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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | "If uou didn't know that we were staring at GUITARS, you'd THINK (by the picture) that we were watching a Nekkid Jello Wrestling Match between Pam Anderson and Kate Beckinsale."
Well let's see. Both are curvy, colorful, and attractive. Seems very similar to me, other than the fact that there is less plastic used to make the guitars look good. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | John,
Don't be dis'n Kate Beckinsale.
I'll say this...once. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Woody,
Bill's shirt read, "Banjo Mutes"
...net weight: 9lbs. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I wish it saud "Mute Banjos"
Speaking of ukuleles (huh?), it's a fact that many of the workers in the Kamaka factory are deaf. If I was deaf, my first preference would be to build banjos.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
John,
Don't be dis'n Kate Beckinsale.
I'll say this...once. Easy Jeff. I didn't say that plastic was a bad thing. ;) |
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Location: NJ | Y'know, I didn't "get" Uncah Beal's shirt until late in the day(duh.)
I originally thought that it was a reproduction of an ad from an old music catalog. It's for the "J. Henry Music Co." and is adverising "Banjo Mutes".
Here I'm thinking that it's a t-shaped bit of kit that you would put on a banjo to selectively mute the resonator. Made sense.
It took three or four "slashes" of Tres Generacciones tequila (ThanksAgain, Kim!) before I realized that the ad depicted a f@ckin' SledgeHammer!!!
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Location: Cicero, NY | I was just going to slide in a "Guess you had to be there" but Cliff's explanation covers it all. Nice.
(Apologies to JP) :D |
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Location: ranson,wva | any thoughts on a northeast ocf gathering II? JASON |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Avoid February... |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I could have something in the spring as soon as the new deck is finished. |
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Location: SoCal | In the spring, we're going to CT..... |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
In the spring, we're going to CT..... Well, I didn't say who was going to invited :p |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Did anyone take any pictures of all the cases? I don't think we ever got all the guitars out of their cases at the NW gig. We'll have to work on the group guitar photo next time. |
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Location: NJ | A good majority of the "empties" got stowed into a couple vehicles t'keep them out of the way, but there were still quite a bit precariously stacked here & there in some of the photos.
I've got a BUNCH of photos t'post, but I don't have the time and/or patience right now to resize them to where this MickeyMouse server'll accept 'em . . . |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Hey Cliff, photobucket works a whole lot better than the Mickey Mouse server. No re-sizing necessary. photobucket |
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Location: NJ | 47's, . . . 54's, . . Ute's, . . . LongNeck's, . . .
. . . blah,blah,blah,blah,blah . . . .
THIS was probably the most UNDER-RATED SlotHead there:
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | That guitar did sound good.
Why am I almost embarassed to say that? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I didn't know the Academys were slotheads. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I thought Cliff was talking about Bill... |
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Location: NJ | It'd be cool to take a ContourBowl, put an Academy-type top on it with a floating bridge, tailpiece, and a Maccaferri-style soundhole on it . . .
And yes, . . Bill is VERY under-rated (especially to his-self), but I heard some VERY tasty leads coming outta' that '84 during "Melissa" . . . |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Academy
on Fleabay
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| Ohh my god that photo Jeanette took is so freaking funny!!!!!!!!! I was sitting here looking at the pile of O's in the earlier photo's looking at them individually and taking them in seperatly panning left across them and panning right. Christ it really is an illness from which there is no escape!
I have to promise myself that I will not miss another. I am playing music and I am real busy but I still feel guilty for not making this one. I really was looking forward to jamming some stuff. And I just have to see one of these piles of Ovations for myself.
By the way when I first looked at the postings submitted after the event was done.... I noticed the guitars hanging from the tree. At first I thought someone had found some old Guitars not of American pedigree and they were hanging from a tree like and old Honda at a Harley rally!
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Location: Scotland | The fact that the R & D and technolgy for the Academy was for entry-level guitars does not diminish that it was cutting-edge at the time.
I've played the guitar Bill is holding on several occasions, and I can assure you that it has a voice way better than anyone would expect.
The one on Ebay seems to have a standard Ovation bridge and saddle (The one at NE-OFC has an Applause shape bridge and screw adjustable saddle) Plus it has a standard wide rosette. Someone should go for this at the BIN price, just to keep it in the family.
Oh yeah, almost forgot... great party, glad we could make it to see the usual suspects and a bunch of new faces. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It's in the family. How could someone named "Tupperware" not be interested in buying a matching bowl AND LID.
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