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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | I know this happens all the time, but I'm tired, not feeling very well right now, and have more work to get done than I can finish, so I really don't feel like dealing with this goofball today.
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Location: London, UK | What a total a**hole! :rolleyes:
Just walk away from it, mate. You'd just be wasting your effort. He's never going to listen anyway, and he's really not worth your time or trouble. |
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Location: Tennessee | Ah, let it go. He wasn't dissing Ovations. I wouldn't put Ovation in the category of high art guitar building either. Fantastic, yes. But definitely not "high art" in the way he was using the term. None of us (with a few exception$) would be playing them if they were.
What you have there is an old guy with time-honored prejudices about staining wood ... if you want to rile things up, post up about how Taylor does their bridge staining perfectly, let the old guy respond, and then sit back and watch the fireworks show. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Patch,
Just let it go. He's stuck on himself and has an 'I' problem... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Probably not worth the effort. He's got an opinion and I guess nothing wrong with that.
Maybe I'm just getting lazy, but seems years ago I would take up the challange and dutifully march into cyber battle to defend the Ovation name against all those who desire to bring her down. But these days the long winded point-counterpoint exchanges of one-ups-man-ship with nameless, faceless dip-shits on the other end of the computer line are just as satisfying with a simple response of "Whatever" CLICK |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I agree. Why waste the time over there when you can just stay here and argue about macs and pc's...you'll end up in the same place. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | but more fun here. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | It's like teaching a pig to sing.
A waste of your time and it only irritates the pig.
Up Next; SINGING PIGS! |
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Location: Jet City | I think AGF is a great place. We should be more like them here.
Tell ya what, I'll start things off...
Ovations suck! |
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Location: So. Cal. | Ovation / Adamas do suck:
1. sucked in a lot of my time looking for them, buying and playing them
2. sucked in a lot of my money going after one, after another
3. sucked in a lot of people listening to me talking about them on and on
4. sucked in a good number of people listening to the music and astonished at the wonderful sound
5. finally, sucked in all of you reading this.... |
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Location: New Hampsha | Yeah, and ya can't build furniture, neither!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Google him and read his website. His ego may be justified, if that's possible. It's a little bit too much of the "I walked 5 miles to school in blizzards, uphill both ways" but it's interesting to see how he learned his craft. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | To be fair, these are FAN FORUMS for specific brands. FAN comes from FANATICS. Part of being fanatical about anything is that you naturally adopt a negative stance towards the alternative product or point of view. For example, there is no such thing as a NY YANKEES fan who has a neutral opinion of the RED SOX. If you love the Yankees, by default you hate the Red Sox. That's the way it is.
The AGF is the old TAYLOR forum. Before Taylor shut down the use of the name in the wake of such tremendous negative comments about the Expression System preamp (which sucks more than the Red Sox). Taylor homos on the AGF are SUPPOSED to hate Ovations. That's their JOB. So let's give them credit for doing a good job it it. Here, here.
I see nothing wrong with bashing Ovations on the AGF. It's good sport, just like bashing Taylors over here, bashing Chevys on the Ford forum, Les Pauls on the Strat forum, etc. Afterall, it's only entertainment no actual animals get damaged in the process. |
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| Yeah, I looked at it. No way this guy's gonna listen to anything good about Ovations because Kaman used to make helicopters, end of story. He probably doesn't like Martins because old CF used to make cabinets.
Just let it go. But if the Ovation works for you as it does me, that is, in fact, the end of the story. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | He's they type of asshole who would only ride in a Sikorsky helicopter............ |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I thought of the same thing, Losov. You could say that he used to make log cabins. Frankly, I don't know that I'd want to pay a bunch of money for a guitar built by someone that never did anything else before building guitars.
On another thread he says he only uses ivory from elephants from a certain region for saddles because it sounds better. I don't care how good they are, I don't think you can make a flamenco guitar that sounds good. |
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Location: Location Location Location | Oh, come on..everybody knows Ovations suck. ;)
Just ask Paul McCartney, John Lennon, John Mclaughlin, Cat Stevens, Charlie Byrd, Harry Chapin, Jim Croce...(well, ok, a few of those might not answer), Adrian Legg, Al DiMeola..THEY all know Ovations suck! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Hey, I looked at the guys profile. If it's true his opinion is well informed. His tastes may differ from ours but that's his flavour.
And bless the world for having the variety it does, at lest we can all sing together over a pint at the local. or ice cream at the parlour, whatever. |
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Location: UK | He can bash all he likes, i have loved them since they first appeared and have owned at least one ever since. I Don't really care what he thinks, i use my Adamas' on stage every week and there's nothing better for me. They sound great and everyone comments on their great sound too! |
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Location: New Hampsha | Can we get back to bashing Ovations?
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