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| ....that when I asked about Parlour guitars I got a couple of jokes and no real replies and when I asked about the advantages of an Al Di Meola over a custom legend I got no replies at all, yet when I do the jokes I get a trillion reactions?
Can I be the OFC court jester?
By the way - it was my birthday on the 20th and I appear to have received the same number of cards as cliff did a few days later. When I was a kid the UK branch of the Roy Rogers fan club used to send me a card. What kind of a club is this? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Timing!
First of all, Happy Birthday!
You need to drop hints, early and often, to maximize the birthday thing. As for attracting serious answers to an enigma - pure timing and dumb luck. There are very few AD owners and I know that Tony C has been fairly busy! Try posting it as a poll question!
Today - most posts where just to see if still works. Have you given the "directory" a test spin yet? |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm an AD-II owner and I love mine.
The AD has a sneaky volume boost button not found on the CL. There might be different bracing. The AD has a AAA top. Lots of abalone. I'd like to think that the best available material and a little extra attention would go into their top of the line wood-top guitar.
Does that help?
Oh....and Happy Birthday |
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Location: SoCal | Not sure if 1719 CL is still available as a new model (deep bowl, non cutaway.) As far as the other CL models v. DiMeola - cutaways but DiMeola is only deep bowl. All have the OP-Pro w/XLR. As acoustic, put a cutaway mid bowl against the cutaway deep bowl (Al DiMeola) - difference in favor of DiMeola. Plugged in, doubt if that much difference.
Older non-cutaway deep bowl CL v. cutaway deep bowl DiMeola - personally, I noticed a difference in favor of the CL but I was also comparing the 30th Anniv CL (bearclaw, bone nut, etc.
Difference? Not apples v. oranges, very little difference. Yet, if you want a deep bowl cutaway - DiMeola. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Happy Belated Birthday schroeder!
Hope you have many more..Birthdays and Ovations! :) |
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| Thank you. |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | I have to agree with Tony. I have an AD-I with the Optima electronics and absolutly love it. I have done the A-B side by side comparitive with the regular CL and I would go for the AD. Not to mention all the eye candy on the AD over the CL. The gain boost button is pretty cool but Im not good enough that I want to exagerate my mistakes with it if Ya know what I mean. The biggest difference I found between the AD and CL is the neck is just a tad thinner. I just got a new 2005 collectors and found the neck on it (regular size)just enough wider that I am able to get these fat stumpy fingers to play a little more "clean". Not much difference, but enough to feel. |
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| Fly Guy - thanks, that's what I was looking for.
I've been playing 30 years and I've always ended up with cramps in my left hand an hour or so into playing. Some guitars more than others - my beloved 69 telecaster when I spent my youth playing in blues/rock bands used to kill me by the end of the evening. Over the years I've found comfier ones but it wasn't until I slapped my hand around that CL neck that I knew what I'd been missing. It is simply the best guitar I have ever played. I was just curious whether an ADM was actually any better plugged in - acoustic is not important when you do it for a living - and as I've got a clean boost pedal the button doesn't mean much to me either. I figure a Longneck is next on the shopping list.
I worry about that humbucker on your BEAUTIFUL strat (in your gallery) - it just don't look right. My 9 year old son has one on his Korean strat copy and I keep telling him it's all wrong - he just flicks it on and plays Smoke on the water til i leave him in peace. Nobody listens to me..... |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Happy birthday.
Cliff had a birthday? |
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| Thank you. I think he did - check the How OLd are You poll. |
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Location: Midland, MI | /me whips out the Palm Tree uke and starts strumming
Happy Birthday, to youuuuuuuuuu
Happy Birthday, to youuuuuuuuuu
Happy Birthday, Mister Presiden....
er, uh, sorry
As to your questions. I quote, 'Ours is not to reason why, only to do or die.' Or was it 'do, then die?' '...post then die?'
Anyway, happy b-day! |
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Location: boulder | Recently I have played a N769 (Craftsman, built in 1992)which is a 1769 with extra abalone around fretboard as far as I can tell. However the neck has a very, very sharp v shape which took a little while to get used to. When I did, it was hard to put that model down. Sound wise it sounded/s really tight as a custom legend does, nice tone, nice string clarity. I would love to own a 1769 -ad-II with the op pro electronics, deep bowls are my preference now. I would be curious to hear a dimeola model with a contour bowl. mike |
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Location: NJ | Schroed;
Happy Belated Birthday.
20th. You share the date with my older brother - he's 56. Also the date that John Glenn orbited the Earth (I remember watching it on TV).
It's funny. Two of the numerous people that I have an affinity and influence from have been George Harrison and Jimmy Buffett. I had always remember that Harrison's birthday was Feb. 25th - the day after mine. Around this time last year on the radio they did a Harrison tribute for his birthday. The announced mentioned a little know fact that when Harrison was born, there was some kind of clerical error made on the records and it listed the wrong date. To avoid confusion, his parents/family decided to just recognize his birthday on the 25th, when in actuality, he was born on the 24th, same as me.
On the morning of my past birthday I got up early and proceeded to the "reading room". There I cracked open the current novel by Jimmy Buffett. Jeanette had gotten it for me for Christmas (Buffett's birthday), but I'd been tied up with a couple other books. I figured my birthday was good time to start it. So, I open up to the first page and the first paragraph starts with:
". . George Harrison died today . . ."
I immediately closed the book and proceeded to my shower as it was just TOO early in the morning to be pondering how weird shit like this happens . . . |
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Location: New Ulm, MN | Cliff.... isn't shit supposed to happen in the "reading room"? ;)
Spunky B. |
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Why is it?
