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Location: Everett, Wa | Hey all,
Was watching an Austin City Limits show from the mid 80's and saw Randy playing (more holding and rubbing actually) a deep bowl, 15 holer with a natural finsh and laminated neck. I'm new around here so can't say exactly what model it was. Anyhow, I hadn't seen his name mentioned around here and folks seem to enjoy these sightings.... |
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Location: SoCal | Randy, for a while, played a 1537 Elite. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | I remember seeing Garth Brooks in his early days playing what looked like a Balladeer. Of course now all he plays are the Takamines. |
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Location: Central Texas | I spotted a snippet during a piece on Shakira on VH1, of her playing what I think was a cutaway Balladeer. What a great combination of two of my favorite things to look at. :) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Mark
A comment like that could lead to a totally unproductive series of posts putting together these upstanding degenerate's visions of their favorite Ovation model with their favorite celebrity. Things like perky Katy Couric naked with her Celebrity mandocello could frighten us all, Madonna with any Ovation is intellectually wrong but maybe a blonde T-head could be conceived by some. Fox news centerfolds would provide many possibilities, Dolly taking a Viper to her bosom a la Cleopatra takes Sheakespeare to a new low, but I'll do it.
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Saw a Tesla dvd today that featured either Frank Hannon or Tommy Skeoch (couldn't tell which was which) playing an Ovation for "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)"...looked like a balladeer?? By no means recent footage, it was in the video they did for that song some 12 years ago, towards the end of hair-band mania :D |
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Location: Central Texas | Rich, I seem to remember (through the haze), that when we opened for Tesla many years ago, that their guitarist did in fact play that Ovation Live on a couple of tunes. I believe it was Frank Hannon because they were without Tommy Skeoch and were a one guitar band that tour. Of course, it could've been the other way around |
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Location: Shelton, Washington, USA | Saw a picture (not very clear) of Roy Clark playing what appeared to be a Slot-head. The pic was taken on the Hee-Haw set. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i saw me playing a viper in the mirror behind the bar at the club last night.
by the end of the night i was seeing two vipers and one less worm.
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Location: Central Texas | Is the extra Viper for sale? (I don't want to know about the worm. :) )
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Wow Mark,
I'll take "Posts I Didn't Expect Anyone To Recognize For $200" Alex... ;)
Of course, I should've known better :eek:
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | lost that other viper the next morning mark, but there is ALWAYS an extra worm or two behind the bar at the bottom of the mezcal bottles. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I swear on "Behind the Fame" tonight I saw Willy Nelson playing an Ovation early in his career. Somewhere in some posts there was a discussion of classic guitar pickups that mentioned Willy's pickup in his Martin. I think it was a Baldwin piano pickup adapted for a guitar.
Somewhere between a Bloody Mary Morning and Whisky River, I , like russ, saw Wynona Ryder playing my Viper in the mirror, when I woke up this morning, she and my Viper were gone and 5 lawyers were setting in my living room with offers to settle out of court. |
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Location: SoCal | Bailey:
Willie Nelson, in the 60's, played a Baldwin nylon string guitar (Jerry Reed still has and plays one that he got at about the same time). Willie's guitar got busted up in about 1970 and he had the pickup put in a Martin N-20 classical that he bought sight unseen. He's played that guitar ever since. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Maybe the Baldwin was what I saw, it had trim around the soundhole similar to Ovation's. I wonder if Jerry Reed was playing his on the Good Time Hour on one session, which I have taped, he was playing a nylon string guitar other than an Ovation. |
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