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Location: Da Windy City | darkbarguitar - 2013-09-14 2:35 PM
I've managed to annoy you, which was my only goal. Hooray me!!!!
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Location: Flahdaw | See....hehehe
AND I've taken your mind off your boring, useless, and idiotic challenges and assertions. We're ALL winners here.... |
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| Never mud wrestle a pig, you just end up dirty and the pig will enjoy it more than you. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Uh oh. Tag team from the butt buddies |
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Location: Da Windy City | ^ This thread is rapidly arriving at the point where it probably just needs to be put out of its misery. ^ |
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Location: Flahdaw | Thank the Lord. (glad I could do my part) |
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Location: Utah | I sincerely believe we are dealing with Communists or the mentally ill. My coffee is getting cold, and there's a partially completed guitar case (for the ePap12 from MWoody) needing my attentions in the workshop. I'm out.
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Location: Flahdaw | Oh no. You just fed the two trolls chocolate cake.... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | AstroDan - 2013-09-14 12:36 PM
arthurseery - 2013-09-13 6:08 PM AstroDan - 2013-09-13 3:25 PM I'm going to dump the over-priced, crappy American-made O's I own and get me a quantity of imports. I'll trade you a FINE Chinese Cedar-topped Contour Bowl Celebrity for that crappy '07C you've got.   This post is useless without pics...  
Note*** Sounds/plays/feels etc no better than anything else, really~!
BTW-- This actually sounds pretty good for what it is. It's the Cedar.
And looking at this photo... I sold that BC Rich Eagle Deluxe... DAMN I'm stupid sometimes.
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Location: Orlando, FL | Okay folks, let's move along, nothing more to read here that wasn't in the first three pages. Even the mindless insults are becoming tedious.
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Location: NJ | sooo
guitar LOL
who are you?
you say you are from chicago but your IP is in st augustine
obviously you are someone I banned before that just can't keep their nose out of the OFC
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Location: Flahdaw | Al, his website (if Fingerstyleguitarists.com really IS his website) is addressed on 9 W. Washington St, Chicago. But who knows? FWIW, it's not a very well done or very popular site.... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Glad I was having fun this weekend while you were fighting. It was also nice to see many old friends are still around.
Other than that, I don't see any reason to trust Guitar with a bet, much less $10,000. As for that, why not make a bet someone might be willing and able to take? Probably because you thought no one would accept a $10,000 bet with a stranger, but might take something more reasonable. Bobbo's counteroffer was to put the money in escrow. If you didn't like his counter, you could counter back.
But to your original point, without all the insults, I've had a Celebrity that sounded better than a USA made Ovation and cheaper US Ovations that sound better than more expensive Ovations. I've also played some cheap guitars that sounded better than more expensive guitars. And I've played a $15,000 guitar that wasn't impressive to me, before I knew the price. Learning it didn't change my opinion. So, I agree with some of your points, but so what? |
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| Mark in Boise
I believe 'Guitar' is out to prove people who fetish instruments, or any other material thing, delude themselves that more money spent necessitates a better outcome. He is forcing people to individually assess the real nature of value and quality of what they own or intend to own. This has important societal implications. |
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Location: Flahdaw | There he is again....speaking for Guitar. Very strange??? |
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Location: closely held secret | darkbarguitar - 2013-09-16 4:43 AM
There he is again
She, apparently. Right, Gina? |
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| Guitar/gmaslin, this has been the most entertaining thing I've read here in years.
Carry on. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Whatever....it's interesting how gmaslin's 1st post AND Guitar's coming out post (after 2 or 3 years, who really cares?) are the EXACT same date!!???
Coincidence? Hardly.
"We are in the same camp"-gmaslin
Maybe even in the same tent.....
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Location: Flahdaw | Oops, and notice how gmaslin AND Guitar both use apostrophes instead of quotation marks. They are either both the same person, or both dummies.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | gmaslin - 2013-09-16 5:40 AM
Mark in Boise
I believe 'Guitar' is out to prove people who fetish instruments, or any other material thing, delude themselves that more money spent necessitates a better outcome. He is forcing people to individually assess the real nature of value and quality of what they own or intend to own. This has important societal implications.
I understand and I agree to some extent. I could do without the insults and the "I'll bet you a million dollars" type of immature arguments. I assume he's playing devil's advocate and he successfully stirred up the pot of Ovation Fans that's been fairly still for years and I am thankful that it brought out several of the old regulars. I hope he could have accomplished the same thing without being so abrasive. Perhaps he was offended by Waskel suggesting he was a politician, or worse, a lawyer.
Back on topic, if I recall it, I had one personal experience in which a Celebrity sounded better than a comparable USA made Ovation. I bought a Celebrity Deluxe because I didn't know what I was doing with guitars or ebay. I took advantage of a similar situation by trading it and some cash for a 99 Collector, probably the most beautiful guitar I ever owned. Both mid-bowl, multihole cutaways. When I played the 99, it didn't sound as good to me as the CD, but I assumed it had dead strings. Years later, a Berklee trained guitar player tried it and several others of my Ovations and recorded identical clips. He swore the 99 sounded best on the recording, but I couldn't hear a difference. He didn't identify which guitar was recorded and I couldn't tell. They all sounded the same to me. He bought the 99 from me and later admitted that his ears may have been influenced by his eyes. Music, like any art, is very subjective. There just aren't any bright lines or absolute truths, except that rap sucks. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Some time back I decided that I would be an Ovation Geek in lieu of being a Snob. Snobs have to defend themselves, Geeks just get to enjoy...
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Location: sitting at my computer | MWoody - Snobs have to defend themselves, Geeks just get to enjoy... [like button] click, click! LOL Honestly, who the heck (other than me) should care one iota what I might or might not think I can hear or how much I choose to pay for a guitar, a plectrum (or anything else)? It's my friggin' hobby and my friggin money! Frankly, I can't tell how expensive a guitar is just by listening to it, but trying to prove or disprove whether someone else who claims they can is (imho) a ludicrous endeavor. And to get into an argument about it is even sillier. Akin to elementary school kids arguing about who can pee further. 
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Location: sitting at my computer | MWoody - Snobs have to defend themselves, Geeks just get to enjoy... [like button] click, click! LOL Honestly, who the heck (other than me) should care one iota what I might or might not think I can hear or how much I choose to pay for a guitar, a plectrum (or anything else)? It's my friggin' hobby and my friggin money! Frankly, I can't tell how expensive a guitar is just by listening to it, but trying to prove or disprove whether someone else who claims they can is (imho) a ludicrous endeavor. And to get into an argument about it is even sillier. Akin to elementary school kids arguing about who can pee further.
Done bitchin', gonna go do some pickin'. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | This thread is closed. I may re-open it or move the Ovation Guitar bits into the new thread that will inevitably start, but you all know the rules..
If one person insults another... the MODERATORS deal with it. Once you "insult them back" like you're in elementary school then YOU are just as guilty. However, I was out of town... and I'm busy the next couple of days... I have to review all this nonsense. |
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