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Location: Cicero, NY | darkbarguitar - 2014-08-28 2:34 PM
And I donated my gay shirt to Goodwill, but I'm sure I've got SOMETHING in my closet that'll work
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Location: sitting at my computer | Mark in Boise - I like being different and I'm very successful at it. +1 
Be differ'nt! ..."normal" is just an appliance setting. maybe a little bran now and then to keep me regular, but normal? Never!!! |
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Location: Chicago | Well, I have nothing to complain about, really. I not only learned a sh*tload about Ovations and music here, but met Jeff Burns. We are best of friends and have been making music for nearly ten years now. I got an email that we're on a radio playlist in the CA Bay Area (KCSM). Go figure. As for trouble... I must have missed the toxic Orange Suits. The rest of the gang have been fantastic: well-informed to batsh*t crazy... It hardly matters. It's all rock and roll to me. I'll never know enough to be an Ovation nerd, but I am a devoted user. Only one brand for me. |
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Location: So Cal | The members set the "feel" of any forum. Like anywhere there are some really good people and a few bullies. As an Ovation/Adamas fan, there is no other site like this one. The mention of Ovation on the web anywhere else...I'll stay around here thanks. |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | For the first time early this morning I began reading stuff in The Vaults. I've got a project on my hands now for the next several months. Fascinating stuff so far. From what I've seen so far the forum hasn't devolved THAT much. I think the amount of participation would be enough to convince an investment banker to loan ousted Ovation employees the money to carry on the brand themselves. I wonder if any of them have considered the possibility? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | When you get to the posts by and to Glenn and his bartering company, you'll know what Slipkid was referring to. Those were the days. |
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Location: Des Moines, Iowa | I loved the Ovation guitar from the very first time I saw one in the early 80's and got my first one a few years later, although I didn't even know it was an Ovation until many years later (it was a Matrix). It was only a few more years before I got my first real Ovation a Legend Ltd 1651 that I have now pass down to my son, who plays in a local band around town and tells me he gets compliments on his guitar all the time.
I came late to the group, much to my chagrin, but I think there's still plenty of love within the group to keep the love of Ovations going strong. There are plenty of Fan forums that exist for items or products that are no longer manufactured or created, so I don't know why the demise of Hartford should be the demise of the Ovation Fan or this club.
One of the times I recall seeing how close many of the members were, was when someone was selling a prized guitar and another member that was far out of town (maybe out of country, I can't recall) asked another to grab it for him and that he'd pay him when... (they got together again or whenever). The point being that there was a level of trust between many of the members that goes beyond mere friendship. The other thing that I really liked was the vast storehouse of knowledge AND the amazing guitars that seemed to get shifted around from member to member, with many of them being only the (two-digit number) of those guitars made.
Going back to Dave's comments, which I think I understand a bit because I can sometimes be a bit... abrasive(?) but only in a joking or sarcastic way. Some people know how to take me and some people don't, which I'm betting is true with you, Dave and you were just trying to reveal that side of you and someone took offense and or "fired back" with a different theme in mind. You have to take such things in stride and I've got a pretty thick skin, so I don't take anything TOO seriously unless the situation really demands it.
Since I am late coming to the group, I'm hoping it keeps on keeping on AND I hope some of you "originals" (better name than "old guard" will hang on a bit longer or at least pop in now and then and give us a shot at maybe purchasing some of those super fine amazingly awesome Adamas guitars of yore OR maybe providing that big of knowledge that some of us newbies are still absorbing.
And... if you think it's all gone and nothing like it used to be exists, then let me add this little personal experience. A guy I've never met and who doesn't know me from Adam(as) had read some of my posts about me looking to get my first Adamas guitar, but unable to actually play one in person because there's not any Adamas dealers anywhere near where I live. Well, he lives closer than any Adamas dealers and is actually not too far from where I go with my GF sometimes to visit her mom and he offered for me to stop by his place and check out one of his Adamas guitars so that I could truly experience the Adamas for myself. Now THAT'S the kinds of things I imagine made this place a real nice, friendly, and happy place AND what I imagined it to be, at least from the little bit I gleamed from reviewing posts of yore.
So, I don't think the spirit is entirely gone and I know the love of the Ovation Guitar has not left any of us (or I hope it hasn't), so hopefully we'll all continue to be a part of the Ovation Fan Club, whether on here or just in our hearts... we'll all still be fans - FOREVER!
But what do I know... I'm just a...
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Location: Colorado | I'm not convinced I am an "Old Guard" member, but I certainly am an Old Guard Adamas player. I think I am on the tail end of the old guard...or at least SH #43 is. It was fun to out of the blue learn of the OFC...and post a pic of #43....well not really I had to email it to Uncle Beal...and then a whole host of posts started, and lifelong friendships were started.
I don't get too sentimental on these things...but rather I say it was a great run. As I am now moving back into professional playing...something I have been out of for a long time...I have great tools to work in the trade....not all came out of Kaman Music, but most did.
Thanks Al (sorry Miles - in all these years and events, I don't think our paths ever crossed), Beal, Tupperware, Stephen, Prof, Matt, Cliff, Temp, DBanjo, Playadamas,AJ, Brad Davis. Just think - without the OFC we all would not have gotten to meet - and listen to (ouch) Darby! |
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Location: Colorado | Oh man - I forgot you Paul...you had to suffer through a golf round with me. |
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And I had to ride in your car....
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Mark, we should try to hook up and work out some acoustic stuff |
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Location: Colorado | I'd like that Stephen...I'm still employed at the usual gig with 2000 high schoolers, but I am starting to play to get ready for some jobs next summer...hmmm... now how does that travis picking hybrid pattern go? What do you mean it is a C chord with an Ab on the 6th string...yuck - I'm outta shape.
Stephen - I'll send our track I got to record a while back...took a while since it needed nylons....but I got through it...me and my EA 63
look for a pm.
John...yeah - you made the list too...who could deny anyone a ride after that bass solo?
Great friends all ya'll are....you too MusicMike. |
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Location: SoCal | I shoulda bin there...
Notice how the arrow for the center of the seniors is pointing directly at Beal? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I think the clever photographer planned it that way ... |
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Location: Ontario Canada | cool picture!  from left to right who are you,s by your ofc name?
nice to meet you all! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Old Farts Club.
Thanx for the pic...
Definitely add that to my screen saver photos.
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Location: Ontario Canada | well i look like most of you,s big belly and white hair so i guess i,m in the right spot. |
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Location: Yokohama, Japan | Great picture! But why in front of a Senior Center? Were you all having an OFC Charity Concert there, or something? I'm sorry for asking, but some context would give perspective (something that can be lost way out in the farthest eastern corner of the world)! Thanks! |
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Location: Milano, ITALY | My two cents as a recent user.
An Ovation player since he late 70es, I crossed some decades of electric craze, but always kept a few roundbacks in my closet for some nightime good vibrations.
Being an avid (pathologic?) collector who turned his main hobby in a job (I am the publisher of ACCORDO.IT, the main Italian source of information about guitars and musical instruments) I had the opportunity to meet some guitar guys, so I could conquer the privilege to become the caretaker of some special guitars, including the Gold-Bill Kaman and Blue Boy-Jol Dantzig guitars.
When I turned 60 years old, I realized that I could not keep acting like a kid with a Telecaster anymore (and playing in a band becomes more complicated if you are not a pro). So I went back to acoustics and the Ovation-GAS started again in my blood. I fount Jerome's website and OFC are both outstanding sources of information about the glorious (and truly American) kaman story. And OFC is also an awesome meeting point to buy and sell guitars.
So, if OFC is slower than before, it's no problem: it's the logic of the Net, OFC was born before the social thing (interacting on FB is sooooo much easier), but this is no problem. OFC is the main archive of information about Ovation guitars (an America tradition that MUST NOT be lost because of a few incompetent managers) and this is the main role, together with the classified section (always alive and well). Chatting about guitars can be fun, but we can do it elsewhere.
So: "keep calm and play an Ovation" :-)
PS: the picture is awesome.
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Location: Italia, Zianigo di Mirano (Venezia) | abiraghi - 2014-08-31 11:05 AM
.........So, if OFC is slower than before, it's no problem: it's the logic of the Net, OFC was born before the social thing (interacting on FB is sooooo much easier), but this is no problem. OFC is the main archive of information about Ovation guitars (an America tradition that MUST NOT be lost because of a few incompetent managers) and this is the main role, together with the classified section (always alive and well). Chatting about guitars can be fun, but we can do it elsewhere.
So: "keep calm and play an Ovation" :-)
PS: the picture is awesome. Also I fully endorse...
however, I am always there...
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Location: Phoenix AZ | arumako - 2014-08-30 11:29 PM
Great picture! But why in front of a Senior Center? Were you all having an OFC Charity Concert there, or something? I'm sorry for asking, but some context would give perspective (something that can be lost way out in the farthest eastern corner of the world)! Thanks!
We were doing a gig next door an a photo with the Senior Center sign was too appropriate to pass up.
L-R: Temp, Cliff, T28, Al, KK, G8R, Weaser, Waskel, Beal and Bobbo. I was behind the camera. |
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Location: closely held secret | Temp, Cliff, Stephent28, Alpep, KimK, G8r, Weaserp, Waskel, Beal, Bobbo
Yes, it was a benefit show for MS at Walsh's General Store in Falls Village. And a great time was had by all (except Weaser).
Edit: And I see Dave beat me by seconds...
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Location: Cicero, NY | Actually I had a very good time hanging with the crew. A brutal sinus attack gave it it's best shot to ruin the weekend for me but outside of a few hours that night I enjoyed the entire trip. Wouldn't have missed it. |
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what is happening to the o.f.c. ?
