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Location: Nashville TN. | http://www.musicgoround.com
Has a few USA Ovations as well.
Including a Custom Legend for $599
Try offering them $500
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Location: Sydney, Australia | That Custom Legend is a tempting one. My first guitar was a legend - it was way too good for me, but I never regretted it and it firmly ground my Ovationaphilia. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thanx Merc, for this thread...
There is NOTHING that the Old Farts Club loves more than Shopping with Other People's Money! :D |
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Location: NW Washington State | Mercury-
Ovations show up once in a while locally, like this Craigslist Legend in Lynden . Not much info in the ad, doesn't really state the condition.
-Steve W. |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Miguel,
Now that's contributing to the effort! Great job... 
You know, some people just need a small nudge in order to jump ;) |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | numbfingers: wow great find, I hadn't searched my local CL since I started this post, looks like I need to keep actively searching daily!
Old Man Arthur: no problem, thanks to you and everyone for all the great info! |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | Just wanted to give you guys an update since so many people posted in my thread... I went down and visited Mwood last Saturday with my fiance and tried some of his guitars, he even let me try his adamas. I decided to take his worn 1537 off his hands and although I've been pretty busy since, the other night I got a chance to play it and I do like it, after playing for a good hour or so the deep body doesn't bother me at all and it didn't slide off my leg at all. Pretty happy with the guitar and it should last me quite a while. I found a good source of video tutorials online so I plan to start on those either tonight or tomorrow night, going to start off with maybe Hotel California or Tequila Sunrise...
Thanks again everyone for all your help! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You made a good choice. 1537s are among the best. If you're an Eagles fan, check out the links to the song books G8r just posted. Lots of easy Eagles songs. |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
You made a good choice. 1537s are among the best. If you're an Eagles fan, check out the links to the song books G8r just posted. Lots of easy Eagles songs. Wow thanks, I wanted to play those Bob Seger tunes also! I'm also looking at getting the Neil Young Greatest hits songbook... |
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| Hey congrats. That is a GREAT guitar, one of Ovation's all-time best. Superb choice, and you know if you ever want to get it restored the factory will do a wonderful job. Enjoy! |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by mercury187:
...it should last me quite a while. I should say so. Awesome first Ovation. |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | Congratulations. Whenever this guitar don´t serve you anymore, I´m sure I can find a place here in Brazil for it. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | check out the links to the song books G8r just posted. Lots of easy Eagles songs. ...
OK ... I missed this somehow ... Where is is at???
And Merc ... That was a good move in taking the fiancee with you. That way when you want to spend more money on guitars she'll remember how much fun and excitement you had, and she'll probably be more supportive.
Congrats again!
Bryan |
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| Originally posted by bvince:
OK ... I missed this somehow ... Where is is at??? Look on my ning page , scroll down just below the albums, and click the blog post titled "Links to OFC Gathering Songbooks". That will take you to a list of links to the pdf files. |
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Location: GA USA | Nice, g8r. I didn't realize the new additions were online. The Otto book probably has more Eagles than the others.
If you want Beatles tabs, anyone, email me. I can send a PDF to you.
captain at captainlovehandles dot com |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | Originally posted by bvince:
check out the links to the song books G8r just posted. Lots of easy Eagles songs. ...
OK ... I missed this somehow ... Where is is at???
And Merc ... That was a good move in taking the fiancee with you. That way when you want to spend more money on guitars she'll remember how much fun and excitement you had, and she'll probably be more supportive.
Congrats again!
Bryan
Captain_Lovehandles: I took you up on your offer and sent you an email, I got plenty of email space so feel free to send whatever you got.. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There is a precedent for your fiancee to buy your first Ovation for you so that you can play it at your wedding. If the two of you choose to follow that precedent, let me warn you that it can be very expensive, but so is any marriage.
There's also precedent for her to buy you another much more expensive guitar for you to play at your anniversary party. You might not want to wait 30 years like we did, though. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | It was great to meet both of you and even if you didn't go away with a guitar I was glad to make friends and even more satisfied that you were now a little more able to make your choice.
I'll count this as an Ovation intervention since your first real guitar was a 1537 and not one of the over priced boxes.
When you are ready for another just let us know! |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | Mark: funny you should say that, I was thinking about having my guitar teacher help me write a song I could perform on that day... heh guess I'll have to see how far I can advance my abilities by then..
Mwoody: will do! It took my fingers a little bit to get used to those strings, after a few hours though my fingers are fine and I can play as long as I want.
Found a few videos online for how to play hotel california, tequila sunrise and pink floyds wish you were here, should keep me busy for a little while. |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | Just wanted to throw another update in here, had my lesson earlier this week and when we were finished my teacher asked if he could give my O a run. He played a few bluesy kind of licks and I think he actually liked it, he liked how the neck played fast and commented how he thought O's sounded brighter (Mwoods other 1537 did sound brighter, but I like it just the way it is) and he said it's a pretty nice guitar. It sure sounded great listening to him play it also! |
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music to my ears... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by mercury187:
...my teacher asked if he could give my O a run. He played a few bluesy kind of licks and I think he actually liked it, he liked how the neck played fast and commented how he thought O's sounded brighter (Mwoods other 1537 did sound brighter, but I like it just the way it is) and he said it's a pretty nice guitar. And it didn't even slip of off his knee, huh? :D
(aw... Don't be such a wiseass Arthur) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So I think I scored a "Two-fer" on that intervention! |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | Arthur: yea that's what I was thinking ha
Mwoody: I would say so! I'd like to see his reaction after trying an Adamas heheh |
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looking at getting my 1st ovation
