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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and I knew exactly what you were talking about...before I forgot. |
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Location: CT | What is your 'Rolls'? I would play out with any Ovation, even Adamii. To me, the whole brand is a 'Lexus'. I don't mean that as an insult, they are great guitars that are meant to be played. I've played my Custom Legend out since I got it in '83, and it still looks new. I know a guy who bought an Olsen about 15 years ago for $4,000, and recently turned down an offer for $10,000 for it. He loaned it to a guy and got it back with a big scratch across the top. OUCH. Some of these 'boutique' guitars are out of this world, and cost more than my car. I wouldn't want to play those out, but I can't afford one anyway. |
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Location: CT | Oh, and about your G.A.S., we all have it to some degree. My wife's friend was over the other day and said "...are all those YOUR gutars?..." while looking at my paltry 6 cases. I didn't want to tell her I was aching for more but just can't afford them. I should have told her how many guitars some of YOU guys have, I would have looked like a guitarless monk. |
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Location: NJ | I'll (very)"periodically" use the Slothead at gigs (usually solo gigs at a quiet venue where I can mic it properly, or things like weddings where it's a nice, quiet room). It has to be a place where I can ensure it's safety, and warrants the use of an "unplugged" acoustic.
At the last Tour, Schroeder was slightly amazed that I allowed the guitar to get "passed around" at one of the HotelJams.
I told him that if there was EVER a group that I SHOULD be able to trust with it, it was THIS one.
(Besides, if anything HAD happened to it, I knew everyone's room number, and could easily kill them in their sleep . . . .) |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | As far as it goes, I personally don't have a "Rolls"--although back in the day when I got the Balladeer and the Pacemaker, they were toward the top of the line, albeit without electronics. My "Lexus" is my new CS 257 (and I don't mean that as an insult either-- a Lexus is a fine car). Since I've always been rather "cash-challenged," I've always been nervous about taking a really nice guitar into some of the environments in which I play. While I'd feel bad if ANY of my guitars got beat up, I'd feel REALLY bad about an Adamas getting hammered. I've always babied my guitars, even as much as I play out; my oldest guitar, my '71 Balladeer, has a couple of barely visible "character nicks" and a scratch on the bowl that I've managed to cover.
Now -- I don't mean to sound like I go play in a bunch of dives-- I don't. I don't play as many bars anymore (I've managed to find a steady source of private gigs, country clubs, nice restaurants and clubs), but I'll take a bar gig from time to time because the money's usually good-- and bars can get rowdy. There's only been one time in all my years of playing that I've actually thought, "Hey, I could get hurt here." But other things can happen. People get lit up, they get happy, and they want to dance to the fast songs. I had a "dancing" (lurching and staggering would be a more accurate description) drunk knock my Peavey Ecoustic amp off its stand with the thunderous crash that can only be generated by a spring reverb (fortunately the amp was ok-- it's a boat anchor). I've had to deal with the irate parents of a toddler; they thought he was just so cute when he was up there banging on the strings of my Ibanez AE18 sitting on a guitar stand while I was on break, and couldn't understand why I got upset when their little rugrat knocked it off the stand and chipped a piece out of the binding in the back (I saw it coming but just couldn't get back up there fast enough). I usually take the Ibanez if I'm really concerned about a guitar possibly getting beat up (sorry, Hoshino!); ironically, this wasn't one of those times. For some reason I just grabbed the Ibanez that day. I was glad I did. Maybe I'm just overly protective, I don't know.
As far as G.A.S. goes, I'm REALLY down on the list. I have three real guitars and an Ibanez (just kidding, Hoshino-- I like the "I", too-- just not as much as my Ovations). |
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Location: CT | Well, I admit, I never actually played to a drunken bar crowd, when I played it was usually more a subdued crowd, and now only at church. If I did, I'd put the O in the case during a break. If I knew it was going to get out of control before hand, yes I'd leave the Custom Legend at home. Touche. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Putting the guitar in the case on breaks would probably be the intelligent thing to do. Unfortunately, my lazy butt overrides my brain. It seems like a lot of trouble to unplug, take off the strap, etc., but that would really be the wise thing to do. |
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Location: NJ | You take "breaks" ? . . . |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Not often. I once played seven hours straight at a farm in Walton-Verona, Kentucky. That was a fun gig. They had this great, huge outdoor stage built into a huge barn. It's a beautiful place with a lake and woods and a chalet. It's owned by a fan of mine who became a friend, and he hired me to do a private party there. In the 1950's this place was a stop on the Louisiana Hayride, a live country music radio program that went on tour throughout the eastern states and the midwest. There's a big picture hanging over the fireplace in the chalet of a performance out on that stage. It shows this kid from Tennessee with slicked-back hair and his combo-- the kid's name was Elvis Presley. So I was pumped. They finally asked me to stop playing around 2:00 AM because the audience was dropping off to sleep. Seven hours IS a long time to spend at a concert. Got my own picture taken on that stage! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Did you repeat any songs? :D |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | No, actually, unless I got a request for something from someone who arrived late. I've been called a classic rock "human jukebox." I guess I know about 220 songs by heart (although that number has been dwindling slightly in recent years due to loss of memory cells)and I have this thick binder with lead sheets for about another 200 in there. They're mounted in protective plastic sleeves with looseleaf holes in them to keep weather (and spilled beer) off them. So, between those two resources, I can go a long time without repeating a song. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Sorry, I lost track of this thread. Azusa is east of Los Angeles by about 20 miles, up against the foothills. Route 66 runs right through it. Cucamonga merged with Alta Loma and Etiwanda to become Rancho Cucamonga and sits east of Azusa by another 15 miles. Elvis never played Azusa. Nobody ever played Azusa, except the Surfaris who lived next door in Glendora. And the Boxtops came at the height of their career for a school concert. Can't remember what we paid them, but it wasn't much. Life was easy and cheap back then. We all were. |
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