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Location: Brighty in Blighty | ProfessorBB - aha, pics please. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Adamas SSB wood-topped proto on the left, Ovation 1547 SSB proto on the right.
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | WOW! Gorgeous. |
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| Paul, any progress on these tuners? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I first met and got to know Adrian Legg in Frankfort in the mid 70's. He was the guitar tech and demo man for Rose-Morris who was the UK distributor for Ovation at the time.
Fast forward to the late early 90's, Trace had just introduced the acoustic amplifier and they were coming over to help Kaman launch it and were bring a demo man. Mark Gooday, the MD of Trace said to me "You'll love this guy, he's totally unknown and a great player. We found him driving a delivery truck in northern England."
So we go to the NAMM show in Chicago and go into the sound room where he's running the amp through it's paces. When he's done and it gets quiet Mark says, "Bill, I'd like to introduce you, come on over here." Adrian looks up and say "Hi Bill". I go "Hey Adrian". Mark Gooday is gobsmacked and speachless. I said, "That lowden you'er playing isn't really making it" And Adrian replies "Been meaning to talk to you about that"
So we sit down right there and design his black SSB adamas, with all Keith keys.
As soon as Adrian got it several months later the first thing he did was take a pocket knife to all the braces and carve the living shit out of everything, a little bit at a time, just to be scientific about it. He told me at one point he got it too weak, I think he was in Des Moins and he took his pocket knife to the picture frame in the hotel room and got some wood and super glued it into place to build the brace back up.
As I recall all that was special about the guitar was the Keith tuners and ebony fingerboard(I think it had ebony) and being super shallow. He may have had a bone saddle.
His main objective was to get something that would fit into the overhead bin on an airline so he'd never have to check it.
There's the story on Adrian's guitar. |
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Location: Indiana | Great story Beal. Thanks. |
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| Adrian may not have become the most famous of the musicians Ovation helped/worked with. But Wow! what a guitarist this guy is! Watching him is mesmerizing.
Bill you have so many great stories! What a cool thing it is to have you here. This is great stuff. |
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Location: SoCal | Gee Beal, can you just tell everybody a cool story every night at bedtime? |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | WOW Beal. Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
So it was a one off custom build? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Beale's going to tell us bedtime stories at the North Carolina jam. Maybe he could organize a powerpoint presentation to go with it? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | no, the NC jam could be a story in the future....... |
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Location: GA USA | To me, this has been a year of interesting OFC stories, with the Amelia thing and all. I think it's been a good one for us to this point. |
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Just what was the Adrian Legg SSB Adamas?
