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Location: NJ | ". . . Cliff, could you post that wonderful Taylor ad you sent me some time ago? Would be fitting here . . ."
Bill;
I've tried to post it, but with the advent of the "new" gallery feature (I liked the old one much better), I couldn't make it happen.
I've got it in my gallery if anyone may be interested and wants to see it. |
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Location: Scotland | I hadn't seen that, hilarious, You're fuckin' nuts. Not quite as good as your last photoshop escapade, but then it would be hard to better that one. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Cliff, i cant figure how to get a pic on a post either with this new picture upload feature in the gallery.I have tried but cannot get it right.Miles, any help? can you walk us thru it...BTW, i ahve posted several new pics in my gallery if anyone wants to take a look... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Cliff. Nice Taylor photo. I would only want to be in the BACK row. I agree with you, the old photo gallery feature was much better (sorry Miles). As a result I really don't use the gallery much any more. By the way, I did just buy a Taylor (Big Baby). $360 at GC with nice gig bag, solid top, lifetime warranty, etc. I would have preferred an Ovation, but unfortunately Ovation had nothing that could compete with it in that price range. Very nice instrument for the money. Dave |
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Location: Indiana | Ya mean like this?...Just copy the url from the pic properties. Nice ad :)
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Location: Scotland | How about a caption competition? Here's one for starters.... "The hunt for Bob Taylor's lost flatpick continues, San Fransisco's Gay commumity send in reinforcements" |
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Location: Indiana | "Taylor joins the Roundback Revolution!" :D
(after a little more thought)...
"Taylor's attempt to join the roundback revolution falls on it's face as hundreds of models are returned for cracks in the lower bout" |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Mark1960 Where were you when we needed the real copy written for all the real Ovation ads????
Cracks in the lower bout......gotta love that. Now what does it mean when the guys head is up? is he coming up for air? and you gotta love Bubba over5 and up two from Mr tattoo, he ain't coming up for nuttin! |
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Location: Indiana | Mark1960 Where were you when we needed the real copy written for all the real Ovation ads????
Well, if it was back in the 70's I was probably in my room with my bong and my cat listening to Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" album or CSN&Y. I've been a little bit of everywhere since then.
I'm glad you liked it. The guys at work were wondering what I was laughing so hard about. We are always on a co-worker about his ass hanging out when he is bent over working on a machine (he is a BIG guy). I thought of him as soon as I saw this.
It was just a moment of inspiration ;) . I think whatever Cliff has is spreading. It's kinda scary :eek:
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | "Gathering of Taylor pickers is disasterously ruined by an incantation by a cheap magician gone wrong. Not one of the players was turned into a new Chet Atkins. The gathering in the heart of cattle country resulted in most of the participants getting sheared and sent home naked by a band of passing cowboys. Gathering was declared a success as they were used to being sheared by Taylor and generally preferred the cowboys."
News flash from central Texas |
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Location: Parkersburg, WV | Perhaps Taylor's version of "Where's Waldo"?
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I thought it was a news photo of a new cult that worshipped soulless-sounding guitars. Looks like a communal mass marriage---be careful who you're next to!!!! :eek:
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Celebrity CC01 Spruce Top 6-String |
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Location: Columbus, GA | well, that's kinda harsh...i've owned several ovations and several taylors...and i think my taylors could take my ovations...well, except for the 614ce vs. the adamas smt...i don't like bright guitars. however, just because a guitar doesn't please your ear doesn't mean that i won't please someone else's. that's the beauty of music and instruments. tone is all in someone's ear. |
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Location: Indiana | topher...
I don't think Roger or any of us meant it to be harsh. It's just having fun. Cliff is a nut with a twisted sense of humor. I was afraid a Taylor fan might take this wrong. I would say overall though that more negative, unfounded BS has been stated about Ovations than any other brand of guitar. A few here will throw a counterpunch now and then but I think we all appreciate a nice sounding guitar...no matter who makes it.
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Mark1960:
topher...
I think we all appreciate a nice sounding guitar...no matter who makes it.
Mark
and when Taylor eventually manage to make one, we'll appreciate it. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Blame it on bad eyesight
I swear my first impression of that photo was that it was a herd of sheep, I see now that it is a herd of sheared sheep returned to human form. It was fuzzy when I looked at it last night and I was certain it was a herd of sheep, that's why I thought an incantation had gone wrong.
Maybe they had been turned into sheep and the incantation wore off after they were sheared.
I was going to follow up my impression that they were sheep caused by a failed incantation, by a denial by the magician that the incantation had went wrong. The magician saying that he asked the salesman that had arranged the gathering to concentrate on the the company's impression of all the fine pickers while he cast the spell, instead of a bunch of Chet Atkins, the impression that emerged from the salesman's opinion was a flock of wool covered pickers waiting to be fleeced.
I'll get my eyes checked tommorrow, and I'll be OK, those pickers will be fleeced the rest of their lives. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | topher, if you like the sound of Taylors, more power to you, sound is a personal choice. I just have never heard a Taylor I cared for. For some reason, I understand the attraction to Martins and Gibsons, they make many nice-sounding (to me)guitars. But Taylors have always left me COLD.
The salesman that sold me my Adamas 12-string may have given me a clue....he loved Taylors and he played fingerstyle....we conjectured that maybe Taylor's sound is suited more to fingerstyle players(he was fairly clueless as to why on earth I would want an Ovation).
Thanks to Mark for a good explanation....I definitely appreciate a nice sounding guitar, and if I ever hear a Taylor that I think does sound nice, I'll be the first to admit it.....
Another note....Cliff, where did this photo of all the naked people originate???? Just curious. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Bailey, Funny you would mention that, I thought it was a herd of sheep too at first. Sheep are famous for following anything. Then I saw Bubba in the back row........ |
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Location: NJ | there is a photographer that goes around the world photographing nudes in public places. This looks like one of his photos. I saw a movie about him on the sundance channel. His record for total number was at a "phish" show a couple of years ago but he surpassed that in either australia or new zealand. |
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Location: Indiana | Now for what I really think....
I think you were supposed to see sheep. I think the photographer was saying that humans had become sheep.....just waiting for slaughter... Sheered of our mind and our soul....afraid to raise our heads (ie THINK)...led anywhere, as long as we are fed.
...just my interpretation (2 cents)
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Location: SoCal | You're possibly right on the intrupretation. If it's true, then the artist doesn't have a very high opinion of people. I, for one, majored in insubordination in college (with a minor in beer consumption), and most of my friends, very stubbornly, head off in their own direction. I don't know anybody who I would say was like a "sheep" (altho' it reminds me of a true story I heard in Texas years ago -- but that's a story for another time). |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | moodypi
These are Taylor people, you have never hung around sheeople like them. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I must admit I thought they were sheep the first few times because I had seen the ad before and didn't look that close. |
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Location: SoCal | If they are sheep, may we assume that they have all been fleeced by Taylor? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yeah...I thought they were sheep too. If your eye starts at the top of the page it looks like sheep. Then when I got to the bottom, (so to speak), I could see I had been tricked.
There was a article in our paper about an "artist" who gathers hundreds of nudes in a public place for a picture. In the article, he had hundreds of naked women in a train station. It's got to be the same guy. What some won't do to make a buck.
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