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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I think I absent mindedly googled "Ovation Fan" and, just like Dorothy and her ruby slippers, here I am - home.
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Location: NJ | Five years ago (this coming March 20th), I had just finished wrestling my Slothead back from my ex, and was searching the Internet to try to ascertain insurance "value".
The Ovation webpage didn't offer any help (surprise,surprise), but there was a link to here.
I joined and posted describing what I had, and requesting information.
Twenty minutes later, my office phone rang, and it was cwk2.
In some ways, it seems like ages ago, and in some it just seems like yesterday . . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Like Cliff, I found a link on the Ovation webpage (it disappeared shortly thereafter)....
Cliff, you've told me the story about your slothead, but did you really know what you had when you first saw it and then when you bought it? Or was it Bill's call the provided the enlightenment? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | and here I always thought you were an original Cliff.
Well, you are, but....y'know? |
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Location: GA USA | I joined in March 2004 to publicly thank Samova for being such a cool guy when he sold me the Deacon. |
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Location: NJ | an "original"??
Mood;
Yeah, I KNEW what it "was", all along . . .
There was just some "incidental" mis-information that was given by the dealer (30+ years ago). |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Cliff,
Uh, happy Anniversary... |
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Location: NJ | . . I guess a BJ'd be out of the question . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | BanJoed ??? |
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Location: GA USA | Billie Joe, Bobby Joe, or Betty Joe? If you've got any sense go with Bobby Joe. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | You could always offer her a chance to forgo an Alimony/High Maintenence/Support/Punishment check for a chance to hot wax your back hairs using duct tape...
...then call up Cosmopolitan and sell the photo rights. |
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Location: big island | or a ny radio station that will broadcast the ordeal live on air... |
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Location: NJ | ". . for a chance to hot wax your back hairs using duct tape . ."
Already had it done . . . 'cept with GlueTraps. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | How did I get hear?
Well, had the steadily depressing
Low down, mind messing,
Working at the carwash blues,
Took a left on the Ventura Highway,
I was about 500 miles (away from home)
and just outside of Galveston, where I'd just figured out that
New York's not my home...and decided to settle her at
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Location: ENGLAND UK | thought i"d bought a fake, needed help, signed up,your all sick, and theres no escape!!!(fortunately) |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away......I was looking for information on my Applause AA14 that I bought new in 1977. I don't exactly remember how that brought me here!!!! But it was via Google somehow, I remember.
That was 9 or 10 Ovations ago..... :D
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Location: Colorado | At a store - I heard something about Ovation was considering doing 30th anniversary reissues of the slothead. I went to Ovation's site - no help. I'd had one for years - I chimed in...mine had no serial number...After posting a couple pics...CWK2, Samova, Alpep, PlayAdamas, and even Bluebird, & Jerome chimed in. Next thing I knew I had booked a room at the homewood suites and found myself listening to Cliff and CWK2, and Tim Kummer telling tales of long lost slotheads - and other tall tales. Then my guitar and unfortunately me also ended up in a calendar. All in all with shipping to the mothership...the weekend cost me several hundred dollars and was worth every penny....thanks AL...thanks Bill....#43 was rediscovered. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | thanks elginacres!!! good topic for a thread, I think I'll start it, although I'm sure it's been done before...phil |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I was doing some research on starting my own helicopter/industrial technology/guitar shop and, well, you probably know the rest. Obviously it can't be done. Not long afterwards the coconut bras started appearing and, despite many hours of therapy, I haven't been able to turn away since. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | The link from the Ovation site led me here. I was looking for value/info for my "low S/N Adamas". I joined and posted pics of #0045 and was suddenly bombarded by e-mails with info and offers!
i haven't been the same since... |
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Location: Midland, MI | How did I get here? Well, I was...
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground.
Or, something. Actually, I had just bought the 1868 at the local mom and pop (like new, althought it was, what, 15 years old!) and wanted to know what I had bought...google led me here. I haven't been able to leave, though...reading this board is like watching a multi-car pileup on the highway in slow motion. ;) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I thought it was more like watching a fat stripper.
Y'know she's actually good, but she really shouldn't do that! |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I thought it was more like watching a fat stripper.
Y'know she's actually good, but she really shouldn't do that! I'll defer to your experience on this one. :D |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Yeah...he's right. :rolleyes: |
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