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Location: Upper Left USA | Do you play your Ovation in a Worship setting? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I am really curious as to the number of Praise Players that are active in the OFC.
Enjoy! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have thought about joining out little church group on numerous occassions but their practice schedule just doesn't work for me so I have to be content to sit in the pews and sing-along.
An Ovation would be good for their souls.
They currently play a Taylor and a Martin. |
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Location: Los Angeles, CA | I'm actually the music minister of my church. My specialty is keyboards but I've had to learn guitar for obvious reasons (a piano is kind of heavy to take to the beach).
I'm proud to say that a good number of my members play Ovations. The Celebrity guitars count, right? |
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Location: Midland, MI | I don't play in a worship setting, but when I *stop*, people in the general vicinity have been heard to exclaim, 'Praise the Lord!' or 'Thank G-d!' Does that count?
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Location: Valparaiso, FL | That counts. Since I'm a pastor, I don't get to play often in church (some people think I'm not supposed to have fun there) but when I do, I play loud. :) |
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Location: Charlotte NC | I play bass and guitar in our praise band, serve as the backup Music Director when our MOM is out of town or wants a break, and do a guitar/vocal solo about once a month for the offetory special music. Have a listen to us:
Walk By Faith |
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Location: NJ | does playing for anton lavay count?
JUST TEASING |
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Location: Powder Springs, Ga. | Excellent LoJoe. Sounds really good. |
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Location: Los Angeles, CA | Um. . .Anton LeVay, that cute bald satanist guy, died in 1997. Al, your playing didn't have anything to do with that, right? |
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Location: Valparaiso, FL | I had heard Al's playing slays.. but.. |
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Location: Texas | I play my "O" S771 in our church's Life Teen band.
-Gary K |
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Location: NJ | anton was also the only registered theramin player in the musician's union in california.
now you are all saying "al knows just a little too much about this guy" |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Run towards the Light Al! It's waiting for you.
I thought you wore Black because of its slimming effect in a wardrobe! |
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Location: NJ | So . . . does that mean that there's a REMOTE chance that Anton is the guy who played theramin on The BeachBoys' "Good Vibrations" ?? |
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Location: NJ | Never mind.
Theramin:
Paul Tanner. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I play in Church and Convalescent Homes with my Church band "Ransomed"
"Ransomed" That\'s me on banjo... my S771 is on the stand in front
"Ransomed"... wide shot... singers, banjo, guitars, keyboard and French Horn!
.... I play my S771 and Balladeer-12... and...gulp...(getting ready to run).... Washburn 5-string banjo...
....only because there STILL isn't a 5-string banj"O".... |
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Location: Monroe, Ohio (Cincinnati) | I am leader of a Praise band for our prayer group. Since we are Catholic, we are somewhat perceived as too far outside the mainstream by many and are not asked to play music for our regularly scheduled masses.
This is a good thing, however, since we are more than busy enough providing P&W for our regularly scheduled prayer group meetings and are also asked to play quite often for conferences and retreats outside of our church. We do continue to step by step gain acceptance and look forward to the day when the rest of the parish, and the church, catches up to us.
I play straight man acoustic guitar for the more talented musicians in our group, however they do let me lead most of the singing.
We are trying to increase our number of Worship leaders, so there are 4 of us currently being developed in this role, myself and 3 ladies. |
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Location: Rockton, Il | I play my 2001 Collectors most every Sunday in our Praise Band "Steps of Faith". Played our Youth Leaders Applause about a year ago. I work at a Music Store came across the 2001 Collectors and had to have it. |
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Location: Denver, PA USA | I am the worship leader/music director at my church. I have switched to bass, but when I play acoustic, it is my 1777LX that does the job. Our other guitarist plays either a Les Paul or a Legend. No Martins, or Taylors. Just O's up front.:-)
I just thought of something. A number of years ago I played bass in a band and owned a Martin. I wouldn't have played guitar for anything. I was loving the bass. Since I switched to bass now, and I own an Ovation, I really miss playing guitar. Hmmm.
Bill
Denver, PA |
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Location: Corvallis, OR | I rarely play for a religious service, but I must admit, when I play/practice alone, it is sometimes a spiritual experience.
Does that count ? |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | Play in praise band every Sunday. Hooked on the doubleneck. It is interesting how many praise band players there are on this website. Its one of the few gigs where they have to love you.
Steve |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | You don't see many people get up and leave when the music is bad. |
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Location: NW NJ | "Its one of the few gigs where they have to love you."
Steve - technically I don't think they HAVE to, but I think that there's someone helping to grease that wheel ... ;) |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Our band is called Cornerstone but we often refer to ourselves as F.S.B. which stands for "Fine By Sunday". We average 1 new song a week and sometime it's pretty shakey at Monday night rehersals. |
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