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January 2004
Posts: 799
Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | 1. We admitted we were powerless over Ovation GAS, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that an Adamas Slothead could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of GAS, as we understand it.
4. Made a searching and fearless Ovation inventory.
5. Admitted to ourselves and to another Ovationaholic the exact nature of our collections.
6. Were entirely ready to have GAS remove all money and credit lines from us.
7. Humbly asked Kim to remove our Ovations' shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all Ovations we had harmed and became willing to make repairs to them all (see step 7).
9. Made personal repairs to such Ovations wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them even more (this includes frequent string changes).
10. Continued to take inventory and when we felt GAS coming on, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through practice and medication to improve our daily contact with our Ovations, praying only for more GAS money.
12. Heck, just give into GAS!
Can I get an amen? |
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August 2003
Posts: 2246
Location: Yucaipa, California | Amen!
You left out the part about our ability to hide our GAS from our loved ones until the next guitar arrives and we are 'found out".
We sneak dollar bills from our children's lunch money, let the dog out early in order for it to eat the neighbor's dog food thus pocketing the dogfood money, we sneak $5 bills from our spouse's purse/wallet, we have perfected that "who me?" puzzled expression :confused: , copies of the Ovation Newsletter hidden under our mattress..... the list seems endless!
Of course, all of the above only applies to people I've seen, not to me!
My name is Tim and I'm an Ovationite! :D |
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March 2002
Posts: 15654
Location: SoCal | Amen Brother! Say Hallalooya!
(Can you tell I'm not Baptist?) |
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December 2003
Posts: 13984
Location: Upper Left USA | Can we ask Kim for some of the round holes they punch out of the Elites. We can use them for 30 days without a sale or purchase chips. |
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April 2003
Posts: 557
Location: Burbank | You forgot the part of endless hours of scanning ebay for Ovations guitar you don't "need" or can't afford! Spell-checking the ads and writing them to correct the error. I may to have to re-classify the word "need"! |
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June 2002
Posts: 863
Location: Central Florida | Lawd have mercy this hits home!!!!!!!!
Y'all shoulda seen me last night trying to sneak around the wife to rush into the den to bid on a '78 Custom Legend.
Did I win...?
Nope, didn't even get a chance to bid... While I was sitting there with my hand on the mouse poised and ready to place my bid, the dude pulled the plug on his auction with about two minutes left to go! :mad:
Jeff |
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July 2003
Posts: 1922
Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | AMEN, BROTHER GOOBER!!!!!!
GAS is a way of life!!!!!
I fund my filthy, stinking habit by selling the ill-gotten spawn of earlier unworthy hobbies on eBay.......
I scan the eBay Ovation listings even though I can't buy anything(after my warped neck GC 12-string adventure)......
I spend countless hours scanning the Ovation website in hopes that I will find a Balladeer or non-signature series Legend model that has deep-bowl without custom order......
YES....HALLELUJAH BROTHER!!!!! I grovel at the shrine of the LX.....and offer thanks to Saint Adamas..... :)
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
1981 Ovation 1118-1 Glen Campbell 12-string
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Celebrity CC01 Spruce Top 6-String |
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April 2002
Posts: 196
Location: Shelton, Washington, USA | saint adamas, forgive me for i have fallen. i played, enjoyed and then bought a guild jf-30 (flat back guitar). but i do keep it in a different room away from all the O's. |
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May 2002
Posts: 1445
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "...forgive me for i have fallen. i played, enjoyed and then bought a guild..."
There, there, brother Jiminos.
"Let he who hath not sinned cast the first stone." (John 8:7)
I, too, keep a few non-Ovation items around, to keep in remission a similar malady known as Fenderitis...treatable but no known cure. :rolleyes:
Wayne |
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November 2002
Posts: 3603
Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Let me join the choir! I also practice resurrection theology, having repaired and saved the souls of several broken O's, and sent them on to spread the power of our faith. By the way, The Phoenix has risen (see the "before" image in my album)!! I will post the new images soon. |
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February 2003
Posts: 398
Location: Gig Harbor, Washington | I first realized I was "powerless" when I realized that most of my e-mails were from either the eBay search notifications or from Y'all...
I just can't help it - it's just that the infatuation and idolatry - and the playing - is better than any three or four letter words I know! And besides, it's the only indulgence I have that doesn't cause paranoia or hangovers (or flash-backs!).
Though I admit, it takes alot of self-control to avoid buying up every toy I see with those plentiful lines of credit...perhaps that's the 13th Step~ |
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December 2003
Posts: 420
Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | You guys are sick...and so am I. |
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The 12 Steps Of Ovationaholics Anonymous
