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Location: south east Michigan | I know there are many members out there who have good reasons for missing the tour. Maybe it's financial, or maybe you live in some place crazy like say... Tazmania. But this is for all you fence sitters out there.
So...here are some reasons to "be there".
1) The tour takes place a couple weeks after they unvail the VXT guitar. Whatever it turns out to be, I'm sure there will some there to get our hands on. You may not see this guitar in your local store for months.
2) I've been on a few "Factory Tours". They run you through like cattle. You gotta stay between the yellow lines. Ya can't ask any detailed questions. You know what I mean. What Ovation does for us that day goes way beyond the defination of "factory tour". Who else do you think would let you hang around their engineering and design room? Within arm's reach you have some of the most historical Ovations ever made as well as a taste of what is to come. The design staff will answer any question you might have. And they'll even use small words if you ask real nice.
And the walk through the factory is more of a concentrated class in luthiery than a mere "tour".
Then there is the catered jam session they host. More on that later.
3) The hotel lobby is a happening place almost any time of the day. You can enjoy your complimentary strawberry waffle w/whipped cream breakfast to the distictive sounds of various roundbacks.
During the evening, it's a veritable orgy of music and OFC fellowship. Well... maybe "orgy" is not the right word to use, but you know what I mean.
4) You will never have a better opportunity to try out every vintage and model Ovation ever made. Just ask. Someone there will have the guitar you want to test drive.
5) You know how much fun we have with just the typewritten word. In person, it's 5 times the fun. After you meet someone face to face their posts on the board will always take on the characteristics that you can't pick up with a computer screen. Some members are just what you expect them to be and a few others are quite a surprise.
That's enough for a start. If any other tour veterans want to chime in, feel free.
Oh ... I forgot to describe the catered Jam. I'll let someone else do it. |
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Location: big island | do they cater peanut butter too? gotta have pb with my jam. it's cool that they cater it! |
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Location: NJ | ". . You may not see this guitar in your local store for months . ."
If EVER!!!
How many of you guys have never seen/played a chambered-bodied Viper?? . . . or an ADAMAS for that matter???
It appears that there will be a lot of people who have been "on the fence" for years, that are coming.
THAT in turn, is causing a lot of Repeat Offenders (who were "on the fence" about coming AGAIN, this time) t'do what's gotta' be done to make it to meet/greet the Noobs . . .
You SHOULD Be There!!! |
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Location: ranson,wva | i got the adamas part covered,noodled with a ea viper at al's.......even got 2 play 2 #47's and a original slothead in the past year...jason |
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Location: big island | i really wanna be there. think i'll plan on 2008 as i can't fathom it happening this year. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I'll be raffling off a 1581-2. |
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Location: closely held secret | Brad is right on in all cases. Well, except number three. Yes the waffles are great. No, Randy, they don't really cater, you have to make your own waffle. They provide the batter and the iron. Anyway, it's the last part of number three. The 'O' word. Ok, the other 'O' word. Just do yourself a favor and get some white out and take that right off the screen.
Number four, that's a cool one. The first time I went I didn't even take a guitar, and got to play Ovations I didn't even know existed. (Oh, whoever owned that 1688, the one with the ding... well, the one that had the ding after '05, well... you know. Sorry.)
Oh, and number five? Well... you know how sometimes you really look forward to something, like going somewhere or meeting someone, and it turns out to be nothing like what you expected? Like, maybe you were expecting "cool", and it turned out to be "if I can't get away from this moron in 30 seconds I swear I'm going to throw myself in the fireplace"? Or, "This person seems so intelligent when he types, yet when he talks I can't understand a word he says!".
Yeah. Cool fun! As Cliff said, You SHOULD Be There!!!
So be there. Or... you won't. |
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Location: ranson,wva | ill warn ya now wabbit...i fall into the latter catagory...lol but ill probly sit in a dark cornor with my fith of johnny walker red and play the same 5-6 chords over and over again on my adamas..lol jason |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | You may not see this guitar in your local store for months.
..!!!buahhahahahahahahahah! Good One Brad! Like it will EVER appear in the local GC! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | What are you talking about, Wabbit? No one on this board sounds intelligent when he types. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
No one on this board sounds intelligent when he types. Yeah....were all gonna be attorney's when we grow up :rolleyes: ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Heaven forbid. Everyone will be throwing themselves and others into the fireplace. |
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Location: Vermont USA | stephent28 posted
"Yeah....were all gonna be attorney's when we grow up"
NO!
Pauly |
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Location: south east Michigan | No one on this board sounds intelligent when he types.
I just checked.
I sound like this....
ticka tacka ticka, tacka tick / ticka tick
ticka tacka ticka, tacka tick / ticka tick
You mugs who dwell in New England or its suburb, New Jersey, got no excuse at all. |
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Location: closely held secret | Brad, I actually was going to type that exact same answer, but I thought, "no, that would be something Brad would do".
Thanks for fulfilling my expectations! :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | but I thought, "no, that would be something Brad would do".
See folks...
That's just one example of what happens when OFC member meet face to face.
They start to think the same thoughts.
So... who wants to meet JeffW now??? :eek: :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | He was very quiet and subdued. Nothing like a 12 hour drive to kick the fight out of ya!
Weaser wasn't nearly as obnoxious in real life. But Waskel...
Another gaurantee of quality is that the only OFC'ers that will show are those industrious enough to at least scrounge gas money! The real slackers stay home. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by MWoody:
Weaser wasn't nearly as obnoxious in real life. Well now, Woody, that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about me. Thanks, man. ;) |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by MWoody:
Weaser wasn't nearly as obnoxious in real life. But Waskel... I try to keep a low profile in my virtual life. It makes meeting me in person that much more exciting. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I've been playing O's since 1968 and have never been on the tour. I AM GOING THIS YEAR (BARRING ANY MAJOR CATASTROPHES) AND CAN'T WAIT!!!
The fact that I'm crippled and psychotic shouldn't scare any of you off, though.
<...while dreams of re-calloused fingers danced through my head> |
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Location: south east Michigan | Goob... just be careful if Dave asks you for your chest measurments. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I'd love to come but don't know if I'm allowed over your side of the border after that last incident...
(Your homeland security people have absolutely NO sense of humour. They'd never survive in this country.) |
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Location: Michigan | Will Britney be there with her newly shaved (O)?
GWB |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I never figured Waskel for a biker until he showed up one day. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Brad - you had me at hello! |
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This Years OFC Tour... The Inducement Thread
