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FlySig
Posted 2008-06-07 5:51 PM (#35905 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace



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Posts: 4081

Location: Utah
Originally posted by AussieJames:

Reminds me of my brothers
Daryl and Daryl?
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Captain Lovehandles
Posted 2008-06-07 7:59 PM (#35906 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace



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Posts: 3411

Location: GA USA		Good Lord.


This is the reason I have a copy of every picture and every video I've ever been able to get my hands on of my son playing with his band. One day I'll be able to blackmail him into changing my diapers.
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Jeff W.
Posted 2008-06-07 8:06 PM (#35907 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace


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Posts: 11039

Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub		I'm sure I have a pic of me and my cousins in the bathtub....
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Jewel's Mom a/k/a Joisey Goil #1
Posted 2008-06-07 10:38 PM (#35908 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace


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Location: Budd Lake, NJ		Gee, I'm sorry, but there are no pictures of the waist-length blond hair, granny-square glasses, peasant blouse & skirt, and......earth shoes. :D
I wasn't playing guitar quite yet--and I think most of the pictures may still be packed from two moves ago. (Phew.......) ;)

--Karen
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2ifbyC
Posted 2008-06-07 11:01 PM (#35909 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace
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Posts: 6268

Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast
Originally posted by Jewel's Mom:
peasant blouse & skirt
Karen,

It amazes me that the 'latest fashion' has had such an influence over the generations. The peasant blouse/skirt has to be one of the greatest feminine combos ever (besides a smile and a nod)!

BTW,
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dvd
Posted 2008-06-08 12:50 AM (#35910 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace



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Posts: 1889

Location: Central Massachusetts		Damon, the coolest part of that pic is that you still have that V today, 24 years later!
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Damon67
Posted 2008-06-08 2:21 AM (#35911 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace



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Location: Jet City		same strap too ;)

Bought it new at Guitar Center in Oakland, CA (back when they only had a few stores). Worked all summer to save the $.

Miles, I was just reading that Billy Gibbons used a Rockman setup for a bunch of the Eliminator stuff.
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Mr. Ovation
Posted 2008-06-08 4:25 AM (#35912 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace


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Posts: 7247

Location: The Great Pacific Northwest		You'd be surprised, or maybe not, how many people used Rockman gear in the 80's and 90's, at least in the studio. They stuff was designed to be able to be used recording direct, but not to "sound" like it was recorded direct. And it does that very well.

Another thing that isn't widely known is that they were designed to be used with FULL RANGE speakers, NOT guitar speakers. My 500 amp, (not the stuff in the picture) actually has a switch for "FULL RANGE" or "Guitar" speakers.

So.... I gots ta think'n... What any Acoustic guitar that's being amplified needs is FULL RANGE. I got to thinking why the Bose L1 system sounds so good. It's a full range system that can handle the dynamics of a guitar. So, with that in mind, I hooked up my Adamas to my Rockman XPR and the 500 amp, into my Genz Benz cabinet which has EV Full Range speakers.

WOW!!!!! I set the XPR completely FLAT, with no effects. Basically just using it as a pre-amp. After playing for awhile, I decided to add reverb and kick the compressor in a little, along with the "auto clean" function. Amazing, simply amazing. I don't know why I never thought of this before. The sound is on par with the Bose L1, maybe a little better. The Bose has the dispersion factor, so it would win an overall shootout, but for sheer sound quality. The Rockman Modular amp is now what I will use to amplify an Ovation acoustic.

It had that one quality that was discussed in another thread that many amps, like the SWR's, don't have. The amplified sound, sounded just like the guitar, only louder.
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Otto
Posted 2008-06-08 3:50 PM (#35913 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace



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Posts: 179

Location: Central Florida

Far out pics you guys! I think this is one of the biggest reasons I have been drawn to Ovations. Memories of some of the absolute best times of my life with some of the absolute best brothers I’ve ever known. Sometimes still today I miss those people and those times terribly. :(

Pic is first band in 1975. That's me stage right. The Les Paul is fake but the Vox double stack and the RCA ribbon mic are real. As are the friends.
And dig the sequins!

So why am I drawn to Ovations? I have never owned an Ovation until this year and never played with guys that had ‘em. In fact, never even had much interest in acoustic guitars at all back in the day (I mean look at me in the later pics in my gallery - Damon check out the "V") and I was really a singer anyway. But I always secretly admired the Elites in the magazines and music stores. Thinking outside the box (acoustic pun intended) is undeniably my style and those Elites were definite evidence that someone was doing just that. The "space age" materials and the rebellious sound holes left an indelible impression on me, I guess. If only I had known how they sounded back then… Nah!!! Idiot singer probably would have run them through a Big Muff anyway. :rolleyes:

It’s been some time since I’ve blown up a stage or jumped off a PA stack but Ovations are such icons of the times when I did, that now somehow they feel like old friends that I just never took the time to get to know back then. And now is a good time for old friends. The voice isn’t what it used to be so it’s time to learn to play.

Super post Mr. Miles. Thank You!

Otto
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Guitar Slinger
Posted 2008-06-08 4:16 PM (#35914 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace


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Posts: 80

Location: On The Fringe Of Ground Zero		Miles nice legs! :D You've got a soccer player look going on there. ;) Brad nice photo. Crimson you've got a Hank Williams jr. look. Damon that's a great shot! All of you gentlemen are handsome devils! :)
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Jonmark Stone
Posted 2008-06-08 4:29 PM (#35915 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace


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Posts: 1565

Location: Indiana		1973... doing my very best David Cassidy impression, pukka shells and all.
Note the Typhoon behind me.
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Damon67
Posted 2008-06-08 5:21 PM (#35916 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace



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Location: Jet City		Very nice RI flying V Otto.

Jonmark, if it makes you feel any better, back in the 5th-6th grade I remember asking the girl cutting my hair to make it just like Shawn Cassidy's.

Da doo ron ron ron
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KPaul
Posted 2008-06-08 6:48 PM (#35917 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace


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Posts: 118

Location: Winter Haven, FL		Nice pics guys...I love threads like this. It brings back lots of good memories and lets you see a little of the humanity behind the moniker.

This was taken at a Battle of the Bands contest at a nearby high school around 1985. The date in the corner is when I took a digital picture of the original.

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lanaki
Posted 2008-06-08 11:51 PM (#35918 - in reply to #35880)
Subject: Re: Memories found on mySpace


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Posts: 5575

Location: big island		top photo is when i was thinkin' about album covers circa 1979. bottom photo is an outdoor gig at fort derussy in waikiki 1977. i'm on the right (impromptu gig and i didn't have my strap!)
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