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Location: St Louis | First of all let me say that I really enjoy the topics and people in this forum. I have been playing for a few years and just recently purchased my first Ovation (Elite 1778-T).
In serching the web I have found and joined a few different discussion forums and was very pleased when I stumbled across this one. However, it seems that the feel of this forum and the musical tastes of many of the posters tends to be more country, folk and bluegrass. Nothing wrong with that...I am absolutely not a music elitist but my personal tastes lean more to blues (more rock than delta) and rock (more blues than modern).
My question...are there other forums out there that you good folks can direct me to that might be better suited to my musical interests? I intend to remain a member here and perticipate in these forums because I have already learned a great deal from you. I am just looking for some options.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome Wildwood!
The EliteT was a good flower to pick! somebodies sure to get the pun there...
We are here mostly out of appreciation for the Ovation instruments. Music genre is consequential.
You will also find the flavor will change over time too.
As a Worship Musician I get to gather several styles. I would bet that if you asked a Blues specific question you would get several near answers here! |
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Location: GA USA | Oh, we've got blues, rock, rockabilly, jazz, country, gospel,...
Welcome to the club.
Jas |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Courtesy of Country Artist:
Follow the instructions below for the genuine thrill that comes with discovering your real Blues Name:
From the first list, take the name using the initial of your first name.
From the second list, do the same with your middle name.
From the third, your surname.
First list:
A=FAT, B=MUDDY, C=CRIPPLED, D=OLD, E=TEXAS, F=HOLLERIN, G=UGLY, H=BROWN, I=HAPPY, J=BONEY, K=CURLY, L=PRETTY, M=JAILHOUSE, N=PEG LEG, O=RED, P=SLEEPY, Q=BALD, R=SKINNY, S=BLIND, T=BIG, U=YELLA, V=TOOTHLESS, W=SCREAMIN', X=FAT BOY, Y=WASHBOARD, Z=STEEL EYE
Second list:
A=BONES, B=MONEY, C=HARP, D=LEGS, E=EYES, F=LEMON, G=KILLER, H=HIPS, I=LIPS, J=FINGERS, K=BOY, L=LIVER, M=GUMBO, N=FOOT, O=MAMA, P=BACK, Q=DUKE, R=DOG, S=BAD BOY, T=BABY, U=CHICKEN, V=PICKLES, W=SUGAR, X=CRACKER, Y=TOOTH, Z=SMOKE
Third list:
A=JACKSON, B=MCGEE, C=HOPKINS, D=DUPREE, E=GREEN, F=BROWN, G=JONES, H=RIVERS, I=MALONE, J=WASHINGTON, K=SMITH, L=PARKER, M=LEE, N=THOMPKINS, O=KING, P=BRADLEY, Q=HAWKINS, R=JEFFERSON, S=DAVIS, T=FRANKLIN, U=WHITE, V=JENKINS, W=BAILEY, X=JOHNSON, Y=BLUE, Z=ALLISON
This means I am BLIND LEMON PARKER, AKA: SERGIO F. LARA
Serge
www.sergiolara.com |
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Location: St Louis | Say hello to.....
Old Bad Boy Jackson!! |
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Location: CT | Welcom aboard. I'm not into country or bluegrass stuff myself. (might as well play me some rap or polka). I play on the worship team at church, but was weaned on Zeppelin, The Who, Humble Pie, Stones etc. All the classics. Lately I'm more into modern rock, but also like blues(newer stuff ala SRV rather than Muddy Waters era) and some metal now and then. I'm not a great player by any stretch, but I come here for Ovation info(some of these guys know more than than have a right), and occasionally to read the rants of the regular members. For some reason, they are really into llamas. Music preferances don't come into play in a lot of these posts, but if its a guitar forum you're interested in, rather than a musical genre forum, these guys are good to talk to. Just ask Paul Templeman about your guitar's hemholz frequency, and you'll know what I'm talking about(but maybe not what HE'S talking about). You can also order some string tubes. :D |
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Location: Chicago | Sleepy Baby Allison?
Not much of a ring. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Welcome Wildwood...
We are all over the road here music wise.
Here is one extreme from the last OFC gathering.
Freddie & The Fishsticks
Hope this doesn't scare you away. Remember..this is the lunatic fringe. |
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Location: Scotland | I'd forgotten how hot KK looks with boobs. |
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Location: Oregon | Well lets see. My two loves Classical and metal came together when I found the Power Metal Genre. So I'am a huge Symphonic Metal, Power Metal fan. But I also love the blues. Waters, Hooker, and the best ever The Blues Brothers. I just got back from B.B. King's 80 birthday concert too. That was a blast. Bukka White is also great. Bah I could go on for hours, I'll stop now. Some little kid is blasting rap across the street so I am going to put an end to that. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I wouldn't think a blues guy would be playing an Elite 1778, but that's a mistake of perception on my part. It's a mis-perception on your part to think that the members of this forum lean towards folk and country. We've got our share of string benders, and pickers. I think you'll find in this group, a very diverse and knowledge bunch, and quite a few that are very talented players. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Freddie & The Fishsticks . ."
I think that next year, we need to install a small brass commemorative plaque in the Men's Room at Ski Sundown . . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | SRV used string tubes. |
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Location: Spokane, WA | I, myself, am not a huge country fan, although I've always like Johnny Cash. A look at my most played songs in iTunes includes CSN, Disturbed, Al DiMeola, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Andrew York, Audioslave, and Bob Marley. Also a strong presence of traditional Celtic music. Truly, all over the board, but the connection is, it is all great guitar music. My own personal repetoire that I play, or at least attempt to play, runs from Bach to ZZ Top, with everything in between, both alphabetically and stylistically. I would bet most folks in this forum are the same way. They listen and play what speaks to their soul, regardless of style or genre. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Gee, this is about the second time I've been accused of having taste!
Last time, it was all BAD... |
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Location: Maryland, USA | 72tour, you love power metal?!?!?
awesome, I thought I was all alone here :( |
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Location: Oregon | Originally posted by Stephen P:
72tour, you love power metal?!?!?
awesome, I thought I was all alone here :( Haha, Yes! Rhapsody is by far the best of Power Metal in my opinion. But now with an Ovation acoustic, I can play all the acoustic stuff like Bard Song from Blind Guardian! Juast kidding I can hardly play any of that stuff, to fast for me still. |
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Location: San Angelo, Texas | Power METAL??? I thought he said power MOWERS! |
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Location: Oregon | Don't get me wrong Greg, I love power mowers as well. Not too fond of the electric ones though, give me gas power. Although I suppose electric is more earth friendly..... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hmmm I just noticed I'm "Jailhouse Boy McGee." That's a pretty good name, no matter what the genre.
And wildwood... I'm one of the flounders of this place and although into all kinds of music 80's metal is where my heart will always be. |
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Location: Maryland, USA | Originally posted by 72tour:
Originally posted by Stephen P:
72tour, you love power metal?!?!?
awesome, I thought I was all alone here :( Haha, Yes! Rhapsody is by far the best of Power Metal in my opinion. But now with an Ovation acoustic, I can play all the acoustic stuff like Bard Song from Blind Guardian! Juast kidding I can hardly play any of that stuff, to fast for me still. |
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Location: Oregon | Ahhh! You're so lucky! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
80's metal is where my heart will always be. Miles, care to share any of those pics of you with long poofy hair and spandex tights? |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Odd...I think the room just emptied out... |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Cut my teeth on acoustic rock and classic rock of the '70's and '80's. James Taylor; Eagles; CSN&Y and Neil Young; Jimmy Buffett; Jackson Browne; Jim Croce; Gordon Lightfoot; Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty; Fleetwood Mac; the Doors; Jefferson Airplane; Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Simon; Beatles; Stones; the Who; the Dead; Doobie Bros.; Pure Prairie League; and even (gulp!) America (yeah, I know--they're a guilty pleasure! They couldn't write lyrics to save their lives, but they SOUNDED so good!). It's great music; it's served me well--because of it (and some originals I've written here and there), I've been a nights-and-weekends performing musician for 37 years. A lot of people LOVE that music, and not just the people who grew up with it (the Boomers). Their kids and grandkids love it too. Good music is good music, no matter the style or how old it is. I keep threatening to learn more recent stuff--and I do from time to time just to keep it fresh for me-- but the meat-and-potatoes is the classic rock. People want to hear the godd ol' good stuff, and as long as they do, I'll keep playing it. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Rick, you pretty much listed everything on my list, except I might back up a little earlier than you and add Bread and Three Dog Night. |
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Location: SoCal | Most of the people and groups that Rick mentioned (but leave out America). Add Rick Nelson, Glen Campbell, Steve Goodman, Jerry Reed (for guitar playing), John Denver, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, and a few others that I can't think of just off hand. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
80's metal is where my heart will always be. Miles, care to share any of those pics of you with long poofy hair and spandex tights? |
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Location: Oregon | Yeah, metal is hard to play (contrary to popular belief). I mean you have your sweep and all and such. I can't do it...yet.... |
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Location: NJ | I always thought that the first America album was a damn fine acoustic recording. Granted, they eventually developed into Velveeta-Rock commercial drek (with the exception of a few tunes from the George Martin days), but I'll far and away listen to that first record over ANYthing that Campbell ever put out . . .
My partner Rick is big into 80's Hair-Metal, and it's a constant bane to our musical partnership. To me, half of all that crap had already been "done" w/Zeppelin, Purple and the like. It was just augmented with rapid-fire, machine gun guitar scales punctuated with moronic, inane lyrics sung by a spandex-clad, beauty salon mop who'd be completely lost without the mountain of vocal-processing gear lurking off-stage. Don't even get me started on the song-writing skills (or lack thereof) . . .
Needless t'say, not a favorite musical period of mine. Makes for good fodder for Rick and I to bash each other while tearing down after a gig, tho . . . . ;-) |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Rick, you pretty much listed everything on my list, except I might back up a little earlier than you and add Bread and Three Dog Night.
Originally posted by Moody P.I.:
Most of the people and groups that Rick mentioned (but leave out America). Add Rick Nelson, Glen Campbell, Steve Goodman, Jerry Reed (for guitar playing), John Denver, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, and a few others that I can't think of just off hand.
What they said. Man, how could I have forgotten John Denver and Three Dog Night (those vocals!)? Vince Gill was in Pure Prairie League for a while (PPL was started by Craig Fuller, a local guy. We used to jam with him at a club called the Family Owl here in town when he was in a band called Melange. He wrote a song you may have heard of: "Fallin' In And Out of Love/Amie."). Rick Nelson-- especially post-Teen Idol, when he was with the Stone Canyon Band-- although I liked the Teen Idol stuff too. I forgot the Byrds, some Dylan, and Buffalo Springfield, too, and later, John "Don't Call Me Cougar" Mellencamp, Springsteen, and Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. Man, that time period generated a lot of great music.
It's easy to pick on America (I like Cliff's description of "Velveeta-Rock!"), but they DID have a great sound. I love "Ventura Highway," but those LYRICS! I can just see Dewey Bunnell writing it: "Let's see-- I've got 'and the free wind is blowing through your hair/ and the days surround your daylight there/ seasons' crying, no despair...' I need something that rhymes with 'despair..' I've GOT it!! 'Alligator Lizards in the air!' I'm a genius! That's why they call me the 'Salvador Dali of Lyrics!'"
Uh, no. They called you the Salvador Dali of Lyrics because nobody knew what the heck you were TALKING about! Still love the song, though. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Oh, I almost forgot: "No, Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man / that he didn't already have / and cause never was the reason for the evenin' / or the Tropic of Sir Galahad." :confused: Huh?!
Gerry Beckley's lyrics were more coherent (I Need You; Sister Goldenhair), but it was still a great sound. There was a certain innocence about it all back then; they were just kids at the time. It was a reflection of the times. Those of us "of a certain age" were all just kids back then, and we were having a good ol' time! |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | By the way, I believe these guys were Ovation endorsees at one time (I have an early concert DVD where they trade off Ovations and Martins). They play Taylors now (boo! hiss!). |
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| Makes me "Skinny Liver Dupree"..... Somehow I never did see that list before.
As to the original Post; Glad you like the Site. There are a bunch of us Rock fans here. And at least a couple a die hard Blues fans. But it ain't the music we play that keeps us so interesting and entertaining so much. It's the guitars we play it all on that keep us checking in. And of course, Cliff... many of us check in to see what Cliff is up to now.... |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...another "newbie" here!
...that is, "new" to OFC, not to guitars or Ovations; in fact, two of my four guitars are Ovations:
1968 Fender Telecaster
1978 Ovation Balladeer (1117-1)
2002 Gibson ES-135LE
2004 Ovation EA68-5 Viper
...been playing rhythm guitar since 1959, but lately have migrated into chordal jazz. |
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Location: Tennessee | 'Alligator Lizards in the air!' Growing up in SoCal (along the Ventura Highway), we had a lot of lizards which would come out in the summertime. As kids, we were always catching lizards and keeping them in jars for a while before letting them go again. The smaller ones were called blue bellies for the bright blue spot they had on (yes, you guessed it) their bellies. There were larger ones called alligator lizards, which had a long snout, high eyes, and fat bellies, and looked remarkably like miniature alligators. On sunny summer days, they would lay en masse on rocks, upon which we would sneak in hope of catching one before they all caught a whiff of us and leapt through the air to the ground and scamper off into the undergrowth and rocks. The song lyrics always made perfect sense to me. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | went to GC today, came home w/clapton songbook,and been play'n bellbottom blues all night. :) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "Stone"bobo; "Americas lyrics always made sense to me!"
Now why does this come as no surprise? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | WELCOME Old Tele Man...glad to have you aboard.
MMmmmmmmm...a '68 Tele....sweet :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My thought exactly. People said that "Horse With No Name" wasn't supposed to make sense because if was about a heroin trip. But then all the later songs had the same problem.
I wonder if you "meet me in the middle, meet me in the air" there will be an alligator lizard there. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Probably, Mark-- with the free wind blowing through his hair.
Stonebobbo-- fascinating info about the lizards. Sorry, Dewey-- maybe you weren't as surreal as you seemed to be. I still would like to know what the heck the "Tropic of Sir Galahad" is, though! |
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| Cliff......!! This is so perfectly stated I had to copy and thank you for it's creation! Just noticed it in the earlier posts.....
"My partner Rick is big into 80's Hair-Metal, and it's a constant bane to our musical partnership. To me, half of all that crap had already been "done" w/Zeppelin, Purple and the like. It was just augmented with rapid-fire, machine gun guitar scales punctuated with moronic, inane lyrics sung by a spandex-clad, beauty salon mop who'd be completely lost without the mountain of vocal-processing gear lurking off-stage. Don't even get me started on the song-writing skills (or lack thereof) . . ."
Personally I love the Zeppelin stuff. There is some great, great music in there and Bob used talent not effects like this later watered down musical trash did.
The 80's Rock music was like the cars that were being made. All smoke and mirrors with coating of paint that covered the thin skin of a rolling piece of junk...... and by the 90's completely forgetable by their own industries.
You won;t see musicians playing much of this Music 50 years from now it has no artistic value really. Just like you won't see any 1980's cars in classic car collections..... But I'll bet you'll still hear songs from all the big names in Rock who actually created "music"........ From Zeppelin to CSN&Y to Pink Floyd....
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Location: Utah | Wildwood, my daughter has the 1778 T and I play that guitar more than she does! It's a great guitar for rock and blues. Last week my other daughter and I jammed for a couple hours playing some old Led Zep, Aerosmith, and even some midieval duets.
One clarification is in order, though. There is a big difference between taste in music and the ability to play it well! |
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