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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | The Denver Gang did it. Got together and picked a bit on some very fine guitars. Elginacres brought #43 and he needs to tell his acquisition story for all to hear. Here's a guitar that he bought in 1985 and played three shows a day for, what, eight years? It was his traveling tour instrument. Nothing more, nothing less. At the slothead reunion, we're told the consensus was that it is by far the most played of the originals. That said, besides a little fretboard finish wear, the thing still looks showroom fresh and sounds incredible with its second generation electronics. It is rather unbelieveable how well the Adamas is constructed and holds together over the years.
He also needs to tell the story of Neil Diamond's stage rig and what he uses for his Ovation versus his other guitiars. Great stuff. |
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Location: Australia | ....I wonder what happened to Neil Diamond's slothead.
....it looks like the OFC Adamas prototype ! |
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Location: New York, NY | Neil Diamond's slothead? I think the same guy who posted Bob Marley's O is going to put it up on the 'bay next week. ;) I hear he's looking to get 2.7 mil for it... but it's worth it cause of a break in the neck caused by Neil's lady friend (allegedy the same as Bob's lady friend but I don't want to spread any rumors) :eek: :eek: |
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Location: NJ | I have pics of neil's guitar and know the story. I hooked up with the current owner at the last namm show |
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Location: NJ | . . . . . AND???!!!!
(e-mail me tomorrow . . . I'll trade for the "scan" of a certain lil' sumpthin-sumpthin;-) |
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Location: NJ | still waiting for you to unleash the fury |
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Location: SoCal | Al, don't listen to Cliff... inquirying minds here on the board want to know (and see the pics of it). |
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Location: NJ | sorry way to busy to concern myself with this at the moment. in fact I have had the cd of photos for over a week and have yet to open them |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Al Pep:
Man of mystery and Master of Anticipation!
The answer (for some) in 7 days... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Really! He's just a little pick tease! |
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Location: Germany | Here's an interim picture of Neil and #34 (I have one more pic but can't upload it):
Karl |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Elginacres needs to jump into this thread and tell his story in detail firsthand. As a preview, he was called to provide some sound engineering tech support for Neil Diamond when his tour came through Denver. Diamond uses two racks of phenomenal equipment on stage for all of his guitars except his Ovation, which he plugs into a relatively simple stage amp, then on to the house sound board. Apparently, it speaks to his respect for the Ovation tone. |
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Location: Colorado | I'll get to it - gotta work sometime...later tonight - many of you have heard...for clarification I was talking about Hadley Hockensmith's rigs - one of Neils axe men..more later - I actually wrote it in another thread several months ago.. |
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Location: Colorado | Ok here is the gig...I was at the arena and did a little talking with his tech et.al...he runs two full 24 space shock mount racks of toys to make various instruments sound incredible - though I admit he could make my Yamaha FG-75 sound incredible...vaious acoustic instruments run through the equipment made by vendors like Eventide, TC, yamaha - lexicon - Line 6 ...Aphex - BBE - you guys know the stuff..the axes were a combination of Gibson, Larrivee, Guild, Ramirez...etc....all running through the rack of stuff...now remember I'm not knocking the rack of stuff - it all sounded --well ...perfect....There was an older sunburst pacemaker 12 hanging out by itself - which has a few featured parts in Neil's show...its output went to a tuner - to an active DI and straight to the split - nothing else. Even Hadley took pause when he realized the simplicity of that vintage great guitar sound - without the toys to sweeten it up. Great example of doing whatever it takes to make it work and sound good - and Ovation did it the simplest. |
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Slothead Number 43
