge. Not much talent there besides not having a clue how to play. :p |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by cliff:
So, . . . that's TWO things he owned that "didn't fly" . . . . CLEANUP! AISLE WEASER!! FOOD ON MONITOR...(AGAIN)!! |
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Location: NJ | nice! |
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| I think you should carry a health warning cliffy..... |
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Location: NJ | I do . . |
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Location: ms | I actually saw John Denver playing an Adamas at a live show that was on TV many moons ago. I remember the sound of the guitar really standing out on the song Calypso.(not sure about the spelling) But I like that song. |
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Location: Malden, Massachusetts | Davey Johnstone - Elton John's original guitarist
plays a bunch of O's on the Madison Square Garden
DVD from a few year's back, And some other guy plays a Mandy, too.
He also plays a green metallic strat - worth mentioning only because it's so ugly!
Quick - fast-forward to the next song and he's back to the O's!! |
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Location: china | In HK: Koma Wong(kaku wong), Paul Wong(guangzhong wong) |
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Location: USA | KK Downing and Glenn Tipton...Priest.
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Location: Mechanicsburg,Pa. | Nancy and Ann Wilson of Heart both are known to play Ovations from time to time. |
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Location: ms | Arron Tippin |
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Location: ms | Lead singer for Lonestar.Early videos he plays a red white and blue one. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Has anyone mentioned Jesse Colin Young?
At least at one point in his career. From the back of his "Very Best of" CD.
I'll let the experts try to identify.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Is that the JCY album that he forgot to get dressed for the picture? |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Originally posted by cwk2:
Is that the JCY album that he forgot to get dressed for the picture? No, this is a new compilation, 2 CD set copyrighted 2005. I got it as a gift for Christmas. |
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Location: NJ | Didn't Jesse have something t'do with that ". . odd strings out of one channel, even strings out the other . ." on the stereo pickups?? |
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Location: Mechanicsburg,Pa. | The musician guy on Lost. :D |
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Location: Omaha | Can't believe we're on page 13 and no one has mentioned Tom Scholz and Boston!
The intro to More Than A Feeling just doesn't sound right on anything other than an Ovation! (Their latest release, Corporate America, even has a strangely roundback looking guitar on the cover...) |
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Location: NJ | ray davies |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | Lindsey Buckingham... (it took me a while to find the interview. Here's the part.
From 1977
LB: Onstage I play a (stock) Les Paul Custom, one of those twentieth anniversary models. Before I joined the band I'd been playing a Stratocaster (which I love dearly), but for some reason it didn't sound quite full enough 'live'. I still use a Stratocaster more in the studio than the Gibson, but the Les Paul seems to be a very good, basic, solid stage guitar with a lot of output and fullness. I'm really happy with it. I keep a Strat tuned to open D onstage for "Over my Head". And Rick Turner form Alembic put his little Stratoblaster in it. For "Landslide" my acoustic is an Ovation onstage, although I used a Martin D-18 on the recording. The Ovation's got a built-in pickup; it's great. It doesn't really sound like an acoustic guitar, but it works so much better 'live' than to mike a real acoustic. |
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Location: Tennessee | "It doesn't really sound like an acoustic guitar ..."
Ay caramba. |
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| There's a tv commercial running here for a collected hits of the 90s or something similar which features Paul Weller playing a beautiful sunburst, full body Custom Legend.
Do Paul Weller or The Jam mean anything to you guys? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | dig (dug) The Jam... |
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Location: Tennessee | ... and The Style Council. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I was cleaning out the garage today and found 2 boxes of guitar player mags from the 70's and 80's. On the august 1985 cover there is a great shot of Earl Klugh (where has he been lately?) playing what looks like a Country Artist with a cutaway. In the same mag there is an Ovation ad with a pic of cwk2 and Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon both playing 85 collectors. |
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Location: ms | HE is in a ad in feb 06 Acoustic Guitar Mag,with a new cd. |
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Location: Indiana | Rich Williams of Kansas. On the "Two for the Show" album he used an O Classic on his guitar solo and "Dust in the Wind". I remember asking him about the O. He told me he liked it.
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| Nobody has said Joey Eppard. He's my favorite musician at the moment, personally. He uses all Ovation acoustics, not sure what he uses electric.
He's an amazing guitarist. I'm not sure how he plays, but most people say it's like a combination of flamesco and slap bass techniques.
www.purevolume.com/3 - His band. He has half of a solo set from a show on there. Listen to Bramfatura, a super-fast guitar solo by him. It's amazing.
www.purevolume.com/joeyeppard - Him. He has a solo album out and this has a few songs from it. |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Nick Mason of Pink Floyd on page 291 in the book " A Personal History of Pink Floyd". The only person I know with a real 250 GTO. |
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| There's a Dr Hook cd out here (Greatest Hits or whatever) with Dennis playing a Balladeer (?) on the cover. |
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Location: Malden, Massachusetts | Just got the 4 DVD set from "LIVE AID" 1985
It was fun just spotting all the O's
10 hrs of music and they did a great a mix on a lot of it.
Included is the video of "Do The Know It's Christmas" - with an unidentified guitarist play a Balladeer. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I was at that show. Look for the guy smoking a joint about 50 feet from the stage.... |
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Location: Braman, OK | Nick Mason? I didn't know Ovation made drums... *rimshot* |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | that was me |
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Location: No Town, California | Godsmack, Nikki Six, Vince Neil, and of course Freddie Mercury. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Three months dead and this thread come back to the top.
Someone was digging deep. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Very funny, Paul. :D |
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Location: SoCal | ...but true.... |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | The guy that got kicked out of "The Apprentice" two seasons ago |
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Location: Reno, NV | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Three months dead and this thread come back to the top.
Someone was digging deep. You mean a year and three months! |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
...but true.... ...and I've never played anything BUT Ovations. Weird, huh? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by cliff:
Witko(for NOW, anyway . . .). Yeah.. that kinda creeps me out.
Do we need to schedule an intervention for Dave at the tour???
On the other hand... even when Dave is done with this clearence sale, I bet he'll still have 3 times the number of Ovations I have.
You will... right Dave???
Please tell me you will. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | yeah, he probably will. and then he'll start getting more. |
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Location: south east Michigan | psst... I think you're right there Bill.
And I don't think it will take very long. |
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| Joey Eppard of the band 3! Love that man. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Haven't read back over the whole thread to see if she's been mentioned already;
Joan Armatrading. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | WOW .... I thought this thread died a long time ago. I never realized that this would come back to haunt me! :p |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | John Denver played Guilds most of his career, then switched to custom made Taylors for the last few years. During live shows, he also picked up a Les Paul for a few numbers. I saw him maybe a dozen times. If my recollection is correct, the PBS special that airs now and then shows both he and Johnny Cash playing Ovations in a short outdoor scene, and I thought I saw Denver playing an Ovation during a segment in the seating area of the Sydney Opera House. |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | I can't believe that no-one has has mentioned Jimmy Page here!
(Well I scrolled through the first 8 pages of this post; got tired and searched the board after that)
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Yeah, I know, explains the Ibanez 6/12 thingy in my signature!
Tell me no-one else her ever bought a posing guitar!
Might that be a title for another thread?
Hmmmm....
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Location: Edmond, Oklahoma | J’Anna Jacoby. In addition to violin, she plays an Ovation mandolin in Rod Stewart's band. I just had a memory of seeing her (with Rod Stewart) on TV a year or so ago. Browsing the picture gallery at www.jannajacoby.com, there is a picture captioned "With Rod 2002 World Tour" that shows her playing an Ovation Mandolin. |
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