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Location: NJ | does anyone know what happened to that bluebird on e bay? yes the one that belonged to Glen Campbell. Was it sold? if so how much did he get? does the guy still have it? if not who bought it and for how much. I am just curious as to the value being more because it was Glen's guitar or because it was a limited run of Ovations. |
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Location: NJ | Okay, I'll bite . . . . "what's a bluebird?" |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Al, i think i remember that he was asking well over $1000(maybe $1700?) for it and it never met reserve..I had receaved an e-mail from the guy who owned it before it went on e-bay and he never got back to me with a price.Next thing i know its on e-bay..If i remember correctly,it went thru e-bay twice and it never met reserve..It may be that someone e-mailed him and cut a deal after e-bay ended.....It had the UK2 style pick ups..The bluebird i had was the one with the grey stained mahogany neck and the regular deacon style pick ups..I think Bill remembered the grey stained neck bluebird..Im not sure why grey? It did not match with the rest of the guitar.I thought it was a replacement neck at first until Bill confirmed there was one bluebird with a grey stained neck. |
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Location: SoCal | The bidding on ebay went up over $2000 but didn't hit the guys reserve. I bookmarked the auction and still have it. Click on the link below as the pictures are still there. If you find out what happened to it, I'ld love to know.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1510281612&r=0&t... |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | 300 posts al!!!!!!!! i'll never catch up. that represents allot of time on your part. thanks.
brown is beautiful bill. now all i have to do is make the cover of the rolling stone--------- |
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Location: NJ | russ I think some folks would say I need a life. because the nature of my business is internet based I tend to spend a lot of time of the computer. Since this site is my "baby" I check in often....I guess I should be playing more guitar... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Maybe it's me, but people seem to keep overlooking what I think is the most significant part of the "BlueBird" and that is that it is not made of wood, but rather the same poly as the UKII. I also was interested in the guitar and after a point the guy stopped answering me. :( |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Al,
Congrats on the 300! Funny how fast they build up, isn't it?
Cliff, check out the link for the bluebird. We made a handful for glen. Made one brownbird 12. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Sam, yours started as blue, it just changed once it got on the wood and aged. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Bill, that makes since because grey just did not look good with the blue and white glitter on that guitar....Did,Glen request it that way or did ovation decide the color ? |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | bill were any of the bluebirds 12's?? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Glen wanted it blue. Some were 12 strings. |
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Location: SoCal | Obviously, Bill knows the whole story on the Bluebirds, but what I heard was that there were six made for Glen, 3 6's and 3 12's. I've seen Glen play a 12 with 2 pickups, one bridge pick up alone, and one with a plain neck, no binding are diamond inlays.
Bill, can you give us the full story on these guitars? I feel like I'm saying "Daddy, tell us what it was like in the old days." |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | This was all covered somewhere on here before. (See if I get the same story this time!) There were less than 10 and most went to Glen, 6 and 12. There were a couple that didn't make it to him and Sam has one of these. One of his 6 strings got stolen in Boston. There was a brown 12 that we made and kept. It's on it's way to tequila land now.
They were all foam viper bodies (with the tummy cut)with the same skeleton as the UK2 with mahogony necks, preechers I think, (maybe Deacons) |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | yes amigos i am fixing to study ornithology (i better look it up to see if i spelled it right)thanks to bill. the only known brown bird 12 in captivity will be forever pampered and tickled at the musicamex guitar spa. i hope you ovation amigos come and see this rare bird someday. actually i haven't seen it yet it's waiting in santa fe---muchisimas gracias bill--i will be your caddy and polish your caddy whenever you visit!
ba ba ba bird bird bird, the bird is the word. |
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Location: SoCal | Russ:
If you have the brownbird 12 when in L.A., then I will be sure to make time to see the guitar, ah, I mean, you.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Wow, I just stumbled onto this site totally by accident but it is great! I am the present owner of the blue (gray) necked Bluebird six-string...thanks once again Sam! It certianly been informative to read all these posts about these illusive guitars. I too, had wondered about the odd color match between the neck and body. Another odd thing is that it has no decal on the headstock. I think this possibly may have been the very first one made, as the serial # (E5999), pot date codes and inspection stamp(?) place manufacture around late '74 or early '75.
Here is a pic of a Bluebird 12-string which I also own. This one was airline damaged when Glen gave it to a well known Nashville songwriter. Ovation refineshed it for him in a very non-Bluebird like manner.
When I got it I simply had to get it restored back to original form and what better oppertunity, having the original six-string as a model. I sent it to a luthier in Ontario along with the six-string body and 13 months later (yes, he's good but takes his time :) )I got it back and I was totally blown away by the results; the accruacy in recreating the complex paint scheme and also the way it played and sounded.
I have no idea if it will ever be worth any amount of money but don't really care as I never have any intention of selling. After being an avid vintage Fender collector for a long time it is great having some rare (this may be the last existing 12-string) yet inexpensive ($1300 including restore), and one of the coolest looking guitars on the planet. My '53 Tele has been collecting a lot of dust since I got these!
I am a big fan of Glen's and when I used to see him play these, I thought they were Vipers with fancy paint jobs, but really, the only thing thsy have in common are the body/headstock shape.
Anyway, great site, I'll be back...here's the picture.
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Location: SoCal | To everybody who's bored talking about Bluebirds, go on the the next message. For everybody else,
I was watching Glen Campbell on some videos from the 1970's and 80's and saw at least 3 different Bluebird 12 strings that he played.
The first was, possibly, Wayne's guitar, which he played in the late 70's and again in the late 1980's. This guitar had the two Ovation humbucker p/u's and the Deacon neck. This may have been two different guitars in that the older one had the old style bridge, and the one I saw in the late 80's had the newer style. In between, in the early 1980's (82 and 84), He played one with only an aftermarket humbucker in the bridge position, no neck pickup, and what looks like just one knob. Still had the Deacon neck.
The last one, and I think I saw this one in the early 90's or late 80's, had a plain neck and I don't remember the pickups. Have to see if I can find the video.
You know, I know a guy who plays in Glen's band and I could ask him to ask Glen, but he probably wouldn't remember.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Hi Paul, I know I'm biased but I never tire of Bluebird discussions
According to the fellow from whom I obtained the 12-string 'Bird, who worked with Glen quite a bit during the late '70's, early '80's, Glen had only two 12-string versions during this time. This may or may not be correct but there is the one I have, which was left mostly stock (there is no evidence of any tampering under the hood), and a second one with which he experimented with a few different pickup configurations including the single aftermarket setup that you refer.
As for bridges, in any pics or video I have from '79-'80 onward, the new style is used so I just assumed the bridges were just upgraded to the 'improved' version which came out at the time.
The plain ‘Preacher-12' type neck was never seen until the late ‘80's, early ‘90's, long after Ovation’s solid body production had ceased. That would seem to indicate that this was perhaps a replaced neck.
I did make some inquiries to the band mate you mentioned and, like you said, Glen doesn’t have a lot of recollection about the specifics of his early guitars. There were quite a few different instruments over the 30+ years and a lot of “roarin’”going on there for quite a while as well!
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Now I need to dig through my videos of GC, I recollect a fairly recent one where he played a bluebird 12 string and it was the only Ovation he played.
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remember the blue bird on e bay?????
