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Location: Upper Left USA | I was recently asked what "Number of Music Store/OFC interventions to date is..." was all about. My answer is basically the times I couldn't keep my mouth shut because I KNOW about Ovations. I share that knowledge too.
I like to tune the O's (and Tacoma's) in a store.
I hand out OFC picks as business cards and promote membership.
I bring Ovation Solids and Customs out in public and into GC on a Saturday after Payday to try out amps or find more cases that don't fit.
I admit I have a problem. I don't want to quit.
How about you? Are you an OFC Kibitz? |
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Location: Vermont USA | I think the U.S. Ovations are some of the better sounding guitars out there, Martins,Larrivee Guitars, and Collings are awesome also. But there is only one OFC and that can't be beat.
Pauly |
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| Whenever I'm in GC I'm almost as annoying as the airport Krishnas. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I don't do any guitar store proselytizing, other than picking up the occasional Ovation and playing something. Lead by example, you know.
But I do hang out on the Acoustic Guitar mag forum and am quick to recommend Ovations and the OFC whenever I can. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | For awhile I sold more of GC's Ovations than the salesmen did and I told the manager I wanted a commission. The manager went to work for Taylor. Since then they haven't had too many interesting Ovations worth selling. I actually got caught trying out other brands, but mostly Takamines. |
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Location: NJ | I am totally devoid of "tolerance" for the GuitarCenter AssWipes (on either side of the counter).
I only go IN there if I "NEED" something (and they're usually my "last resort").
I go in. I get(sometimes, when the planets are properly aligned). I get out.
I do my proselytizing by regularly gigging. |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Oh God, I have become one of you. Last weekend I was driving one of my kids to soccer near Waterford Michigan and noticed a guitar store. So after dropping said kid off at soccer I hung a "u" and hightailed it back to the store. (I'm always up for a new guitar shop to kill time...) Lots and lots of guitars all over the place, and no Ovations to be found, except way up on the wall above the exit door to the showroom. So I of course make the guy get a stepladder and bring the thing down for me. Its an Al Dimeola model, with no price tag. The guy says he thinks its 1,500$. I play it, it is a beatiful guitar I quip. "Yeah, they're pretty functional guitars if that's what you're into" he shoots back, as he finished polishing a fancy shmancy 4,000$ Gibson and placing back in it's spot. I'm thinkin' "...what did that just mean...?" The guy works in a guitar store, and doesn't have anything better to say about the instrument than that? Besides, what better measuring stick to determine a guitar's worth than it's functionality?? So just to be a chode i asks 'im if he has any other ovations. He takes me to another room where a couple more used "O"s are hanging next to other Acoustic-Electric woodies. I pick out a nice Elite T similar to the one I got my son, plug it in and started doing a couple riffs on it. (I believe it was "LIttle Wing"...easy to play, and not your typical "Stairway to Heaven". He turns and says, "they sound great plugged in though..."
brought a little smile to my face... :cool: |
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Location: south east Michigan | G.D. .... That store is right on M-59, right?
I've been there. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I just love messin' with the kids at GC. I never take anything they say as anything other than an uneducated opinion. |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Originally posted by Slipkid:
G.D. .... That store is right on M-59, right?
I've been there. dat's da place! (actually not a bad store...) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | This is interesting; I like Tacomas and O's too, I wonder how we got similar tastes? You must be very intelligent ... but in terms of prosetlyzing, I just do it when playing or when the topic comes up. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My last one went something like this: One of the GC managers (actually over 30) is playing a pretty good rendition of the intro to Crazy on You. I said he plays that very well, but it would sound much better if he played it on an Adamas, like Nancy did. He said, "We don't carry any." I said, "I know. You ought to." That's about it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Geardaddy37,
"I'm thinkin' "...what did that just mean...?"
At that exact moment was when the metamorphosis kicked in and you became one of us.
I call it the "Braveheart moment".
"Every man dies, not every man really lives." |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | I don't know, does that mean I should be congratulated, or killed before I can breed?... ;) |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Originally posted by geardaddy37:
I don't know, does that mean I should be congratulated, or killed before I can breed?... ;) I guess it's in for a penny, in for apound! :) |
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Location: Utah | Geardaddy, just go forth and spread the word. There's no going back from here. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just tried with ikuzus, who posted on the For Sale side. I'm sorry if I scared him off. My evangelical furvor is a bit too strong and misguided sometimes. |
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Location: Chicago | Jeff and I are sort of Ovation Apostles: each gig (plus websites)features Jeff's Elite and my Legend or Adamas through the Bose. Peole DO ask: wow, what sort of guitar is THAT. And we preach!!! W |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Originally posted by FlySig:
Geardaddy, just go forth and spread the word. There's no going back from here. glad you didn't say spread the seed...I've had enough child support for one life thank you!! :eek: |
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