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Location: Upper Left USA | Was that the Redwood you spotted?
BTW - I have your T-shirt.
It was nice to touch on all flavors. I did notice that my rescued 1114 got picked up a lot - not to do with me but as a credit to the Ovation design. There is something about a 12 fret wideneck that that is right. Maybe they were afraid of dropping one of the "nice" guitars.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Finally got back and got the chores done. Thanks to everyone, especially our hosts. Beautiful home and back yard, Greg and Shari. I was envious as I was mowing the lawn tonight.
I was about to download pics, but I'm glad Waskel and dvd posted theirs so I can get some sleep.
Some "answers": We compared the Book and 87, but only briefly. I think my daughter was a little bit overwhelmed by Miles. Not because he's big and scary (that too), but because he just kept hauling out these beautiful guitars. I could not tell any difference in the sound. Maybe in a quiet room, someone with good ears could. I didn't realize the Book doesn't have a carved bridge. It also has the abalone around the headstock that the 87 doesn't. Innies on the 87 and outies on the Book. Different neck inlays. Other than those appearance items and the different preamps, they appeared to be the same guitar.
The wild looking collector's is dvd's 2001 Redwood. Sounds as good as it looks.
Too many choices for me to pick a favorite. Like going to a dance, I like what I brought. Miles' samples of his collection were simply amazing.
A few goals for next year:
Learn to play something on electric guitar.
Learn to play something on a 12 string.
Stay long enought to teach the rest of you "Classical Gas".
Learn "Classical Gas".
Learn a few even oldier oldies than I know. The only jam session I heard seemed to focus on the 60s.
Bring more guitars.
Bring way more guitar stands.
Bring armless chairs.
Drink more beer.
Stay until they throw me out, unless it's at my place.
Thanks for a great time. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Got home a few hours ago due to some sightseeing in Portland before we left. Damn it's nice here on the left coast. It was really great to meet everyone and a special thanks to Greg and his wife for hosting the event and to all those that did the planning.
Good food, great people, nice weather, great music, cool guitars.... what more couldya ask for?!!!! |
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Location: SoCal | tour through the Rose Garden with a great view of Mt. Hood? |
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Location: closely held secret | If you had stuck around till it rained, you could have gone down to the waterfront and witnessed the legendary "Strom Drain Sewage Overflow" dump into the Willamette... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | ....Now THATS a sight I wish I could see! ;) |
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Location: GA USA | Looks like a great time. Southeast has gotta get on the ball. Popcritic, weren't we gonna have a party at Kaki's studio? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Looks like a great time.....especially cool that a lot of old electrics showed up. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Okay, I will (almost) never criticize yankee beer again. The specialty brews I tasted from N. California to Washington...at the party, not while driving..were each and every one much better than the everyday-off-the-shelf crap I brought. Although Greg seemed to like the Pilsner.
There were a couple 1/2 sacks of specialy brews, but I hid them at the bottom to leave for Greg. but that may have been a waste given his joy with the Pil.
Add mine to the pile of thanks to Greg And Shari for hosting this. Love your yard! and neighbourhood...which is a lot for me, as I hate cities in general.
Note: The bags under my eyes are larger than normal in these pics. Caused by 5 hours driving, 2 hours at the border, and the cavity search from hell. (words no man want to hear; "Okay, now I'll have to ask you to lean into me,sir.")
Total travel time from home is 12-14 hours but we did the trip down in two legs.
Linda and I had a wonderful time, it's just too bad these things don't last long enough to have more than cursory conversations. Our original imagined itinerary would have taken about three days what with fabric stores, micro brews, and museum/libbrary tours.
Next time, our place!
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How about at Vanouver Island Musicfest? 2 1/2 days of music and camping. Five stages that are within a 5 minute walk of each other and very relaxed camping environment.
We go every year and really, you come away feeling like you've had a weeks holiday or more.
Y'make a little village within the campground and off you go to hear a few wellknown acts and a bunch you (okay, I) never would have heard otherwise...that are excellent!
Or, I could just set up the old 24'geodesic dome in the backyard and you all come to The Salmon Capitol of the World!
Great meeting all of you, there's a bed waiting any time you're lost enough to get here. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I think the over-representations of pics of Mark & I facing off was during a short exchange of beer stories. Legends must be maintained, y'know?
BTW, Mark; no beer from Idaho? What, you all drive up to Canada for your beer rather than make your own?  |
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Location: NJ | Idaho makes better vodka than they do beer . . . |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I think the over-representations of pics of Mark & I facing off was during a short exchange of beer stories. Legends must be maintained, y'know? Two reasons I took a bunch of pics then.. a) I wanted to document Mark's telling of the legendary Canadian Beer Story, and b) it was about the first time that a significant group of people gathered in one place at one time.
Speaking of which, thanks to Ray and Miles for handing out a few Ovation and OFC goodies right about then.
And Greg's lamb kabobs were excellent! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Yeah, those pictures made it look like a Canadian standoff, but it was just because everyone else sat down. I suppose they figured that the stories would be long-winded. For a true Canadian standoff, we should have each had a beer in hand, but I was headed out the door.
I apologize for the lack of Idaho beer. I was going to bring some Idaho wine and then figured this was a beer crowd. I wrongly surmised that Albertson's, which used to be a Boise company, would have some Idaho brews at it's Oregon stores, but I couldn't find any, so I brought some local Oregon beer and, of course, potato chips. My daughter brought the veggie plate, so she and fatveg could have something to eat. I didn't drink all the beer I brought, but what I had was pretty good.
The chicken kabobs were excellent, too. It was just a great get together. Just wish I had more time to fling BS back and forth. I hope we made a few of the young folks into lifelong Ovation fans, if they weren't already. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Definately enjoyed everyone's company a great deal. Sorry I take so long to warm up to strangers....  it's that shy Canadian thing...
But I look forward to seeing many of you again in the not too distant future.
Now that I know Miles has parts for my T-head. |
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Location: North Idaho | Totally enjoyed the great hospitality of the gh1s. Thank you very much.
Enjoyed all the great company and guitars. Never been in one place with so many fantastic guitars all available to look at, learn about, and experience playing.
This was my first attendance of such a gathering, and I am looking forward to the next one already. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Sorry I take so long to warm up to strangers.... I'm sorry, I must have been at a different party... |
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Location: Tennessee | Let me add my thanks to all for the great time ... especially Greg and Shari. A wonderful event. Max and I had a lot of fun and would gladly make the drive again.
BTW, the lamb kabobs were out of this world. As was the smoked salmon that was snuck past our intrepid border guards. Or maybe samples were used as a bribe? Just glad they didn't confiscate the whole lot of it.
There was an amazing array of guitars at the event. And the lesson to be learned is that while we can all argue about which ones sounded better than some others, Ovation doesn't really make any bad guitars. And there were plenty of good players there to do them all justice.
Special kudos to Tour72 ... that lad has got some great chops. The future of Ovation looks bright with talents such as he carrying the torch forward.
A year is too long to wait to do this again. Anyone up for a NorCal event sometime soon? Casa Bobbo is open and available. |
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Location: Oregon | I will start with a thanks to gh1, great house you have there, beauitful. But, it looks like I'll have to kick it in gear and get my drivers license to get to the next one, my guesses are it won't be as close as this one.
Thanks for letting me touch all your guitars though, without a scared for you life look at least :) And thanks as well for the jams, you guys were great! |
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Location: PDX | Seeing as how it took Mark a year of diligence to get this year's Gathering to become a reality, planning for the next get-togheter should commence. Perhaps this is a bit early?
I am up for either Phil's and/or Bob's proposals. As a default location Sheri and I had a such great time hosting this one, we'd be happy to do it again. However, in fairness to the travelers, perhaps moving it around the NW would be more equitable.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I looked up Campbell River on the map. That's a ways up there, Phil. You put in some effort to get down to Portland. Looks like a great location, but it doesn't seem too easy to get to. Sort of like the response I got to my suggestion of McCall. The nice thing about Portland for me was that I always have an excuse to get there. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Yeah Mark, it's a 12-14 hour drive depending on the border and ferries. (re: smuggled goods, if they don't ask you're not required to tell...in either country.)
Well, I wasn't thinking everyone would jump in the Dodge and come this weekend!
However a couple of the bikers (no fear, 99%ers!) in the crowd expressed interest/curiousity about some of our more twisty roads. We have a couple that we use to scare prairie folk and keep the influx down a bit. |
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Location: closely held secret | Yep, me and Mrs. TWFKAW are hoping to get up to visit, maybe sometime next summer, on the Stealth Blackwing and try out some of your twisties. Oh, and I think she said something about some kind of garden (vegetable?) around Victoria, too.
Maybe we can work it out to hit Woody, EH and Miles on the way. If they happen to be standing in the road. ;) |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Another trip to Victoria is on our to-do list. Last time (a few years ago) was basically a day visit and wasn't long enough. We did stay overnight, went to the gardens, had tea, and headed out. Bike trip would be great. |
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Location: closely held secret | Maybe together? I wonder how much room Phil has.
I hear they have some great roads for bikes on the island. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Ah, we can always work something out. |
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Northwest OFC Gathering is August 19th!
