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Location: Boise, Idaho | A few guitar highlights: I'm sure I've forgotten many already.
Damon's 1537 is killer. One of the nicest ones I've seen, and they're all great. Damon had a bunch of other great guitars there as well.
Mike's on site restoration of the ebay Viper. It was actually a committee project that worked!
dvd's Redwood. I've played it in at least 2 versions and it is great.
The second time I've played an FD-14. I may be the only one that isn't blown away by that guitar, so it is good that I can move other things to the top of the list.
Mike's Koa. If I can get some bills paid this month, I'll be talking to Al in August.
Miles' Book Elite was very tempting. I just can't rationalize that.
All of Miles' exotics. Electrics are wasted on me, but I am not too old to dream of being a rock star. It was nice to play a familiar OFC.
Thanks to everyone for bring their toys for those of us who flew or biked in. My fingers were hurting on Saturday. I haven't played that much in a long time. |
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Location: big island | so the tim tams made a cameo appearance, huh? |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | YSBT! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Thanks for the reminder, dvd. I don't know if Phil knew that at about the time he walked through the screen door, dvd and I were up to about 5 on the "count how many times Miles bonks his head on the hanging flower pot" game. It was funny every time. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "How was the "Home Recording Seminar"?"
I don't think we got that on tape...
The Standing Ovation 07 Tour Uke went home with Damon so you Ukester's have a new member.
More on the NES Viper later. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There was a lot of video taken, but the camera operator joined many of us in imbibing a bit much. It might just be blurry video of drunks and guitars. I hope he got Miles hitting the flower pot and Phil hitting the screen door. Maybe we could post a poll and vote for the best collision.
Phil, at least you didn't walk into the screen door over and over again. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | For the record. (Slipkid's keeping track, right?)
I have the History of Ovation Guitar Book.
It has been signed by a whole bunch of drunks (I Wasn't the only one....there was a momentary panic when we thought AJ was going to try and drive to the hotel in the condition he was in. But he thought he WAS getting in the passenger side.) and will be going Down Under shortly. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I'll post more later, but just wanted to mention that Al is on his way home... well almost, the departing flight is delayed almost two hours. So he may be spending an extra night in St. Louis or something. Thanks to everyone for making this a success... but as stated will post more later.
The recording seminar was more a workshop/discussion... and well.. at the risk of...
You Should Have Been There :)
Sorry.. couldn't resist. |
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Location: SoCal | Hope Al had a good time..... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | How would one know? |
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Location: NJ | His hemorrhoid isn't throbbing . . . |
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Location: Jet City | Al's a cool cat. It was great having him there. He wails on a guitar, and my Flying V looked very comfortable being played by him. We'll have to meet up again and do some playing. I think I'd better start practicing now.
Thanks for coming Al. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by fillhixx:
For the record. (Slipkid's keeping track, right?)
I have the History of Ovation Guitar Book.
No, no, heck no. I got enough irons in the fire as it is.
I don't have a list of where it is or who wants it.
I am glad to know it's not lost and that it was at the NW gathering and that it is going "down under".
The debate might be as to where, after it's all dog-eared and written all over, it should make it's last stop. My thought, and it's just my thought, is that it would be nice to have it end up at the Mothership.
I was not there but I did phone in.
It was nice to say hello to Woody and Miles and VERY nice to say hi to Aussie James & Phil.
Somehow I missed talking to Boise Mark. Sorry pal. |
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Location: Jet City | It should go to Solidtop AKA Humple Pie next. fillhixx, I found the addy. I'll send it to you. |
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Location: Jet City | Oh, didn't see the "going down under" part.
Well AJ, I'll get the address down to you, but make sure you Aussies get it up to him after y'all are done there down under.
I'll send the info. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Okay... maybe it's not going down under.
I'm just glad it's moving again. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by cliff:
His hemorrhoid isn't throbbing . . . Unfortunately, I could almost verify this. Al has one of the worst cases of plumber's crack I've ever seen and was sitting with his back to the beer cooler for awhile.
I heard something about Brad calling, but somehow missed the phone call. It might have been while I was wretching after the accidental witnessing of the plumber's crack. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Maybe he was going for the hip-hop look and forgot his boxers :eek: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Turns out Al is also talented with a soldering iron. I was hoping he'd lean over (when I was in front of him this time) and start his hair or beard on fire, but it never happened.
Woody gave me a razor blade to play with and I never cut myself once. It was really a good weekend. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | guess you weren't hoping for a special rate on that Koa, eh Mark? :D |
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Location: NW Washington State | I wore sunglasses on Saturday because I was worried about the glare, but Mark kept his hat on all day. |
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Location: Mount Vernon, WA | Hey, thanks for letting Sandy and I party with you guys. I figured it was gonna be a great time. We took AJ and Deb around Sunday and showed them the area. Another great day. Nice for a couple non-guitar folks :D |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by numbfingers:
I wore sunglasses on Saturday because I was worried about the glare, but Mark kept his hat on all day. Probably worried about the glare as well..... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by dvd:
guess you weren't hoping for a special rate on that Koa, eh Mark? :D Al's Polish. We're used to being insulted.
There was plenty of baldness to go around, but I really didn't need a hat in Seattle. The only reason I wore one was to avoid the glare from the camera flashes.
There was also plenty of evidence that the marketing people made the right decision when they came up with the contour bowls. You know who you are.
I forgot to thank our hosts for the brats. I thought I couldn't get enough of those, but after a couple of them at Miles I came home to a barbeque where the only choice was brats. Still managed to get down a couple more. I'm really working toward the need for a contour bowl. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I forgot to thank our hosts for the brats. I thought I couldn't get enough of those, but after a couple of them at Miles I came home to a barbeque where the only choice was brats. Still managed to get down a couple more. I'm really working toward the need for a contour bowl. Wow, some things don't make the cross-cultural translation well at all. I thought you were eating disorderly children! |
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