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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Paul your absolutely right, there is no logic in buying guitars some times. Over my lunch break,I BOUGHT THE 81 LEGEND!!! I couldn't help myself! I stopped by the local music shop, played a new Ovation Viper, NO COMPARISON! The salesmen suggested I try a $1600.00 TAYLOR, call me daffy, but going by sound,tone,and resonance NO COMPARISON!!! O.K. perhaps I don't have the most trained ear in the buisness, but I know what I like when I hear it.
Warps/Dings and all I am the PROUD owner of an Ovation Legend! I absolutely LOVE the way it sounds. It makes the old dryed out tunes I learned in the 70's sound fresh again!
Had my eyes on a few Ovations on e-bay, but I just can't bring myself to buy an instrument I've never played!
Thanks for all the help, and good advice Paul, Al, and Bradley. Sometimes you have to go with your heart, not your better sense.
My heart is content!
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Location: SoCal | Hey Norse:
You may be a fool, but you are now a happy fool, which is of course, the best kind of fool to be.
Corgatulations. |
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Location: NJ | you're a fool
Amen
glad you found somethiing you like.....
now get busy play the hell out of it and post a full (or in your case fool report) on the guitar |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | You got that right Paul. I have to say, I did take your "blunt" post to heart, but in the end, everytime I played that Legend, I fell in love with it. I couldn't bare the thought of passing on it. You know, the same thing happened when I met my wife! Come to think of it, that was back in 1981. IT'S FATE!!! Like that beautiful woman I married, that Legend was destined to be mine.
Norse(buy the way, the reason the pawnshop owner wouldn't budge on his price, was he KNEW I was had the first time I played it)man1 |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | I'll keep you posted Al. I might be cryin tommorrow, but I'm asmilim today!
Norse(of course, my blues music will just sound THAT much better)man
p.s. - A sign hanging in the Pawnshop window:
"No guitar can really play the blues, unless it's spent time in a Pawn Shop!" |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Like the old Albert Collins tune "A good fool is hard to find"
Enjoy the guitar. One thing for sure is that it already has a personality, now you can get to be friends with it. |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | You're happy, that's what maters.
You asked me about my Custom Legend in another thread, if it has changed over the years. It has not.
I bought my Gibson J-200 over 30 years ago because other know-it-alls said that this is the guitar to have. I really was never happy with this guitar.
You played this guitar and you are happy. THAT'S WHAT MATTERS!!!!!!!
Enjoy my friend, and send us some pictures the new member of the family.
Bradley
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CALL ME A FOOL, BUT I'M HAPPY!!!!
