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| Okay, today I go to the ear doctor, probably to have my ear drained.
This morning, I also discover that the coffee pot has a slow leak in the reserve well. So I am off to Ebay to look at coffee pots and make the detour into looking at a Tornado.
The Patriot hasn't even come to my home yet, and I'm looking at another guitar. I'm sick, sick, sick!
This is the danger of going to an OFC gathering and playing someone else's guitar.
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Location: Cincinnati | "The Patriot hasn't even come to my home yet, and I'm looking at another guitar. I'm sick, sick, sick!"
Sounds to me like you are felling great. |
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| Originally posted by kotadawg:
"The Patriot hasn't even come to my home yet, and I'm looking at another guitar. I'm sick, sick, sick!"
Sounds to me like you are felling great. :D
Jack, I guess I'm sick as in "I don't have much money in the bank and I'm looking for a Tornado".
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Location: New Hampsha | Shameless plug - If you want a Tornado check out the Condor I have listed in the for sale section. It has no synth and all new electrics - it's basically a Tornado in a red dress. |
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| Mitz, that is a beauty! Unfortunately I don't have the money right now.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | We better wait a bit more on the Patriot, Michelle. The Country Artist developed a finish crack down the face when I shipped it to Milwaukee last week. If I didn't have anyone to take care of me, I'd buy that Patriot in Seattle to replace the one going to you. Good luck with your ear. |
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| Thanks, Mark. I deal with the ear thing every once in a while. I don't know why, but the tubes in the ear aren't draining properly.
Anyway, I figure on about April before the weather finally gets good to have a guitar shipped here.
I got to get working on those "pre-loaded" Jim Croce and Cat Steven's tunes. :D
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Location: Right now? | Michelle! Take care of those ears, girl. I'm afraid I can't offer much support as far as telling you NOT to buy a guitar, haha. I've got the 'disease' myself!
Feel better, honey!
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| Thanks, Willa! There is usually a slight twinge of pain when the doctor drains the ear, but it's nothing compared to not being able to hear properly!
Unamplified, my guitar is loud enough. But I was actually having trouble hearing myself over the guitar and trying to figure out whether or not I was on key!
It's a wonderful disease we've got though -- buying and admiring guitars!
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Location: Cincinnati | Disease sounds negative. Call it a passion. |
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| Originally posted by kotadawg:
Disease sounds negative. Call it a passion. You're right. Passion is a better word. I'm so in love with Ovations, I just can't stop at owning just one!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Syndrome, as in GAS, works. Michelle, I've been thinking about sending a recording of Croce covers with the Patriot, but I have enough trouble learning how to play guitar without learning how to record stuff. I don't like this digital recording stuff. The analog was easy for me to understand. Nice and linear. When I rewind a tape, I can watch people move backwards. I get it. When I rewind a digital recording, I get blocks, bits and pixels. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I began losing my hearing a long time ago. Unfortunately, I didn't start taking care of it until it was too late, when some of it had already disappeared. Take care of it, becuase it will never come back once you lose it. On the plus side, however, all my amps have volume controls. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | SWMBO had lots of ear infections when she was a kid and had to have them drained a lot. About 25 years ago, her hearing started getting much worse and a couple years ago she let a doctor convince her that surgery would help. Two surgeries later, it's much worse. She can still hear me if I even think about buying another guitar, though.
CT scans found a brain tumor. Inoperable, so last summer was radiation therapy. Don't know for sure if that did any good, yet and they never figured out if the tumor was growing. I just prefer to stay away from doctors and be ignorant of most of my physical ailments. |
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| Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
On the plus side, however, all my amps have volume controls. :D
Professor BB, do you crank it up to 11? Love the sig line, BTW.
Actually, I've lost some of my hearing a while ago. I actually got ringing of the ears in 1986 when I went to a Monkees concert.
Now when I go to concerts, I actually use musician's ear plugs. They cost me about $120, but they've been worth every penny.
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| Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
SWMBO had lots of ear infections when she was a kid and had to have them drained a lot. About 25 years ago, her hearing started getting much worse and a couple years ago she let a doctor convince her that surgery would help. Two surgeries later, it's much worse. She can still hear me if I even think about buying another guitar, though.
CT scans found a brain tumor. Inoperable, so last summer was radiation therapy. Don't know for sure if that did any good, yet and they never figured out if the tumor was growing. I just prefer to stay away from doctors and be ignorant of most of my physical ailments. Wow, the brain tumor thing is scary.
As a kid, I didn't have to have the ears drained at all, from what I remember. It's only been within the last few months that I've had to have them drained. I'm gonna ask the doc if they think that my allergy meds aren't working.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Having to wear earplugs at a concert just seems wrong to me. We saw Jake Shimabukaro Sunday. He was plenty loud enough for everyone to hear and uderstand everything he said, but not so loud that it was unpleasant. Everyone should have his sound guy. |
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Location: Utah | BB King was like that, loud enough but not unpleasant or dangerous. |
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| Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Having to wear earplugs at a concert just seems wrong to me. We saw Jake Shimabukaro Sunday. He was plenty loud enough for everyone to hear and uderstand everything he said, but not so loud that it was unpleasant. Everyone should have his sound guy. Mark, it was like that when I went to see John Sebastian (a nice guy who is having a birthday tomorrow) and David Grisman. Absolutely perfect sound level. Actually, I ended up taking out my earplugs during the middle of the first song and didn't have to put them back in for the rest of the night.
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Location: NJ | That's why they SET those wheelchair-accessible spaces that far back from th'stage . . so that it's not "too loud" . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | What? (Can't see very well either.) |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
You're right. Passion is a better word. I'm so in love with Ovations, I just can't stop at owning just one! Doomed....  |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
What? (Can't see very well either.) Must have wax in your eyes |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I do have custom ear plugs that I wear when I'm riding, but the concerts I go to these days don't require ear plugs, and we really don't play nor rehearse at levels that require hearing protection. I don't refer to my ears as ringing, which they constantly do, but rather, I have a built-in white noise filter. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | What's the name for the auditory disease where you can't hear your wife?
I've got that one. |
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I'm a sick girl
