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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | And as the New Year rolls in, it is the perfect time for the return of the religous sign! :) |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Hmmm...I didn't know Taylors worked better as vacuum cleaners than they did as guitars....
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Am I the only one that finds such language offensive on a church sign? |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | I played a Taylor today and the frett buzzing was really a drag. I picked the most expensive guitar in the store to play with... :D I think I'll just keep shaking my head.
I have to admit, the feel of the wood on the neck was very nice. It must have been just me. ;) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | OldLiverJones.....that sign is a joke. You go to the website and you can make it say whatever you want....then you just copy and past.
It pops up on the OFC every 6 months or so making fun of other guitars. The last time around there were some real funny ones about Deacons, Preachers, Vipers, etc. |
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Location: SoCal | You mean, gosh, it's not real? I'm shocked, shocked, that there's gambling going on here.... |
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Location: closely held secret | Wrong church, Moody. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Oh! I feel foolish. It must be the bad experiences I've had at my former Baptist Church that made me flench. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I was fooled the first time I saw it also. |
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Location: closely held secret | This one's true, and I could kick myself for not getting a picture of it. Back in the 80's I was on my way to work in Spokane when I passed a Christian Science church. Traditional old stone building, with a permanant reader board out front where they changed the theme of the message every week, but all the other stuff (meeting times, sunday school, ect) remained the same.
So I drive by, and see the theme in big bold letters:
ETERNAL DAMNATION
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Everyone Welcome! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I led that parade! |
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Location: south east Michigan | "Hello...my name is Brad and I have played a couple Taylors that I liked."
"Hi Brad!!!!"
However...in my last trip to GC even the most expensive Taylor had such a terrible set-up that I never got beyond the first chord. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Here's irony: That picture was sent to me by a friend who is a PASTOR. He loves a good laugh and can see the humor in anything. Although I'm an anti-believer, I've actually played in his church a few times (Mountain Park Community Church), which he thinks is just the biggest irony of all. Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | "anti-believer"? Does that mean you are against all believers? Or just against believing in anything? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | "Anti-Believers" are just a more radical faction of non-believers. I think under the right circumstances non-believers can still be converted. The anti-believers are a lost cause. Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | Sorry to hear that. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Dave,
If there's nothing there why are you pushing so hard?
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Location: Omaha, NE | Originally posted by Slipkid:
in my last trip to GC even the most expensive Taylor had such a terrible set-up that I never got beyond the first chord It's funny you should say that. My experience was kindof the same.
Here in Omaha, the biggest guitar store is Russo's. They have a decent selection (although no Ovations). Anyway, I'd stop in from time to time and plink away. There was this Taylor that I would grab, and it sounded REALLY good, but the action was just terrible.
So, I asked them what was up. These are supposed to be people who know guitars, and Taylor are supposed to be "good", so why not give is a proper setup?
So, they did a setup, and it was tons better. I played it for a while and really started to like it, but there were a couple of glitches I noticed. So I talked to them about that, and they set it up again, and it was even better this time.
I guess you know how the story ends: I ended up buying the guitar. But still I wonder why the setup was so far off in the first place. I'm guessing that it left the Taylor factory that way, and that Russo's just pulled it out of the case and hung it on the wall. That seems really strange. Taylor does a lot of things well, and some things exceptionally well. It seems odd to me that they would miss the target so badly in this area.
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Location: south east Michigan | I went into my local (independent) music store of choice and the tech was working on a new Gibson electric on the counter. He was working away, fileing the ends of the frets down. There was quite a pile of shavings. I asked if it came from the factory that way and he said "Yeah...ya gotta look them over before you put them out on the rack". |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Doesn't say a lot for Gibson. But nice to see that the local shop takes things seriously and pays attention to such detail. Can you imagine GC ever doing such a thing? Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Omaha:
They have a decent selection (although no Ovations). C'mon, Jeff, make up your mind. They either have a decent selection, or they have no Ovations. You can't have it both ways! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Omaha | I knew I was going to like this thread when I saw the title, but it just keeps getting better, what with Dave and Moody bantering back and forth...
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Location: Omaha | ...and Jeff, I don't know why but Deitze in Lincoln (the downtown store) has a MUCH better selection of Ovations than I've EVER seen in Omaha (at Deitze, Russo's or Schmidt)... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The Gibson website says that they bring the binding up over the end of the frets. I hope he wasn't filing off the binding. |
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