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Location: Tennessee | Al ... tell Rick that if you cannot be there for the tour, the other attendees vow to wear mauve shirts and berets as a sign of solidarity. If that still doesn't move him, gently point out what a public relations nightmare would ensue, including that which results from PETA folks who know that llamas in mauve wearing berets is clear cut animal cruelty. |
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Location: south east Michigan | A week later would get into the July 4th area. The kids should be out of school if it was a week earlier. I hope they change it AL. I'd like to meet you. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Slipkid:
A week later would get into the July 4th area. The kids should be out of school if it was a week earlier. I hope they change it AL. I'd like to meet you.
You will be sorry is what I can see almost 3000 people mouthing as they read this message.
Ultimately the way my life has been going the past 6 months, I will go with the flow. Sometimes business gets in the way of pleasure.
I am looking into orgainzing a tour of the rock and roll hall of fame for our membership in april or may of next year also. So it may be just a fun filled year. LOL |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Al, a tour of Cleveland R&R hall of Flame sounds like a good thing. The Ovation tour won't be the same without you so they need to keep that in mind. Also I had heard that this year NO KIDS under 18. Is that still the case? Something about the insurance regulations? I heard from some of the employees that last year the kids were a problem climbing on equipment and stacks of guitar wood, essentially unsupervised. Yes their perents were right next to them but with the parent 100% facinated with watching the manufacturing process going on the kids were pretty much on their own. I wasn't there so my information is second hand. I can say that the guide line we used to use was that a person had to be of working age, 18, to go through on a tour. Yes exceptions were made but these were usually one parent and one kid or a group of boy scouts who were given a rather sanitized tour well away from the machines well away from anything that could hurt. And that was back before lawyers could advertise on TV.
This is the time to deal with it, any guidelines for this year?? |
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Location: NJ | CWKII
As our society becomes more litigious, these issues come up. Unfortunately, there are some new rules in place for the next factory visit. I am not exactly sure what they are, the age limitation, or how the factory will have to deal with it but there will be some changes.
Let's face it, the Ovation and Hamer tours put us right in the working factory. Although every precaution is made to prevent injury to employees and guests accidents can happen and combine that with insurance regulations and guidelines and the whole things gets complicated.
As soon as I find out any specifics, I will pass along that information, but you are correct, some changes will be made. |
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Location: NJ | Ok everyone Rick Hall just got back to me
the date of the 05 factory tour will be friday june 17th.
The official ruling on kids is no one under 14 and all must be acoompanied by an adult.
Mark your calendar!!! |
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Location: Converse, Texas | June 17 eh? That's 5 weeks away from my 25th anniversary with my sweetie! I wonder if I can pull that one off -- a romantic getaway to the Ovation Factory Tour... I wonder if she'll buy that one? "Honey, you have just GOT to meet this guy named Al who LOVES muave shirts and berets!"
Gee... is there anything else to see in Connecticut that would help me sell this to my wife? :D |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Hey, Craig. We went down to the beach on Saturday and had a great lunch in a little town on the way back...
If it works out for us to go, we'll try to set up a Saturday jam at our friend's barn - they live a few miles from the factory. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | That's going to be a busy few weekends.. Ohio Guitar Show, Hartford Factory Tour, and then the Philly show. Cooooool.
Glad about the no kids. I damn near had a heart-attack as I'm normally not around anything that moves that fast on two legs, especially near equipment. My hats off to those that can handle kids be they your own or other peoples. |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | Thank you Al, I'm filling out the paperwork for my vacation time right now..
Can't wait for this one..
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I can't wait. I was pissed that I couldn't come last year. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | June 17th, Jam at the barn, look into other experiences besides the Factory.
I think the idea of an Alternative Shopping/massage/Whatever thingy for the non-interested Spouses came up.
How about a locally sponsored Sunday service? We could start an email list of interested participants and planners. A Potluck is probably inevitable, since when two or more are gathered there is must be a warm dish (a Presbyterian/Methodist/whomever joke)! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Hiz, Lots to sell her on. How do you want the sales pitch to go? Go to Stockbridge and see Alice's restaurant, the museeum of Norman Rockwell's paintings, the Mark Twain & Harriet Bleecher Stoe houses in Hartford. The Basket Ball hall of shame in Springfield. The covered bridge in Cornball CT, that little gitter factory. All kinds of good stuff. |
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Location: NJ | . . . and don't forget the chair in the hotel lobby where Templeman passed out . . . I'm SURE there's a "plaque" on it by now . . . if not, I'll BRING one!
ALSO:
The "Wild Llamas of Windsor Locks"
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| Man you guy's just ain't right! I owe it to myself to try and make this one. Do we all get drunk and pass the slothead's around??
Ohh man that was SO not funny!
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | If you need more things to do... It's a short drive to Foxwoods Casino or catch the ferry at Woods Hole to Martha's Vineyard... There's more to do in that part of the country than in all of Oklahoma..
Gerald |
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Location: Converse, Texas | W-2: Basketball Hall of Shame? Only if they have the video of the Pistons/Pacers game!
Stockbridge, eh? "27 8 X 10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explainin' what it was about..."
This might work... |
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Location: Vermont USA | Hi All,
Is there a cost for the tour.
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Location: NJ | Buy yourself the Transportation to get there (and back), and buy yourself a place to sleep while you're there . . . . |
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Location: Vermont USA | Thanks Cliff
Paul |
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Location: Converse, Texas | I hope the llamas will be there -- again. |
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Location: NJ | Okay, but this year they stay in YOUR room!!
Last year, the maids (once they chewed through their restraints), threw a FIT when they saw the mess the llamas left in my room . . . . |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Note that it is Father's Day weekend, which will probably impact some people's ability to go, either positively or negatively.
Maybe the llama can bring her father along.
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Location: NJ | ". . . Note that it is Father's Day weekend . . ."
Now if THAT ain't a perfect excuse to "get t'go", I don't know WHAT is!!! . . .
Maybe I need to post some home-printable, official OFC coupons that say "Give Dad What He REALLY Wants This Year!" . . . . . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yup....Fathers Day...That's how I'm playing it. |
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