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Location: Kalamazoo, MI | I have a Viper from about 1978 that is maple body and neck. It has a gold Glen Campbell signature up on the crest on the headstock and I have not seen another one of those. Maybe they are real common, but I don't know if this is a special edition and has other special features or not.
Any additional info would be a help - I'm not selling or anything, just curious.
I uploaded some photos in my gallery - DougoBlue - Viper. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome Doug!
It doesn't sound like an everyday find. Post some pictures if you could. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It's a standard maple Viper with a GC truss rod cover. Dave |
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Location: NJ | . . . and Witko(wski) probably PUT it there . . . |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Thats a GEN-U-WINE Glen Campbell Signature Truss Rod Cover.....on a beautiful looking viper!
Just the right amount of gold in the signature and the bridge to contrast against that gorgeous golden colored maple. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I got some extra rod covers, anybody else want one of these? |
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Location: Kalamazoo, MI | It's for real, no modifications were made at all to that guitar.
I almost considered selling it a few years ago since I normally just play my Tak acoustic/electric, but I'm glad I kept it. I play it a lot more now since I purchased a Marshall amp. It's got a great clean tone to it, fantastic action too.
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Location: Burbank | Hey CWK2 I'll take one! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | W2, I'll trade you for a set of camoflauge golf balls... er, if I can find them... |
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Location: SoCal | already offered him some # 7's... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, OK, I ain't got no stinkin covers. Just passing wind, so to speak. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | How about if I send you some TRC's and a Sharpie? |
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Location: Orange County, California | I would love an ebony trc with Bill's signature in gold on it.... :D |
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Location: Paris/France | I would love a Gold trc with Bill's signature in ebony on it.... :eek: ;)
J :) |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | I'd buy that for a dollar. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Dougoblue
I have a Viper that I bought new about 1978 and it is a GREAT guitar. It don't need no steenkin GC truss badtcheses to crank out hot music.
However, there are those here who would rather have the GC truss rod cover than a hot guitar, they also put gold spinners on their 1978 Cadillacs and try to simulate a modern sound system with old wooden stereo speakers parked on the rear window ledge and poorly applied Wal-Mart window tints.
The glory is in the sound, the great looks are just a bonus.
Welcome
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Location: SoCal | Hey Bailey, I never knew that you'd seen my car.... of course, I only drive it in Santa Ana..... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | UH Moody
I was also describing my Toyota Tercel that I rescued from the junkyard:
Bailey
I see your jumped in a creek is doing good, here is a comedy song I've been working on since I bought Luis's '88 Toyota Tercel that he bought from Lisa that Billy wrecked. I've been trying to get it in good condition after the Mayfield High shop class rebuilt the engine and worked on the brakes, etc. I went to the junk yard to get a sun visor, the rest is history below.
She was short and beat and ugly
But she had four gears on the floor
I thought she was a one man's lady
A totally, completely ugly '88 Tercel
She broke her sun visor on Monday
I called every parts store in town
They said she was old and ugly
And they don't keep that crap around
I recalled that on the west mesa
Was a long time friend of mine
Mel the junkyard keeper of the junk yard
keeper of history cars of auld lang syne
I arrived at Mel's historic junkyard
At the wheel of my Tercel
He walked up to my beat up car
and said I'm your best friend, Mel
He slapped my Tercel's rear end
She wiggled and made a beep
She giggled through the radio
And shook her rearend at the creep
He was short and beat and ugly
and a pervert I could tell
On Mel's face appeared rampant lust
On Tercel's rear a handprint on her dust
He squeezed her ample headlamp
and her brakes put out a squeel
She tried to hide her female pride
from this junkyard's pervert sex appeal
Well, she's short and beat and ugly Tercel
But now I have to realize
She is a thing of beauty
In a junkyard's pervert's eyes
Oh you innocent beat up Tercel
Don't you run away with Mel
He will strip you to your naked frame
and your ravaged body will rot in junkyard hell
Mel, you short and ugly junkyard Mel
Get your hands off my Tercel
Don't try to steal my Tercel friend
There's lonely Chrysler K cars without end.
Glad you liked Mel the junkyard pervert from hell
He seduces innocent small sedans
and cannabilizes their body parts to sell
He lives a life of junkyard sin
A greasy dusty uncouth devil's kin
Who sits in an office full of parts he stole from my Tercel
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Location: Kalamazoo, MI | Bailey (and others)
I don't mean to imply that my guitar is necessarily better than a standard Viper, I have just never seen one with the Glen Campbell truss rod cover. My reason for the post was to try and figure out if it had any additional modifications. I suppose its possible the guy I bought it from just put a GC cover on there, he never mentioned it to me. Naturally I just assumed it was some sort of special edition and maybe more rare than a standard issue Viper. I haven't really got any new information here except that someone maybe has or sells some truss rod covers with gold Glen signatures that look similar to the one on my guitar. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Didn't GC also drive a toyota?
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Location: Scotland | That's not Glen, that's Boris Karloff just before the make-up artist put the electrodes in his neck |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Rick a/k/a an4340:
Didn't GC also drive a toyota?
but he wasn't happy about it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | When I'm elected President, Bailey will become the Poet Laureate...
...you have been warned! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | DougoBlue
My only point is, it is a great guitar, if your's has been improved or is a special edition, that will only make it better.
Glen Campbell played a lot of Ovation guitars, he might of had a truss rod cover installed to ID one he owned or played.
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| ..poor glen is never going to live that pic down.. |
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Location: NJ | he better hope that THAT'S not the one they use for the "stamp" . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Steve:
..poor glen.. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!
Add gin and stir...
(yeah the pic is embarrassing, or humbling, depending on how he chooses to take it. But as our hero Beretta used to say..."shut up, woman!"
...no no..
"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.") |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Hey Bailey! Good to know you're still with us.
Here's a fact you didn't know:At the moment that picture was taken, GC was thinking about the signature truss rod cover.
Actually, there've been times where I've felt like that picture and thank god there were no cameras. |
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| ...I also heard he was just mugging for the camera when that was taken...(no pun intended) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Guys
I must admit that I am very close to the same age as Glen, and would probably fare badly in front of a camera if caught driving while under he influence. Therefore, I stay home and never get above the legal limit, .08, and I NEVER exceed .09 as then I would be PUI, POSTING UNDER the INFLUENCE!!!
Al and Miles would then have to make an arrest and we would have Duke University all over again as they made accusations of wild parties, and sexual atrocities right here in Las Cruces, home of the much aligned three crosses representing a christian way of life.
NO WAY!!
MWoody
If you get elected and I become a "poet lauriate", by modern traditions, I would have to learn not to rhyme or make any sense at all except to certain denizens of padded cells! But, I accept the challenge.
MWoody is our candidate
He has gas because of what he ate
He kisses babies to hide the gas
And blames rheir diapers for the pass
See what a great poet can do to insure the election!!!
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Location: atlanta | I'm fond of 5-7-5 Haikus....
Las Cruces cops watch
Bailey stumble from the bar
Lawyer makes his bond
Best--
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Location: Upper Left USA | There once was a man they called Bailey
His arrivals were rarer than Hailey's
A rant or a prayer
whatever he shared
Would hit like O'Reilly's Shillelagh! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The Wabbit once known as Waskel
Was stuck in his Ivory Castel
While gibing at those
With less purpley prose
Enjoined yet in internet battel |
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Location: closely held secret | Uh, Phil... I think limericks are supposed to rhyme... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Use a Cott'ney accent (think airy-pawt-uh = Harry Potter) and it does!
If that doesn't work for you try singing "I'm Henery the Eighth I am"... |
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Location: closely held secret | An Ovation player named Phil
On Vancouver Island did dwell
Though he's lithe and he's lean
He still looks like Red Green
And he speaks Can-a-Dian as well. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Keep yer stick on the ice, I'm pullin' for ya.
PS: That's pronounced CanAY-jun. |
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Location: closely held secret | Coincedence? I don't think so. Red, we love ya, even if you are hiding out.
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
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WhoTheHell is Red Green?? |
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See! I knew Phil looked like him, Cliff can't even tell them apart!
The Red Green Show |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I CAN'T BELIEVE Cliff doesn't know [of] Red Green. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | It's the eyes. Mine are BS brown.
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Well, if Cliff also doesn't know about
Red Dwarf
I will lose all respect for his cultural
awareness and regard him as one of those cultural
troglodites who regard Star Drek and
The Ptarmigan Family as the
epitome of TV entertainment. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I have a hat that's more like Red's if you want it, Phil. |
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Location: closely held secret | I find it hard to believe as well. So many wasted years not being able to quote him.
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Thanks anyway, Mine's a Tilley . The ultimate in Canadian headwear.
Illegitimi Non Carborundum |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Illegitimi Non Carborundum I try not to. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | My mission on earth is now completed!!
I have triggered an acknowledgement by the OFCers of Red Green who, even though he claims Canada as his home, presents the absolutely perfect presentation of life in Conneaut Ohio that I recall in the 50's. Every one of his characters went to Conneaut High and met in the bars in Conneaut Harbor (Conneaut was a major lake boat harbor), we also drove many copies of the Possum van and modified old Hudsons and Studebakers with about as much success as Red.
I worked in Ashtabula on the shores of Possum Lake where the water in the creeks ran white with chemicals from chemical plants that would dissolve stainless steel. I should know, one of my jobs as a zirconium chemical plant laboratory worker in the late 50's was to take samples from our plant effluent and test it for solids etc., usually the sample was solid before I put it on the hot plate giving results like 110% solids of unknown composition.
Ohio woke up and clamped down after all the fish died, in the 40's Lake Erie had many commercial fisheries where you could get delicious fried bluegill and perch darn cheap, or you could catch your own and fry them up, either way they were heavenly.
Red Green's Possum Lake is Lake Erie in the 60's, but they managed to save it in the 70's.
By then I was in CAL-E-FORN-E-A eating smoked tuna and Lobster from Ensenada.
If your wife can't find you youthful at least she can find you tasteful.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Anyone who rhymes Bailey with Shillaileigh has won the battle of "Hagar the Horrible"!! |
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Location: SoCal | Hagar showed,
Bailey crowed,
Struted his stuff,
Huffed and puffed,
Bailey stood there with his shillaleigh,
Hager sang Clapton's Layla. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | OK Tony
Another victory over mediocrity!!
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Information request on Glen Campbell