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Location: SoCal | For what it's worth, there's a GC DB on ebay. I'm having trouble with my ebay password right now, but I'm letting be known that I intend to be bidding on this guitar!
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I found the item on ebay. Just watching it to see if you will win it. Good luck :) :cool:
nice guitar.
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Location: SoCal | I am determined. And I now know who customlegend is. A good guy and as honest as can be. |
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Location: SoCal | your cheerleading squad has formed...
couldn't have a better future home. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Is he a member of the OFC? |
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Location: SoCal | Thanks Tony.
Yup, Phil. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Good Luck, let us know. |
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Location: SoCal | I'll keep everybody posted. |
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Location: SoCal | NO SWEAT...we'll be watching |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Paul, is the attraction the deep, shiny bowl sound and feel, or the Glen Campbell name? My curiosity is purely personal. I have an original Deluxe Balladeer, which appears to be the same as this GC, except the fretboard inlays and fretboard binding, and, obviously, the GC name on the truss rod cover. I'll be selling it in a little while, because I enjoy my LX so much and, now, I'm getting afraid to play a 35 year old guitar. I'm thinking it'll be better in an OFC'er's hands who may better utilize it than I'm able to do. Thought I'd see if Standingovation would take a look at it for me and help me post pictures. I'd want to wait until the Phoenix temps go down before driving it over for Dave to look at. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Standing O rules as far as posting guitars and their littler cousins (IMHO) and deserves an Emmy or whatever. I take it that you sundevils don't put too many items up on your roof rack? |
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Location: SoCal | I've also got a 68 Deluxe Balladeer and the sound of it and the GC DB are pretty well the same. I'm the first to admit that this is an emotional purchase. I saw GC play one on tv 35 years ago and fell in love with it, both the look and the sound. It's probably a stupid purchase, but it will get played. A lot. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I can relate, Paul.
As you know, my '68 GCDB is the guitar Glen played in the opening scene of the very first Goodtime Hour Show, out in the audience with John Hartford. This makes it literally, for millions of people including 12-year old me, the first Ovation they ever saw. I can still remember the visual appeal of the non-traditional, non-dreadnaught round-back styling. I just knew I was going to have to get one of those guitars somehow, someday. Little did I know how literal that prediction would be. These guitars definitely have the mojo.
Just one minute point of interest...did you notice that this guitar in the auction has the nineteenth fret inlay like the then soon-to-be-introduced GC Artist? Mine doesn’t have that, nor does the ones that Dave has, as well as others I have seen pics of. I assume that the later ones in the run had that.
Anyway, bring that baby on home, Paul...it's not a stupid purchase!
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Location: SoCal | hmmm, "nineteenth fret inlay"
Paul, you should pass on this one and get an earlier issue. Then, I'll get this one and keep the 12-str. :p :p |
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Location: SoCal | Interesting about the 19th fret. I would guess that it means that it was probably built towards the middle or end of production for that line. I do have a picture of Glen and John Stewart from the first year of the Goodtime Hour. Glen's playing a GC DB with his initials on it and it has the inlay at the 19th fret.
Sorry Tony. I'm still going to go for it. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Paul, I know the guitar you are talking about.
As far as I've been able to find out, Glen had two of the GCDB guitars; mine, and the one you mention which had the extra nineteenth inlay as well another extra inlay between the initials at the twelfth fret. As far as I know, Glen still has this guitar.
I have a March, 1969 GTH show with a segment where both guitars are being used...Merl Haggard is playing mine and Glen is using the other one. This is one of the shows that had been re-run a couple of years ago so you may have it on tape.
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Here's three pics of Glen with the 19th fret guitar.....
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Location: SoCal | Wayne:
I'll have to go back and look at the Merle Haggard show. I could have sworn that he was playing a GCDB without initials. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | No, I just double checked, Paul...it's identical to mine with the exception of the top grain, nineteenth fret inlay and different "GC" inlay font.
It is a musicians circle segment with Glen, Merle, and John Hartford. They do "Today I Started Loving You Again" and "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde"
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Location: SoCal | I love that section of the show. John Harford doing "Mouth To Mouth Resusitation" is just great. And the guitars sounded wonderful. |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | FWIW, even tho Hartford and Campbell were friends, when someone asked Hartford what he thought of Campbell's musical abilities, Hartford replied "he has the ability to take a great song and make it good". I'll never forget his answer. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i saw glen on the news a couple of months back coming out of court for having a little to much late night fun. hard to recognize him.
so wacha going to bid paul? got to get the snipe in. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Mine does not have the 19th fret inlay. This GCDB deserves a nice home with Paul. |
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Glen Campbell Deluxe Balladeer
