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| Well, I've always wanted a Tornado and a 1963 Guild Thunderbird.
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Location: USA | Hmm, I've always wanted a really good solid body guitar with humbuckers. Something like a Yamaha SG100, Ibanez Artist, or an Ovation Preacher. I don't really have a specific dream guitar, it takes time for me to bond to an instrument. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I guess I don't dream about guitars. I lie awake nights, thinking about a guitar I want and whether I really "need" it. I don't, but I get it anyway. Then I lie awake nights figuring out how to pay for it. Then I lie awake nights thinking about how I don't use it enough, so I sell it or another. Then I lie awake nights wishing I wouldn't have sold it. Then I lie awake nights thinking about it's replacement.
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Location: Miami | pre-existing: none. I'm good.
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A supershallow textured AA spruce or carbon top with ebony fretboard, and OP-PRO. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I thought of this thread when I saw this video this morning...this kid from northern VA built his dream guitar and got to show it to the Rock Guitarist who inspired it...and more:
The Red Dog
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
I thought of this thread when I saw this video this morning...this kid from northern VA built his dream guitar and got to show it to the Rock Guitarist who inspired it...and more:
The Red Dog
Now that's cool!
Answers the question: Is dreaming pointless? Or wasted time?
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Location: Nashville TN. | thinking about this is dangerous.... |
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Location: Michigan | Dream guitar? I am thinking maybe Johnny's 1680. |
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Location: USA | I would have to say one of every Ovation made. Yeah...that narrows it down. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by twistedlim:
I am thinking maybe Johnny's 1680. Just get your snowbird tail feathers on down here and we can eliminate da doubts! ;) |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Johnny, surely you aren't intimating you'd let it go? It's as much a part of you as that metal plate in your ankle. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by TAFKAR:
Johnny, surely you aren't intimating you'd let it go? It's as much a part of you as that metal plate in your ankle. Absolutely NOT! I just want to remove any doubts that Rich may have... ;)
BTW, I'd get rid of that plate before my 1680!
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| Originally posted by Nick B.:
This will probably cost me any credibility I ever had, but my dream guitar is any of the Ovation guitars that were owned/played by Cat Stevens (when he was still Cat Stevens). It won't cost you any credibilty in my book. I wouldn't mind having one that was owned by Alun Davies ;)
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Location: Newington, CT | Now that you mention it, I'd like one o'them scalloped-fingerboard jobbies that John McLaughlin used to play. |
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Location: south east Michigan | why?
3 good reasons, please. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Lol! Hmmmmm...(1) Always wanted to try one. (2) When he played it, it sounded REALLY good. (3) The perfectly irrational hope that some of his talent would rub off on me. Oh...you wanted GOOD reasons! So, (4) since John owned it, it's probably a REALLY good guitar. So, then (5) if I were to make it sound wretched, I could sell it for a LOT, and get another guitar that I might not make sound so wretched. That's all I got. |
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| Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
Well, I've always wanted a Tornado and a 1963 Guild Thunderbird.
Michelle These two are on my "bucket" list for guitars. Both are up for auction on E-Bay and, of course, I can't afford either one! Aarrrgh!
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Location: Sydney | Out of interest, which of the stock 70s series of Ovations (balladeers, legends etc) would be considered the most desirable in general?
There must be one that universally gets approval as a workhorse that never lets you down and that Ovation generally got everything right with! Even if not the best... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Jeremiah Greenspoon:
Out of interest, which of the stock 70s series of Ovations (balladeers, legends etc) would be considered the most desirable in general? Hold on a sec... be right back...
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | There is one deep Adamas that I just loved; the owner knows which one it is... but, actually, I have 5 guitars now that I am quite contented with.
As for your question, Jeremiah, I have a very old 1111-4 Balladeer (from somewhere around 1970) that I had an Optima pre-amp put in; she is my "Ol' Lady," and she really produces sound--wonderful old thinner neck, and even though she's not gonna win friends or influence people with her looks (she's one of the "wounded warrior"-type guitars), I could not be induced to part with her under any circumstances. (If I were forced by circumstances to have to sell any of them, the other four would definitely go first...)
Because what we like is so subjective, I guess you'll have to meet up with some of the other Ovationistos on the board in order to sample all the flavors of Ovation "ice cream" that there are...
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I guess I don't dream about guitars. I lie awake nights, thinking about a guitar I want and whether I really "need" it. I don't, but I get it anyway. Then I lie awake nights figuring out how to pay for it. Then I lie awake nights thinking about how I don't use it enough, so I sell it or another. Then I lie awake nights wishing I wouldn't have sold it. Then I lie awake nights thinking about it's replacement.
I guess I don't sleep enough to dream about guitars. That was awesome! Thank you, Mark :D |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Meuti:
That was awesome! Thank you, Mark There's gotta be an OFC ballad in dere sum'eres! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Originally posted by Meuti:
That was awesome! Thank you, Mark There's gotta be an OFC ballad in dere sum'eres! |
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Location: Ohio | If we are talking REAL custom, mid bowl, Adamas carbon top, 12 string slothead, ebony fretboard, what evr the newest electronics are at the time. Here is the stretch) Body shapped like a Craviola. ( I thing this produces a very interesting type sound.
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