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Location: SoCal | I've got one of those. What do you think of it? |
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Location: Utah | Started learning at age 13 (and still at it at 52). Bought my first Ovation in 1975 (age 21). That was a good year. Meet my wife of 30 years and bought my Custom Balladeer. I wouldn't change a thing!
DANG, I'm old even in guitar years I'm old. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by matrix:
Ryan Adams tune" played it til my fingers bled... Was the summer of '69." That's BRYAN Adams. Different guy completely.
Lyric probable written by Jim Vallance |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Completely different, Indeed! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | 
Since August 9th, 1971.
Dave |
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Location: Waurika OK | Got my first guitar in 1957 (50 years).
Got my first O in Sept. 2003 |
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Location: Westchester, NY | After college I bought a Celebrity C11, that I still own and wrote most of my songs on. I recently bought a used Elite and am activly looking for a used Adamas and Collector series (93, 95, 98 for each of my three children born on those years). Scanning eBay and Craigslist weekly, I dont have a lot of disposable income, but I have a plan.
Been playing 25 years, I started when I was 12. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I used that plan already. I need more kids, I guess, but then I'd have less money for guitars. My wife just realized there are a bunch of 30th Anniversary guitars. I have 2, the Ute and the 30th CL and our 30th isn't tell August. She caught onto the scheme when I was trying to work into a 30th Anniversary Adamas II reissue. Keep working on your plan and come up with a Plan B and C just in case another "must have" comes along. |
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Location: Michigan | OK its time to give all of us OLD FARTS a 30 minute break from this thread so we can go change our diapers and take our meds.See Ya then.GWB |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Been playing for 27 years. My wife bought me my first Ovation, an 1860 Custom Balladeer, for my 30th birthday in 1994. |
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Location: Australia | ....is there an OFC'er who hasn't been playing since the stone age ? |
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Location: Kent, England | Has anyone done a poll on average age of OFC'ers...if so I',m glad I missed it!!!!!!! :D
...if not...DON'T! :eek:
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Location: south east Michigan | Since you kinda asked.....
A poll was done.
I think we averaged in the mid-forties. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I've been playing Ovaitions since 1968, no kidding. I was a fetal prodigy. LOL!! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Roger on the meds. :D
I started playing in 1957 after I saw some guy playing and singing on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Started playing Ovations in 1972 after I saw some guy playing one on the Smothers Brothers Show.
I now know my problem. I watch too much TV.  |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Let's see..started playing with (i can't really describe it as PLAYING) a guitar in 1975. Saw my first Ovation that year and really wanted one, but at 16 years old other things kept getting in the way ( girls, cars, stereos...did I mention GIRLS :D ) anyway, you get the picture. Closeted my beloved Epiphone for 30 years. I occasionally brought it out of the closet to admire it and strum it. Well, mid-life crisis struck, (no not an affair, I have a lovely spouse of 27 years) and I pulled old Epi out and started playing around again (trying to revive the days of old?). Funny thing is, I found out I could actually play something. Then I remembered that early love affair with the Ovations. I went to local pawn shop and found an 1867 and loved it. Money being a little better than when I was 16, I bought a new 1778LX.
So, My response to the poll..played 1-2 years, owned Ovations for less than a year.
End result..a BAD case of G.A.S. :eek:
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Location: Flushing, MI | I started playing guitar in the mid-60's. I picked it up from my dear ol' Dad. I got my first Ovation product in 1979, with the purchase of an Applause. I'd always been intrigued by Ovations, since no local guitar stores were carrying them back when I was a kid. You just saw 'em on TV, and that was it. |
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| Had a classical back in the mid 70's for about 6 months. Great sounding guitar, wish I kept it, it was drop dead mint and I kept it that way. Went for the hard strings next and sold the classical for a real nice alvarez. Dozens of guitars electric and acoustic after that until I got out of music and bands around 83-84? at that time I had found my way to an elite shallow bowl, I kept this one "only" sold everything else until I returned to music in 2003. At that time I remembered I always wanted an Adamas but never could afford one... so I took the plunge bought a 1688-7 because it was available at the time, Searching the internet I found the holy grail in a slothead for sale by a guy name Elias...........and then found my way to this club that same week, and then Al's great stock of Adamas's. Bought my second from him and just when I thought I was done I discoverd all kinds of great Ovation guitars I never knew existed. And on & on & on & on. You know the rest.
Great guitars
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Location: big island | my mom bought me a set of pearl metallic blue drums when i was 10. thought i was so cool. so did the neighborhood girls in thousand oaks, california. i'd set em' up in the garage, open the door and accompany my stereo playing strawberry alarm clock, dave clark five, the rascals etc., etc. cuties from the neighborhood would line the driveway and giggle through it all. soon a couple older guys, 14 or 15 years old, saw all the attention and one day brought their guitars. the three of us had a time impressing the girls week after week. one early morning, against my mom's explicit instructions, i sneeked my drum set out of the house and carried it several blocks away to one of the guitar player's homes to impress a whole new set of neighborhood groupies. i dropped the bass drum and it landed on one of it's legs which busted through the drum, leaving a gaping hole. man, was i in trouble!
my mom's disappointment hurt me more than a whipping would have.
i took up playing guitar a couple years later when i was 12. my mom had remarried and her husband, who was only nine years older than me, played guitar. he showed me my first licks. "washington square" by the village stompers was my first song.
after i took a major interest in guitar, my mom decided to inform me that my biological father, whom i never met until i was 22, had also played guitar and serenaded her off her feet. no one else in the family is musically inclined so i suppose it is in my genes.
i have owned guitars by kay, harmony, conn, martin, gibson, alvarez, almansa, takamine, fender, and framus. bought my first ovation (adamas) 4 months ago when i found this forum.
i'm 50 now, so have been playing guitar 38 years now. |
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Location: Chicago | For me it was "My Goals' Beyond" (McLaughlin on Balladeer), Coryell's "Spaces" along with Abercrombie and Di Meola who followed. I bought my all-acoustic Legend in 1974, so 33 years!! |
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How long have you been playing Ovations..and guitar? ..(poll)
