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Location: Hiram, Georgia | I'm sure this has been done before, but for the benifit of those of us who don't know the whereabouts of THE ORIGINAL SLOTHEAD ADAMAS' and their owners, should make for some very interesting reading.
Also, in order to establish the pedigree for each instrument please do tell how you aquired the instrument, and any other related facts.
Pictures and links would also be nice.
Thanks in advance for sharing...phil |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I wish............. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | "How I came to own Slothed #0045"
By Colin Holloway :rolleyes:
This was Jan. 1990 in Red Bank, N.J.
While shopping for a Balladeer or Legend I spied a blue roundback hanging on the wall with all the other used guitars. After taking it down and admiring the carved walnut and gold glitter on the top I knew I had to have it, even tho the 1st 3 frets had been cut-thru by the strings.
Phoned the Factory to ask if they could do a fret job. The lady asked for the S/N and replied "YOU'VE GOT THE 45th ADAMAS EVER MADE???". Until I joined the bunch here I thought it was just a low S/N Adamas.
This is sad, but true... since then, it has spent most of its life with me in its case, in a closet.
Link to Jerome's FANTASTIC site for pics of #0045
THE END
hope we're not getting graded on this... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Colin,
I have a closet in a much more temperate environment if #45 needs to get out once in a while... B+ |
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Location: NJ | Boy finds Guitar.
Boy LOVES Guitar.
Boy can't afford Guitar.
Boy shows Friend Guitar.
Friend sells 'Vette.
Friend buys Guitar.
YEARS Later:
Friend gets divorced.
Boy gets Guitar.
Boy gets divorced.
Ex-Wife keeps Boy's Guitar.
Boy gets Guitar back from Ex-Wife.
Boy LOVES Guitar & Lives Happily Ever After.
THE END.
(fade to black)
(roll credits) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | (fade to black)
(roll credits)
Now that movie has everything including the happy (yet expected) ending.
I can't wait to read the book! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I wonder who would get to play Cliff in the movie. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I wonder who would get to play Cliff in the movie. Charlie Manson :eek: |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ....I was thinking more like Kris Kristofferson:
....at least he's out on bail.... |
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Location: NJ | ". . Charlie Manson . ."
WATCH it, there!!! . . . Chris Elliott . . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Naw, he/you could play the roll yourself!
Call it a 'Shockumentary.'
Because it will shock you, mentary.
(I appologize to all our asian members and will take sensitivity training forthwith.) |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Collin you get an A+ !!!
Cliff you didn't give us a date or place that you acquired your "PRECIOUS".
What's the SN#...?
Hopefully this info isn't classified or we'll have to make this a James Bond flick... |
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Location: NJ | #54
Ackerman's Music - Midland Park, NJ
1978 |
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Location: NJ | $2,400.00 |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by cholloway:
Link to Jerome's FANTASTIC site for pics of #0045
And not just because you can kinda see Phil's butt. |
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Location: NJ | #35 at the Factory:
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Location: GA USA | Looks like Bill's got the Em7add11 working. |
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Location: NJ | ElginAcres gets #43 authenticated:
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Location: big island | Originally posted by cliff:
Boy finds Guitar.
Boy LOVES Guitar.
Boy can't afford Guitar.
Boy shows Friend Guitar.
Friend sells 'Vette.
Friend buys Guitar.
YEARS Later:
Friend gets divorced.
Boy gets Guitar.
Boy gets divorced.
Ex-Wife keeps Boy's Guitar.
Boy gets Guitar back from Ex-Wife.
Boy LOVES Guitar & Lives Happily Ever After.
THE END.
(fade to black)
(roll credits) moral of the story: Boy should have married Friend. :D |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Thanks Cliff, u r a good sport.
I wasn't going to ask, but I'm sure she's worth every penny, compounded daily etc, etc,.... :) phil
:eek: Thanks Capt. for finding a guitar big enough to cover it up. :eek:
My butt is getting to be quite the problem around here, the wife sez I've got to hit the gym... |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Thanks again, Cliff, appreciate it very much :D |
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Location: NJ | That's not what I paid.
That's what it sold for in '78.
I didn't get it until '97. |
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Location: boulder | Bought #45 ? (can't remember)last year off of ebay just to screw with Standing Ovation.
Once I finally received the guitar, I took it to factory to get the tuners replaced (yes i still have the originals)and picked it up 8 months later. drove it in the front seat to colorado last fall.
I love my 1187-47, and I do think the world of the newer slotheads, I mean they are righteous sounding in the right hands (which does not include my playing). But the sound from the original slotheads speaks for itself. I am not disappointed at all in buying the original slothead. And i would do it again, if Dave was not bidding...
Did I even answer the question? |
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Location: Colorado | Gotta meet you someday Fugot...I'm all the way down in Broomfield.
Here is my part of the story of #43. I can hear and see Cliff rolling his eyes on this one already - since he has heard this fish story before...he even documented part of the story from the mothership in another thread a year and half ago. I still can't believe what the oscilloscope showed all of us. Here is a link to pics from Jerome's page...thanks Jerome
http://www.ovationtribute.com/Adamas_Slotheads/Adamas_Original_Slot...
In 1986 I was a staff member on the road with Up With People..yes the old peace niks...I was playing a Glen Campbell model...wanted something else...I had seen the 1537 Glen Campbell played when he was with the Band Caledonia....I had a few days off the road - drove over to Atlanta - to find a 1537. No one (about 6 stores) had one in natural... I saw nuttin but black ones...I was bummed..I went to American Music in Smyrna - they didn't have one either - but in the front corner was this Adamas - the salesperson said - play that one...I did..I liked the sound - I said to everyone around I had never played an Ovation which sounded like a dreadnaught guitar - until this one. I bought it....for its sound - not its rarity. I knew it was one of the originals - but didn't really think about it...it was - and really still is...a tool (albeit a nice tool.) Along the way I transitioned from road playing to pit work (I know - it's bad - I actually can read music and TAB)- the old stereo electronics were a pain - so I sent it to the factory and had an OP-24 put in it. Tim Kummer politely referred to me as Joey Mengele for that one...but it actually far improved the flexibility, noise levels. and overall electronic sound. The OP-24 is still my favorite preamp Ovation has made. Fast forward to a year and a half ago...the slothead reunion happened - and between Darrin and CWK2, it was determined to be #43 - based on the origianl pencil numbering of internal parts and the top...see pics. I have documentation from the seller it passed through the hands of Nancy Wilson...then it went back to the factory for some reason - they sent her another...and this one wended it's way to me. CWK2 and Kummer even claimed to have owned it at some point. Official documentation shows Nancy with #44...she says she actually has had two. CWK2 and others doubt Nancy ever had it. Bill's fillin station attendant/guitar builder friend disagrees - saying these orginals came in and out of the factory sometimes. The production documentation shows 4 months separation between #43 and #44. If you watch different cuts on YouTube - you can see some subtle differences in the epaulats on a couple of the videos of Nancy W. playing the slotheads. I say she had two...we'll probably never know - but it adds nicely to the mystery. At the reunion, Darren put up a wave form of the typical slothead....then put up a typical waveform of a dreadnaught...I'll be darned if mine didn't look like a dreadnaught with the double (bimodal) waveform peaks....I believe Cliff called it pretty weird... I guess my ears were pretty well- tuned back in Smyrna.
The details....Slothead number 43, I purchased it from American Music in Smyrna, Georgia, I paid $1,250.00 at the time. I cannot prove this - but I would suggest this particular slothead had been played more than any other one (at least professionally). It did shows 28 days a month from 1986 to 1993 - then pit work to the present - albeit now I am a HS principal - so even the pit work stays on the back burner now. The guitar has held up very well. Oddly by meeting CWK2, he also introduced me to other outstanding guitars - and I use them for work as well. I have played the 47-reissues - and they are great...I'd say they acoustically sound better than my original...but this one was made in 1976! Whew...hey thanks for posting the pic Cliff...I'll pay you for copy! |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | O.K. Thanks Guys. This is great stuff!
Let's see now (correct me, if I'm wrong) the following are at the location and in possesion of:
#47-Ct- factory;
#35-Ct- factory;
#45-GA- CHolloway;
#54-NJ- Cliff;
#45?-Col- Fugot;
#43-Col- Elginacres
Does anyone know if Samova still has his? |
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Location: NJ | #35 is Bill's
(along with another, I don't remember the #)
Acres;
I thought that I had sent you that pic, but if not I'll send you one, no prob . . . |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Thanks again Cliff! :cool: |
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Location: France | Numbers and owners are on Dave's website (except Cliff):
OFC Members Serial Number List - Ovationgallery.com
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Fugot,
You got #42 from the bay...
#45 is STILL AVAILABLE. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Tom, you're making this too easy, this is supposed to be hard work, thanks ;)
Thanks Colin (Hope she stay's in the family), I've, got a wonderful bird dog I'd trade for it! :p ;) :p ;) :D :) |
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Location: SoCal | I've got an order in for the OFC guitar, but the thought of owning an original slothead.... oh well, it'll never happen. |
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Location: NJ | Make me an offer . . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I made you an offer 3 years ago and you blew me off. Offer still stands. Dave |
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Location: Colorado | Make me an offer too! I found the pic Cliff - thanks anyway - I have the brain of a tout sometimes |
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Location: SoCal | $2 and I'll cover shiping..... |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | The days when the orignal slotheads start changing hands, will be pretty exciting for sure. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | I'm looking for information on who the original slotheads were issued to. Thanks in advance...phil |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Thanks again, Tom...phil |
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Location: Up North | This might be a stupid question.
Is the frequency resonance (99) on #47 the reason it is the "best of the best"?
Has the frequency resonance been documented on the "47 reissues?
Pardon my ignorance |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | good question Grif |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Jerome, thanks for posting info on #37, is JFL the current owner? thanks ...phil |
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Location: SoCal | Going back thru this thread, it's interesting to read the stories of the aquiring of the original slotheads. I know where one of them is that isn't listed here (for whatever reason, the owner hasn't made public that information). Any other new information? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I'm sure this is incomplete but here's what I got
changes from the original list of where they went:
31 Elias
33 Spyder in Japan
34 was in San Diago somewhere
35 cwk2
36 cwk2
37 Jean-Felix LaLanne
41 Michael Wong
42 soon to be identified
43 Elginacres
45 Cholloway
47 Ovation
49 Ovation
53 cwk2
54 Cliff
57 Sam
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | How is it that Al is not on this list? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Well, maybe because he's in business SELL guitars and generate some income. Not just piss it away on collectable stuff like other people we know. Dave |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | oh.
As a soon to be RI#47 owner... that makes sense. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
How is it that Al is not on this list? although I have had the opportunity to purchase a couple of slotheads they were with my dealer hat and not my collector's hat.
would i like to own an original?
sure
will it every happen?
never say never.
since my house project is coming to a close it may free up some funds for some other guitars for my personal use BUT i have a top secret ovation project in the works so it may take some time. |
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Location: SoCal | Jeff, you getting a 47 RI? |
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