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Post by jackorion on Jun 29, 2020 13:58:12 GMT
This is the one you've all been waiting for!
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Post by fatfingerjohn on Jun 29, 2020 15:02:20 GMT
Very interesting video and guitar. I'd love to have a go with it! But isn't it just ugly! I can't see me getting comfortable with it either and for the older person like me I think it would pull too much on the upper arms and shoulders after just a short while. Perhaps with a well-fitted sitting strap it might help? But I'd still like to have a go with it but think I'd be spending 2k differently.
(And the 12er bit couldn't possibly play as nicely as my Auden 12er! Just ask Ged!)
Thanks for reviewing this, good one.
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Post by ocarolan on Jun 30, 2020 8:12:33 GMT
Great review, Ben. Definitely an instrument for stage use I reckon! There aren't too many Eagles tribute bands though...
Keith
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Post by martinrowe on Jun 30, 2020 8:50:42 GMT
Pity it's not a double necked acoustic flying V
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Post by brianr2 on Jun 30, 2020 9:41:20 GMT
Excellent review of a weird and wonderful guitar. But as you said, it’s not the same without leather trousers which would definitely help lower the tone.
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Post by colins on Jun 30, 2020 14:10:37 GMT
Very Good, and fair review Ben, I know that Ovations are marmite guitars, but they are good as you say for plugged in gigging. Just don't damage it as they are uneconomic pigs to repair due to the way they are put together.
One of my old guitar mates Geoff Bradford always plays an ovation, we just couldn't wean him off of it. By the way when he was asked by Brian Jones if he wanted to join a band he was setting up, said no as he didn't want to go commercial, so Keith Richards got the job instead. Good decision!
From a documentary in the late 80s.
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Post by thewanderer on Jun 30, 2020 20:08:19 GMT
Very interesting video and guitar. I'd love to have a go with it! But isn't it just ugly! I can't see me getting comfortable with it either and for the older person like me I think it would pull too much on the upper arms and shoulders after just a short while. Perhaps with a well-fitted sitting strap it might help? But I'd still like to have a go with it but think I'd be spending 2k differently. (And the 12er bit couldn't possibly play as nicely as my Auden 12er! Just ask Ged!) Thanks for reviewing this, good one. Completely agree! Great review, one ugly guitar, and the cost is more than all my other string instruments added together - although admittedly I am a tight arse! I don't have the leather trousers, but do have the hair for it. Yet even with a lottery win, I think I'd stay clear of that, despite my penchant for weird and wonderful instruments.
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Post by ocarolan on Jun 30, 2020 21:58:06 GMT
........... From a documentary in the late 80s. ....and what a great programme that was - I taped it at the time, but have no videotape player now! Thankfully the whole prog is on Youtube! Well worth a watch - quite a few familar faces crop up. I was delighted to see Cliff Aungier on the programme, having seen him in a club in York in the late 60s or early 70s (it was a bit of a blur even then) and not heard of him again until this programme was on the telly. I think Geoff Bradford did some recording with Mark Knopfler (Notting Hillbillies?) which I have on an audiotape somewhere. And I do still have an audiotape player connected up in my shed! Keith
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Post by colins on Jun 30, 2020 22:06:49 GMT
Geoff was a regular at a folk club I used to run in Orpington in the 70s, the late night lock in sessions were where I learned a lot of my blues playing from him, and a lot of unrepeatable stories about the great Cyril Davis.
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Post by andyhowell on Jul 1, 2020 7:19:26 GMT
This is the one you've all been waiting for! An abomination that should be dealt with immediately ;-)
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Post by lavaman on Jul 1, 2020 12:38:55 GMT
Well this is the best de-railed thread we've had for a long time. Hadn't seen Living with the Blues before - excellent.
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