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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | For me it was Cat Stevens in the earily 70's. What Player most Influenced you to get your first Ovation? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Glen Campbell.  |
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Location: GA USA | Samova.
I saw pix of his guitars online and emailed him. |
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Location: NJ | Ms. Ginger Ackerman. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Met some hitchhiking Hippie with one in the Library Park, Falmouth, MA, 1972 or so. |
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Location: big island | Roland Cazimero |
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Location: Paris/France | Marcel Dadi like most of French...
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Location: Tennessee | Dave Mason |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Hard to pick just one, but probably Dave Mason, too. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Kev Cooper (a local surfing identity) used to sit in the back of his Kombi van in the beach carpark and murder The Beatles.
I didn't know anything about Ovations back then but it was a sweet sounding instrument despite his playing. I'm guessing it was some kind of balladeer. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Everyone had an Ovation back then. Maybe Jim Croce or Cat Stephens. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Brad Delp.
Hey, I was a kid...
GC, Croce and, yeah I'll admit it, Mac Davis didn't hurt the brand for me either. |
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| Joey Eppard. Since I got a deal on it from one of you guys, I ended up with the same guitar as one of his, too.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That looks good. |
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Location: North Carolina | No one. When the first Ovations came out, I thought it was a dumb gimmick and I ignored them for years. It wasn't until I needed to plug in an acoustic to play with a band in the late seventies that I bought a Balladeer. First song I needed it for - Amie. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Janie McKnight, don't bother looking her up she was a friend's girlfriend. It was around 1976 and she played it plugged into a Pig's Nose Amp.
Fell in love with the sound the first time I heard it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The usual suspects.
Glen Campbell
Jim Croce & Maury Muehleisen
America
But I can't help asking what happened to Janie...? |
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Location: Texas | Jim Croce way back when...
and oh...so many others... |
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Location: SoCal | Ok Serge, in September I wanna hear you play and sing Operator..... |
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Location: Texas | Bones,
I know ALL of Jim's songs from All his albums...
and I mean the words and also learned all Jim's rhythm parts and Maury's leads...
yep, really...a long time ago |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That's been one of my goals for years, but a 25 year layoff put me behind schedule. I've been struggling with Operator, but I do a good Photographs, Time In a Bottle, New York's, Hard Way, Dreamin' Again, and I'll Have to Say I Love You. I guess I've made pretty good progress now that I list them. |
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Location: Texas | good job Mark, keep going....
you gotta learn all the easy ones like; you don't mess around with jim, bad bad leroy brown, rapid roy, speedball tucker, working at the car wash blues, singing the blues, roller derby queen, etc..
jim was the greatest songwiter....for sure my favorite,
I love all his stuff... |
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Location: big island | yeah, croce is one of my heroes too. Jesus, croce and tupperware. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Bee Gees |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by First Alternate:
No one. When the first Ovations came out, I thought it was a dumb gimmick and I ignored them for years. It wasn't until I needed to plug in an acoustic to play with a band in the late seventies that I bought a Balladeer. First song I needed it for - Amie. I like this response cause the first part matches mine... than we take completely opposite directions... but we both are here.
No One besides me influenced my choice. I have mentioned this before, I heard about Ovations (grew up in CT) and I thought Ovation was the end to wood guitars. Why would anyone want a guitar made out of so much wood? Even back then I knew "corners" (the inside of the box) was not a good thing for sound. After a little further thought and realizing that many ancient stringed instruments were roundbacks... it made perfect sence that Ovation was about to "correct" the industry from continuing to use the flawed "wood box" design. I wanted to be on the cutting edge, so not only did I get an Ovation, but I got one with an Aluminum neck that couldn't ever warp, and didn't need adjusting. |
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What Player most Influenced you to get your first Ovation?
