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Location: NJ | details tomorrow
I just got done driving 8 plus hours
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Location: Paris/France | Yes !!!!
Have a good night Al... ;)
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | ohhhhhhh...... |
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Location: France | Great news and nice teasing Al.
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Location: Angoulême - France | I join my Frenchy friends to congrat you Al : we in France really love those guitars too !!! And we're waiting for pics right now !!! Bravo !!!!!! |
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Location: Australia | ....I love this place |
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Location: NJ | Well ?? ? ? . . . . . |
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Location: Midland, MI | But, stupid.
I miss Laugh-In. And the Smothers brothers. And Benny Hill. And...
How late is he going to sleep in, anyway? :D |
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Location: SoCal | Even I'm up. Where the hell is Al? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cruster:
How late is he going to sleep in, anyway? :D Just till his newly acquired slot-head says, "Gotta go, ' have an important meeting" |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by Weaser P:
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Okay, you've got my intrest as well...nice sniffing AL! :cool: |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by cruster:
I miss Laugh-In. And the Smothers brothers. And Benny Hill. And... And Flip Wilson. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Flip Wilson: Chris gonna find Ray Charles... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Guys, don't fall for this for a minute. It's a classic Al Bait & Switch Routine. "I found a slothead, but it's not for sale. HOWEVER, I'd be happy to custom order you a replica. Let me jot down your credit card number and I'll get right back to you..."
It would be really cool if Al uncovered one. Always interesting to know where they all ended up after these years of mystery. I think the list Bill posted awhile back was pretty accurate.
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| It's always nice to see photos of any newly discovered original slothead. :) |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by FlySig:
And Flip Wilson. How could I forget Flip Wilson? Or Geraldine? Or the "Church of What's Happening Now?"
Dang. Al better show up pretty soon or this thread is going to veer wildly off-topic. :eek: |
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Location: NJ | well as many of you know I made it out to Ohio for the summer show. Guitar shows in general have been on the decline since the advent of e bay. I still go to a few to press the flesh and hang out (I am a living legend in Columbus) and see my midwestern buddies even though they still insist on calling SODA, "pop". Pop was my father.
So a guy comes up to me and starts to finger the ne Ultra I brought along with me and asks if I know anything about Ovations. Me, wearing my "Ovation fan club" t shirt replies "sure a little" and gets ready for some annoying.
he started using words like pre production, pre tooling, and serial number 3 and Adamas and I was skeptical. I asked if he guitar was a slot head and he said it was. He insisted it was serial number 3 and I called him on it. I told him it could NOT be 0003 and that was that. He then explained that according to the chart he read it was the third guitar that got into production and he was not sure of the s/n because it was a mile long.
great, here is my card take some pics e mail it to me I would LOVE to see it. well he explained he only lived a mile away and he would go home and bring it to show me.
when he showed up with a brown case WITH SPARKLE ON THE OUTSIDE, my heart started to race. I threw open the latched to reveal a -2 slothead I looked in the soundhole to discover it was truely 0029.
I sat there in disbelief playing the guitar with the biggest grin you have ever seen on my face. I dragged the guitar out into the hallway took some pics and the owner told me the story.
he is a flatpicker and loves martins but was infactuated with the adamas guitars when they came outbut at 2500 he could not afford one. In 1980 he walked into a local music show saw the same guitar he lusted over but now on consignment for $650 and he rushed to the bank got the money and bought it. He has owned it ever since. At one point he loaned to a girlfriend who worn out the cowboy frets took a chunk out of the epaulet and some chunks out of the case.
I have exact details of the story written down and will let them out later. Pics will come after I find my camera and open up photoshop and resize them so I can post them. I use my digital camera on the lowest settings and it is still too small to just upload a pic UUUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!.
so to say the least I had a GREAT time in Ohio. |
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Location: SoCal | Wow. I'm assuming that you told him about the board and he'll come onboard and talk about his guitar? When he got it in 1980, was it new or used? Is he the original owner? |
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Location: France | Wow, Great story Al. Thanks for sharing.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Did you explain that all original Slotheads come with a transferrable lifetime warrantee - as long as the OFC gets to play it in CT every (date TBD)? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Looking forward to the pic's; great story Al, thanks! :eek: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My new version of finding an early Harley or Porsche Speedster in a barn. Wow. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Al..
I'm sure there are other ways but one way to re-size a picture is to e-mail it to yourself and choose the "make picture smaller" option when it pops up.
It may not be the geek way to get-er-done but it gets-er-done. |
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another original slothead FOUND!!!!!!!!!!!1
