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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I just hope that after the elections are over we can all be friends again at least for another 4 years. |
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Location: SoCal | Can't we just all get along? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The 1624 WAS re-issued as a kick-ass 12 fretter. It's the FD14. My prediction is that in time these limited 50 guitars will be very highly sought after.
As far as all the politics, I am 100% positive that after the election we will ALL be best of friends again. |
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Location: Omaha | Mwoody wrote:
"Back to Guitars - everybody get out your Pete Seeger songbook and play with me.
To every thing, turn, turn, turn..."
Actually, if you look that up in the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3.1-8) you will find that is does say, "...a time for war, and a time for peace." (v. 8). We happen to be living in a time when war has become necesary to defend ourselves and those who cannot defend themselves. |
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Location: SoCal | Let's not forget that we are all friends.
Hey, if you can't snipe at your friends..... |
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Location: Converse, Texas | OK.. last night on America's No. 1 news channel -- FOX NEWS -- they showed a clip of Cat Stevens playing an Ovation slothead. ANyone know which model it is?
AND ... for the record ... some of the Muslim organizations in which he raised money for had ties to Al-Queda. Therefore, why should we let him in our country to raise money within our borders for organizations fighting against our military? :eek: |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | Don't you think if the Government had proof that Cat Stevens had "In Fact" financially supported terrorists they would have arrested him and charged him?.... We're seeing it done in this country right now... Why hasn't one of our best allies (Britain) done the same thing?... He is after all a British citizen and resides in London...
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Location: Texas | Dave,
You meant, the FD14 Limited Edition is a reissue of the Folklore 1614, not the 1624 Country Artist.
Cat's slothead is a Folklore 1614.
Serge
www.sergiolara.com ;) |
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Location: Tennessee | Wouldn't it be cool if the slotheads being shown on the news (I haven't seen the clips) were one of the two elusive Adamii slotheads he got from the factory? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I find a funny aspect to this whole Catbox thing is that many of us on this thread think Yusif should have gotten special treatment because he used to be Cat Stevens or used to play Ovations, etc. Well, isn't that kind of discriminatory against all the other muslims with suspected (or real) ties to terrorism? I mean if I was just your average american hater or bush hater muslim who didn't used to be Cat Stevens, wouldn't I be pissed of that Yusif got in and I didn't? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Serge is correct, 1624 is the nylon string 14 fretter. Also a nice instrument. |
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Location: Las Vegas | The whole incident is a complete publicity stunt for the government. Do any of you know how easy it is for ANYONE to gain access to a runway on ANY of our nations' airports to slip a canister of Sarin gas on a plane while "cleaning" it? And do any of you know how easy it is, once you knock out the entire plane with that gas, to take over the controls via ground-based remote control and then fly that plane into anything or anyone you want to? That our own military has had this capability for DECADES? And that all the airport "security" nonsense in the world THEY ARE CURRENTLY PUTTING US THROUGH cannot stop this from happening?
Yeah, I KNOW I'm a conspiracy "nut". Call me Mulder, the truth is out there, you just have to have the cynicism and courage to find it and face it. And I'm not going to clutter up this post with the hundreds of urls you can all find on the subject.
Only ONE GROUP of folks in this world is benefitting from 9-11 and the "war on terrorism" and it doesn't take a genius to figure out who or WHY. And it sure ain't a bunch of guys in rags hiding in caves.
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Location: SoCal | Les, you gotta get back on your meds, man. |
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| Sorry for adding so much juice to this post.
I am not going to rebut any of the political stuff this can lead to nothing but hard feelings within this group. Lets just say we all have our views and this is good. We all live where we can state them without getting our heads cut off with a dull knife!
It's just too bad the world we live in is filled with monsters and we need monsters to keep them at bay!
And I sure hate to be closed minded about Cat Stevens music but, hey! you can't say I am closed minded if I don't want to play his music??? I'm sorry wasn't it Cat Stevens who has already given up playing his own stuff?
Ohh yeah I almost forgot I'll bet he has not given up collecting those royalty checks or given them to beeaalzibub, or to whomever he answers to?
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Location: NJ | This Just In:
BY ANDY BOROWITZ Los Angeles Times
". . Hours after being refused entry into the United States last week, 1970s
recording star Cat Stevens lashed out at the U.S. government, vowing to
resume his recording career "immediately" as the ultimate act of revenge.
Appearing on the Arabic-language satellite TV channel Al Jazeera, a
visibly angry Stevens -- now known by the name Yusuf Islam -- threatened
to attack the United States with the full force of his insipid folk-rock
music.
Brandishing an acoustic guitar, the erstwhile pop star warned that "no
one in America would be safe from my insidious melodies" before
launching into a spirited rendition of his 1971 hit "Peace Train."
A spokesman for the CIA said that experts needed more time to study the
chilling video but that it appeared to be authentic: "We do not believe
that anyone but the real Cat Stevens remembers the lyrics to 'Peace
Train.' "
On the campaign trail, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry
blasted President Bush for the Stevens incident, saying Bush's reckless
actions had resuscitated an irritating singer's long-dormant recording
career.
"When George Bush took office, Cat Stevens was not a threat," Kerry told
a rally in Akron, Ohio. "Through a successful policy of containment, his
music had mainly been limited to classic-rock stations. But now, thanks
to George Bush's misguided decision to provoke Cat Stevens, we may be
subjected to renditions of 'Morning Has Broken' and 'Moonshadow' and
'Wild World' for years to come."
Aides to Kerry passed out lyrics of songs by Stevens, including this one
from 1970: "I wish I knew, I wish I knew; what makes me, me, and what
makes you, you. It's just another point of view, ooo. A state of mind
I'm going through."
For his part, Bush defended the decision, telling a Denver audience,
"Cat Stevens is the first front in the war on terror, with Seals and
Crofts a close second. . . ." |
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Location: SoCal | I LOVE IT!!!!
Who actually wrote it? Nobody on the L.A. Times is that good of a writer. |
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Location: south east Michigan | QUOTE..."Bush told a Denver audience"
As in John Denver? |
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Location: NJ | Wouldn't that be fish? |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Cliff,
You are too much man!! I'm laughing so hard I can hardly work myyykeyboard. :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by xbj:
...the truth is out there...
This begs the question:
If the truth is 'out there,' what exactly is it that we have 'in here?'
No, wait... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | RIMSHOT/CYMBAL!!! :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cliff, wonderful post. Leave it to Kerry to have the words to Cat Litter's songs, of course maybe it was the ketchup lady. |
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Location: Las Vegas | You guys are just SO hilarious.
Hope you find the upcoming NK/Chinese nuclear attack, in honor of Bush's re-election by Diebold, EVERY BIT as funny.
Four more years... not quite. |
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Location: SoCal | You know, this is not the place for taking a strong political stance. I'm not certain what the prolbems of North Korea and China have to do with Ovation guitars. If somebody wants a political rant, then go to the appropriate website.
But this ain't it.
I won't go there. I won't talk about Clinton taking vast sums of money from China and allowing serious technology to be sold to the Chinese government. I won't talk about Clinton and Carter and their "treaty" with North Korea.
I won't talk about anything like that until Miles puts an independant and separate chat place on this board, geared just for discussions like that.
Then I'll avoid that area like the plague. I'm not on here to discuss politics. I'm here to discuss my love of 1) Ovations, 2) Guitars in general, and 3) music. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I started this thread because it involved a musician that I would think that most poeple were familiar with, and was an Ovation player. Sometimes, politics and other "off topic" items become attached to guitar related topics. Are you suggesting that we simply not bring those things up? I have read nothing but interesting, spirited, and funny posts on this thread. Is this something that should be frowned upon here? |
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