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Location: SoCal | Tony, if you are second guessing your purchase and feel the need to pursue an original, I can help you out by taking that used #47 RI off your hands... Stephen, sorry - no regrets. Finest acoustic I have yet to play. Maybe I need to get another? |
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Location: Clinton ,Ct | Just wanted to say that I had a blast meeting everyone .A big hey to them Jersy Boys.The Factory guys are great gave me tons of info for a Guitar i'm working on.I'll be back next yr for sure.with back up. thanks to everyone who made it possible |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Tony Tony Tony ;) |
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Location: SoCal | Stephen, Stephen, Stephen... |
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Location: NJ | forgot to mention.
As I was sitting with Matt on Friday night in the hotel lobby. I looked out at everyone playing and singing and having a good time and said "Matt, you can't buy this for a million dollars"
that sort of summed up my feelings about the event. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Al, I know what you're trying to say ...
But your math is a little bit off. Trust me, for a million dollars I could hire 25 drunks to sit around the lobby playing guitars and looking like they were having a good time.
That said, I would not have missed it for the world.
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Location: Scotland | Well, I got back safely, if not uneventfully yesterday mid-morning and spent the day crashed out getting over the jet-lag.
As an event this thing just gets better every year, to the extent that a lot of the old-timers don't even bother with the factory tour and just hang. There were so many highlights this year I wouldn't know where to start, but just a few personal highlights include; The lobby jam on Thursday (not to mention the late night "theological" discussion that followed) Jamming with Matt on Friday. Assisting Kim & Cliff with their breast implants. Playing slide with Johnny and Moody. Getting to play the 47RI. The gathering at casa Stonge and generally just getting to hang around with a bunch of really cool people while doing nothing but playing guitar and talking crap.
We got to see the interviews a few of us did last year that were intended for the "Unique Voices" DVD. The response to the question "Why did you come to the OFC tour?" was invariably "because of the people" That pretty much sums it up.
So thanks to Al, Rick, Kim, Frank, Darren, Matt and everyone at Ovation for making it happen. See you all next year. |
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Location: NJ | While on the subject of the Matt/PaulJam, here's how it went:
It was LateFriNite/EarlySatMorn in a corner of what the hotel refers to as the "Lodge".
At a 3'x3' table, Matt&Paul are seated at two sides perpendicular to each other, Witko&I are at the other two sides. Paul's playing my SlotHead and Matt is playing what is probably THE best sounding Ovation 12-string I have EVER heard (SleepyEyes' black, deep-bowl AdamasI - non-cutaway/airlocks in treble bout).
These two guys played for a good 8-10 mins. together, completely spontaneous, and it was ABSOLUTELY Brilliant!!
I mentioned to Witko that it didn't even SOUND like two "live" guitars . . . it sounded like two instruments recorded in seperate channels with a bunch of the usual studio "tricks" to try to achieve that "natural" sound, and played on a really good pair of studio monitors. (whew!)
Sitting directly across from both of those guitars in such close proximity while played by these guys was absolutely amazing!
My only regret was that I didn't have a laptop and one of those little Sony stereo mic to save it . . .
WellDone,Gentlemen!
thx. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Waskel,
Did you get that on tape? |
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Location: NJ | That's the beauty of it.
It was extremely quiet, and there weren't many people left there at all, as most had toddled-off t'bed.
Johnny(Strumming12) was there for a while, and SleepyEyes was about somewhere in the room with his friend . . .
(I may be wrong, but I think that was about it). |
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Location: Tennessee | Bobbo was off on the other side of the lodge with his eyes closed drinking it all in ... it sounded just as good from 40 feet away. It made me realize how great incredible guitars can sound in the hands of masters. |
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| You're all lucky - I was looking everywhere to find a guitar to sit in with them but there were so few people left I couldn't find one. Man I could have totally ruined that.
The tour was just the best time I have had for so many years. Such great people, great guitars and at Stonge's even al laughed. I was crying with laughter at the time or I would have taken a picture. |
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Location: Orange County, California | I'm really glad Schroder made it. Thanks for putting up with him Jeff!! :D :p |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | That's what I get for going to bed early. Sorry I missd it. |
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Location: SoCal | Schroder was great to have there. You could insult him all you wanted (like the rest of us, he's a prime target) and he couldn't fire back. Next year, I suspect will be different. I have no doubt that next year it's gonna be "Fire in the hole!" and duck. I'm greatly looking forward to it.
Every year I meet new people with whom I've had a great time posting, and discover, to no one's surprise, that they are great people in person as well. Weas, JeffW, Schro', Sleepy, and everybody else who just fits in with this group so well. |
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| I looked like a midget standing next to the hulk p.i.
and fred - my kids think you just look sooooooo coooooool compared to all the old men there. You have fans. No matter what I tell 'em. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by schroeder:
You're all lucky - I was looking everywhere to find a guitar to sit in with them but there were so few people left I couldn't find one. Man I could have totally ruined that.
The tour was just the best time I have had for so many years. Such great people, great guitars and at Stonge's even al laughed. I was crying with laughter at the time or I would have taken a picture. believe it or not I am a really funny guy. some people said I should have been writing for mad or national lampoon or monty python... |
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Location: NJ | Sorry, Al . . . but you don't have the legs for Python . . . |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by cliff:
Sorry, Al . . . but you don't have the legs for Python . . . shut up and watch the penquin on the telly |
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Location: NJ | but I don't WANT t'watch the penguin, and I DON'T like SPAM!!! |
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Location: closely held secret | BURMA!!! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | and now... 'Saga of Njorl' .... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | NEE!! NEE!! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | . . . . Cut to a courtroom. Severe atmosphere . . . .
Judge- Michael Norman Randall, you have been found guilty of the murder of Arthur Reginald Webster, Charles Patrick Trumpington, Marcel Agnes Bernstein, Lewis Anona Rudd, John Malcolm Kerr, Nigel Sinclair Robinson, Norman Arthur Potter, Felicity Jayne Stone, Jean-Paul Reynard, Rachel Shirley Donaldson, Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Karl-Heinz Mullet, Belinda Anne Ventham, Juan-Carlos Fernandez, Thor Olaf Stensgaard, Lord Kimberley of Pretoria, Lady Kimberley of Pretoria, The Right Honourable Nigel Warmsly Kimberley, Robert Henry Noonan and Felix James Bennett, on or about the morning of the 19th December 1972. Have you anything to say before I pass sentence?
Randall- Yes, sir. I'm very sorry.
Judge- Very sorry?
Randall- Yes, sir. It was a very very bad thing to have done and I'm really very ashamed of myself. I can only say it won't happen again. To have murdered so many people in such a short space of time is really awful, and I really am very, very, very sorry that I did it, and also that I've taken up so much of the court's valuable time listening to the sordid details of these senseless killings of mine. I would particularly like to say, a very personal and sincere 'sorry' to you, m'lud, for my appalling behaviour throughout this trial. I'd also like to say sorry to the police, for putting them to so much trouble (shot of three heavily bandaged exhausted-looking policemen behind him) for the literally hours of work they've had to put in, collecting evidence and identifying corpses and so forth. You know I think sometimes we ought to realize the difficult and often dangerous work involved in tracking down violent criminals like myself and I'd just like them to know that their fine work is at least appreciated by me.
(The policemen look embarrassed.)
First Policeman- No, no, we were only doing our job. |
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