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Location: big island | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Even a demonic Jim is the second nicest guy you'll ever meet. an' dat's da twoof! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I see the humour detector probe worked.
You can have your own identity back now Jim, satan & I release you from service... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | "...you...need to get a LIFE!"
When I figure out what that looks like (at least for me), I will let you know. ;)
In the meantime, I look forward to 4/1/08. :D
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | …..I….I…..I seem to have been out for a while..mentally out for a while, if you know what I mean….things are all hazy and confused at the moment, but I will try to tell you what I remember…
I was in my office last night and posting a reply to lanaki’s Uke post when I started to feel real strange…as if someone else was trying to come out in me….I was hearing voices….old voices…strange voices. They were..well..voices of guitar players I think, they were..not alive…but, not yet dead though…kind of hanging around in between guitar heaven and guitar hell, so to speak.
They were saying things like “why do you play OVATION guitars and ADAMAS guitars?” and “what is the OFC and why do you spend so much time there” And I argued with them that I have always been a little different, you know, never really fell into step with what some seem to think is the ”click”..or “fad”…or “PC”. ….that I play what I feel is right for me, right sound, right tone, right touch…I never have cared what the general public thinks and that the OFC has become a safe harbor for me, where the open exchange of ideas and experience and humor are welcome, dare I say…even sometimes appreciated. I then asked “who the hell did they think they were?”
At this point I felt like I was losing control of my body, my hands were moving and words were appearing on the screen, but it wasn’t ME who was doing the typing. The voices said “let’s just see how the OFC responds to this post” and right then I passed out…….
I had a strange dream while I was passed out….many familiar OFC people showed up in my office…they had Ovation guitars and Adamas guitars with them…there were Martins and Gibsons…heck there may have been a Taylor or two…there were Ukuleles…..rabbits…..llamas….and coconuts? They were passing these things among them, sharing, playing, laughing…almost like they had known each other for years.
Well, things were starting to get a little bit out of hand (if you know what I mean) when all of a sudden two men appeared wearing long robes and strange hats, OK one was a cowboy hat and the other a ball cap, but it was still strange. These were large men with lots of hair. One carried a Viper and the other carried a long neck baritone of some sort. The first one said to the second one “we must rid this poor soul of his demons and bring him back into fold of the OFC, and maybe restore his hair too” To say that my head was literally spinning at this point would be an understatement….they then crossed the necks of the two guitars and chanted something unintelligible, they sprayed me with a liquid that looked and smelled like Dunlop’s #65 and proceeded to dance in circles around me.
The demons that possessed me where screaming that Ovations sucked and no one should have such a great place to go to openly share ideas. They left saying that there must be someone else that they can haunt. This is when I awoke to loud country music playing over my computer speakers (strange)???
I am still dazed and confused but slowly starting to recover….I have since read what the demons wrote and the responses that have come after it, and realize that the OFC is a pretty good place….one that we could almost call home.
My hope is that the demons never invade you and if they do, that you have the support of the OFC behind you…....hmmm...I wonder if this could happen again at post #6666…naw…too far away to worry about anyway...or is it?
Respectfully,
Jim |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome back... Legion-Jim! Where there any banjo players in there?
Watch out for 696 now. |
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Location: Chicago | Mr. Budny revealed to me (private email) that the 2008 Collector's Ovation will be the "Jihad". OFC members will be able to use it to take care of problems. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | quote:
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Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Even a demonic Jim is the second nicest guy you'll ever meet.
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an' dat's da twoof!
That he is...and Jim, if you want to play Jazz on our trip to Amelia in March, well NP at all...I'll have my iPod going with "by yimminy, yumping Polka music" to spare you from that fate worse than death...(and if you really think that I listen to that c&^p, then we need to talk). Glad you're back and among the living again...
;) :D :rolleyes: |
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Location: big island | jim,
perhaps you should take them up on the hair restoration offer so you can cover those numbers tattooed on your scalp.... :D |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...uh, I would "get a LIFE" but the MAGAZINE went defunct a couple years ago (wink,wink)! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | OUT DAMN SPOT! OUT I SAY!!
...oh, sorry. Guess I was too late. Nevermind. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Unfortunately the hair restoration procedure failed, but the Dunlop #65 left a mighty fine shine. My lovely wife checked for the sign of the 6's and that is not there either. She did find the numbers 999 however...I wonder what that means?
Banjo players Mwoody? Seems that there was some strange twangy noise in the dream/nightmare. I thought it was the llamas talking though...it was a strange dream indeed.
One other thing that I have remembered, after the OFCcism had been performed, I found myself being transported thru a string tube back to reality...if that's what this is..... :D |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Now we know why Tim wears the Jiffy Pop hat. It keeps the demons out. (or in, who knows...) |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Profound words from the one armed man. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I heard he caught a fish this
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | :D |
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Location: South of most, North of few | OK that's funny.
(now why don't all of you go do something with two hands, like play your guitars) |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Just one word Jim...KAZOO! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Just for the record, Jim is one of the nicest guys I've met through the board. When I saw that message, I figured he was kidnapped or typing under duress (or the influence of alcohol).
Good to see you're back to your old self! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Crimson, is "Scotch" an alcohol? |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Wait... let me ask it. |
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Location: Vermont USA | is "Scotch" an alcohol?
Nope it's tape.
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Location: Denmark | Curiosity and the urge to listen and look at real mastery drove me to search for BegginJIM on youtube ... I didn't find anything. So you use another username there? |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Pauly: thanks for clearing that up. I was concerned for a moment. ;)
tpa: it was the "ghosts of former guitar players" that posted that (albeit thru my posessed body). I always try to avoid being recorded (sound or video) when I play. That way no one can ever blackmail or blackball me for causing mass riots.
For "real mastery" I suggest that you search for "ovation" or "adamas" on you-tube or search the OFC for you-tube. The amount of talented people that post here still amazes me. There are ALOT of excellent videos from this membership. Unfortunately I do not have the talent that they do, but will keep on trying to learn.
Jim |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
So I got on Autotrader instead of the OFC last night and bought my wife an almost new Cayman. ...
Might not make the factory tour, since we'll probably want to take the Cayman on a winery tour that always seems to conflict. Sweet! I assume you mean the car, not the critter. You can still come to the factory tour ... I hear they have wineries in Connecticut now. That would make a great shakedown cruise. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | +1 to what stone said. |
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All of you so called "Ovation fans" need to get a LIFE!
