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Location: Houston, TX | How about it? Meet in Conn, tour the factory, have some guest speakers, and many, many jam sessions. Could be done over a long weekend, Fri-Sun. |
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Location: SoCal | Sounds good. Who's gonna finance my trip from California? |
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Location: NJ | Gizz all you need to do is call the key and I think all 400+ will be ready |
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Location: NJ | Maybe we could get some Corporate Sponsorship from Ovation?
Now THAT would be a great marketing piece!
A full page ad comprised of a photo of the front of the plant with several hundred OFC members standing in front of it, and list some demographics: regional breakdown, total number of guitars owned, average number of years an Ovation owner, etc. On the facing page, another full page ad for the Q.
....hey!.....I'm just the "concept man"..... |
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Location: NJ | cliff I believe the industry term is marketing puke |
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Location: NJ | I am not!!! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Have any of you considered the impact of 400 plus weird guitar players arriving might have on the foreign guest illegal alien airport security and police force that operate in that part of the country. Have you thought about the airport guard confronting you with your American made guitar at the airport, "Meester, thees is not an approved eenstrument, don't you know about NAFTA, pleese step into the search area you have violated NAFTA, MY fren, you fool, you ask for my badge numbre, WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING BADGES, plees politely drop yoor pants, and weel see if this eenstrument is designed for American orifices. You are a threat to American security, prepare to learn what hoppens to a fool who tries to get on a plane and eesn't a hijacker or suicide bomber. You do not have a note from Osama, Rafeal, haul these perps of to the dungeon, and give them two hours of, hee hee hee, electroshock (I read where our INS let a Cuban in who , it turns out, took great pleasure in administering electroshock to dissidents in Cuba under Castro), then deliver them to Congress for questioning. Back to work, the Methodists Girls Choir just arrived. They thought they were going to Philadelphia.
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Location: Baton Rouge, LA | Hey, I'm a consultant with meetings experience and expertise.
My going rate: $200 per hour and, in the case of the OFC Convention as proposed, a vintage Glen Campbell shiny-bowl balladeer and a vintage Ovation shiny-bowl classic guitar.
Quite reasonable, I should say.
Y'all know how to get a hold of me!
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | "... he said, you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do-
-so I took off my hat and said imagine that, huh, me working for you oh whoa ooh whoa oh.."
Any volunteers to chaperone this field trip?? :eek:
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Location: NJ | I am only allowed within the new hartford city limits during daylight hours....but Winsted is a different story.... |
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| OFC tour of the Ovation plant? WHERE DO I SIGN UP!!! My Elite and I will be there. Now if I can just get past the Jack and Jill went up the hill
song I just might learn to play this thing some day! :D
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Maybe coordinate and have a good 'ol CD Release party for the Fan Club CD. We are hoping to have that completed by November and that's really only 3 months away.
Yes we will be contacting the folks who signed up with details shortly. |
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Location: Pennsylvania | Well, it's worth a try. How about everyone who's really interested, sign this, then we could e-mail Ovation telling them the number of fans that would like to gather, and our hopes for a convention. Why not see what happens? |
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Location: NJ | aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
who's gonna finance my trip?????? cut me a break guys. Now you want Ovation to set up a welfare program too??????? I guess once you buy a guitar you can expect the company to pay your rent and feed your face. With that attitude I bet you never go anywhere or even have any fun. For a real stretch if you are actually a musician you can write the trip off as a business expense.
If an event were to take place I bet it would be a great time. I for one would not care about what it cost me to get there or to meet others that share a common interest.
May I suggest if travel is a real concern Moody and Gizz can organize a west coast gathering. I am sure you can find a burro that could make the trip to some central location.
gizz just cup your hand to your ear and listen for those 400 guitars playing La bamba. |
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Location: SoCal | Yeah Al, and your point is???
I for one wouldn't care about the cost. My wife and kids on the other hand wouldn't be thrilled about me spending the money. Just a minor detail. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by moodypi:
[QB]Yeah Al, and your point is???
it is a simple one. Don't go don't belly ache. |
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Location: SoCal | I'm not going. And I'm not bellyaching (well, maybe just feeling poor). |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Damn, this New Mexico stagecoach schedule is hard to read, the thing looks like it was printed 150 years ago. Let's see, 1 day to El Paso (stay overnight, visit beautiful Juarez, Mejico boys town), stage to San Antonio, 10 days (not Gauranteed during Comanche moon), San Antonio to Galveston, 7 days, (featuring musical interpretations by G. Campbell on board when available), cattle ship to New York harbor, 30 days, (departure depending on Texas roundup schedule). Note: for entertainment while you wait, visit the English Pub in town when the cowboys arrive from the cattle drive and are served warm beer, you will see the bartender perform a "six gun" jig that you won't forget, you might, if he is a repeat offender, see the lariats come out, and unless he steals a fast horse, and leaves town, he will hang from a newfangled lamp post. (he will hang if he steals a horse, he deserves it for serving warm beer to cowboys off the range.)
Any how, I think I can make it in 60 days if I don't get put in a Mexican jail, get scalped by Comanches on the staked plain, hung by cowboys for laughing at the wrong time, or forced to walk the plank on a cattle ship for mistaking the Captain's Mexican wife and daughter as Juarez girls like I met in boys town.
But I still prefer this to flying.
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Location: NJ | Hey moody
if I remember mannix got $300 a day plus expenses in the seventies. in 2002 you probably get double that so hell work one extra weekend and feel "po" no "mo" |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | New Hartford...(NorthWest CT) crowded?? I guess the squirrel and bear population has grown since I left in the 80's. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well, I don't know what it is like today. Hartford is and always was a pretty busy city, but as I recall, the Factory is not near there. It's up northwest in New Hartford. I recall New Hartford or Barkhamstead to definatly be the sitcks.. Bloomfield was a small city also. Guess I should look at a map. I have no use for the entire state other than the guitars made there, but that's a personal thing. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Do you still have to take a Parkway to get there? If so, what is the toll for the burro that us western staters are supposed to arrive on. Actually, it will be three burros as we're bringing our instruments and our booze, maybe four as Gizz may need a stack of amps to get his gentle acoustic sound on La Boombox. In reality, it will probably be 50 burros cause none of us will share a burro. We'll have enough time on the trip to teach the burros the vocals and a few dance steps for La Bamba, so all Gizz will have to do is accompany the 50 burro orchestra. That should impress those Ovation factory workers and make them proud of what they have spawned.
This thing is taking off, I'll go out tomorrow and start rounding up the burros, they been bored since we shut down the silver mines in 1893 and ended prospecting.
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Location: NJ | Mule teams are another good cheap source of alternative transportation for our western members. |
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Location: NJ | Years ago, my (then) wife and my daughter had the the top repaired on my CB by Ovation as a birthday present and made two trips to the factory (one to drop it off, and one to pick it up). On one of the trips they were given a tour and they had a great time and were greatly impressed. My daughter still talks about it.
I would LOVE to make a trip up there someday. |
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Location: SoCal | On a serious note, my wife and I have talked about taking the kids to New England in the next couple of years, to see it in the fall. My wife knows that as long as I'm gonna be that close, there are two stops I have to make. One in New Hartford and one in Cooperstown.
So I'll get there eventually.
By the way Al, Rockford charged $200 per day plus expenses. I don't think that Mannix ever said what he charged (I suspect that he was busy getting beaten up for free most of the time!). |
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