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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | fillhixx....
Just bought a Tascam 2488....I am blown away by what it will do for the average basement musician. Went cheap on the mikes (AT2020's), but still much better than dynamic.
So....I understand GAS all too well. Unfortnately, it shot my budget for an Adamas addition, so now looking at "lesser" guitars (maybe/maybe not). Have my sights on a 1778LX if I can keep it in the $700-800 range.
Maybe for a fishing trip to Campbell River, I can be persuaded to bring my Tascam along for you to play with. (just KIDDING!!!) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Thanks for the offer Card. But there's enough of 'em around town.
The small town challenge is always finding players who are good enough to do the job, and humble enough to take/share direction. What limited exposure I have to 'city musicians' showed me the difference between ego and insecurity.
But you're welcome to come fishin' anytime. I don't much anymore, other than about one trip a year, more like a religeous celebration with fellow apostates. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I spent days thinking about this, instead of my usual quick, thoughtless, response. I think it may have been David Gates and Bread. I spent the late 60s in North Dakota, where we didn't have much contact with the rest of the world, although we did watch the Partridge Family. |
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Location: Tennessee | Mine is forever etched in my memory ... it was watching Dave Mason from the second row at the San Diego Civic Auditorium in 1975. I'd seen Dave before, but never noticed the guitars. He came out and started playing just acoustic, and did "Gimme a Reason" and a beautiful cover of "Take It To The Limit" on an Ovation 12 backed by Finnigan and Kreiger. Being that close, I really noticed the guitars and the sound they produced. Dave progressed the show to full-on rocking electric (including Gerald Johnson on bass) and finished the show with an absolutely killer version of "Gimme Some Lovin'", I guess a tribute to his days as a roadie with the Spencer Davis Group. To this day, the best show I've ever seen. |
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Location: North Texas | I think Glen C. was a guest on the Smothers Bros. show, way back in the day, and played an Ovation. He got his own show at about the same time, so that may be the recollection. I do remember saying; "what kind of a guitar is he playing?". |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | When Mac Davis, on his show, chided Glen for screwing up the tuning of his Ovation, I had to laugh.
This was after Mac's wife had left him to be with Glen. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I think Mac Davis was my first sighting of an O too. Used to love when he would come out, ask audience members for a line and write a quick song on the spot. The first solid body I ever saw was definitely on the Partridge Family. Saw the BW and loved it immediately. Still can't understand why I've never owned one.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | My first Ovation sighting was in a video for a Rush tune called "Mystic Rhythms" back in '86. Alex Lifeson was playing a beautiful Elite which he also used on the original recording. Holy crap...I'm getting old! |
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Location: NJ | Comparing Alex Leifson to Glen Campbell and Mac friggin' Davis,
. . and YOU feel old??!!
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Like many before, it was seeing Glen Campbell on TV. It was the fall of '68 and either on his show or as a guest on the Smothers Bros (not sure if GC's show was on the air in '68). I ran up to the TV to see if I could read the name on the headstock on this "radical" roundback guitar.
The next day I called every music store in town and learned the guitar was an Ovation and only one local store was an authorized retailer. I went down that afternoon and played a Josh White, the only O they had in stock, and, in fact, the only O they had ever received. They said they had a Deluxe Balladeer on order and expected to receive it in the Spring. I told them to hold it for me.
When they called to tell me the DB was on its way, I brought my Gibson SG down to trade, and we hammered out a deal. When I went down to pick up the DB, the Josh White was still on the wall. I left with my DB and never looked back. |
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Location: NJ | I seem to remember it (the show) being called:
The Summer Brothers Smothers Show" . . . |
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Location: North Texas | I think Glen filled in as a summer replacement for Tommy and Dicky, and was so well recieved that the network gave him his own show. It was in the sixties, but the memories are kinda blurred, dontcha know. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | From the Web site
"In 1968, Tommy Smothers caught Glen’s guest-star appearance on The Joey Bishop Show. Tommy and Dickie Smothers were so impressed by his presence and talent that they asked Glen to host their summer replacement series, The Summer Brothers Smothers Show. Glen’s musical proficiency and natural wit sent the ratings through the roof. CBS executives were so delighted by Glen’s unexpected popularity that they offered the fledgling star his own series. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour took to the airwaves in January 1969, and immediately soared. The variety show’s talented host became a household word across America and around the world.
The success of the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour was due to Glen’s triple-decker talent as a musician, singer and humorist and the guests he brought on the show. Glen gave viewers what they wanted:
glen campbell bio |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I forget where the first sighting was. I do remember that when ever we'd see one on TV I'd call my father on the phone to tell him what channel to turn to. He'd do the same to me. The end result was that we'd be on the phone and not watching the TV and by the time you get back there the tune was over and the jugglers or dancing bears would be on the screen. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | They had TV back then? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Black and white |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | ...and of course it was before electricity....they had to watch TV by candle light..... :rolleyes:
....We had a kerosene TV,the early ones used coal... |
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