Chords for My Ovation Story with the Glen Campbell model - Doyle Dykes (Guitar Poor Series)

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_ _ _ Dole Dykes here and this is my guitar poor series and I'm featuring the Ovation guitar
And you can see the Ovation guitars behind me here on the wall
I've got a couple of Adamas here [F#] also have an Al Demiola model that belongs to Caleb actually
But we're all guitar poor around our house
And so I go back way back with Ovation back to the 70s, but let me tell you a little bit about this [A] guitar
I was in Hawkins, Texas a few days ago
Action Sound went in to see my [G#] buddy Kelly and
_ _ I just walked upstairs.
I wonder if he had any ovations and I see this brown case old Ovation case
I took it down and I'm [E] oh my world and
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ I [E] started playing some Travis stuff, you know Marcel Dadi [C] used to use an Ovation _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Super fast neck an amazing instrument amazing guitar.
[F#] I ran downstairs Kelly.
I have to have this guitar
It's a Glen Campbell model.
I didn't know you had one of these I've had that thing for decades
He said just waiting on you to ask about it and to come and get it and take it home with you
And so I did and now I have a 1979
Glen Campbell model and I'm so proud of that.
I met Glen one time
I was on the Grand Ole Opry and Grandpa Jones was on the same show
We were on TNN on television
_ And the one thing I noticed about Glen and he was very respectful of grandpa and I really appreciated that
He was exactly what I was hoping he would be a great musician.
Just a friendly guy
just loved him and a good [A] brother and _ _
So [D#] I'm so happy to have this guitar _
when I was with grandpa, I
_ Started saving my money.
I always wanted a country artist now
That's the ovation that that is a nylon string and always wanted one of those and so I went to Hugh Glees music
My wife Rita and I went over there and I bought my first
Ovation and I use it for a number of years
love that guitar and I this is one of the first albums that I'd made and _
_ You can see the little me right here playing a _ ukulele that I still have on my wall back here behind me
_ And Les Leverett of the Grand Ole Opry took the photos here
He was the official photographer _ of the Grand Ole Opry here Marty Stewart talking about Les Leverett _ _ and I had my _
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_ country artist _ and I used that guitar for a number of years in fact
_ _ _ Here's a photo of me playing on television television show in Nashville and that would have been the late 70s
and then also _ _ _
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Photo of me with that guitar.
I use it all the time.
Just love that that instrument
And in fact, I have a photo here of Steve Warner
_ _ playing that guitar
In the session of the record that you just saw and the Steve Warner and I go way back
he was on that record Paul Franklin played steel on that record and
_ _ Of all things I think Steve played the bass
_ but we were just good buddies and still are and
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_ Well, this is kind of sad.
Let me tell you what happened now.
Look at the look at the guitar now _
It's cool looking but that's the same guitar.
What happened is I had flown to California and
_ The headstock got busted on it and they fixed it out at a friend of mine's place
Charlie Daniels music
_ But when I got back to Nashville, I asked _
Shot Jackson went over to shot Jack show bud
Show bud [F] musical instrument show bud steel guitars shot was the show and bud buddy Emmons
Everyone went to shot Jackson and I said shot.
Can you help me with my guitar?
Well, we can do anything
I said well you have to paint this
I want you
can you just put my name up here and script and he did and then mother pearl and then across here and
The very guy that did the work actually came up and introduced himself to me at the NAMM show just a few weeks ago and
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Here's another photo that I was on the Grand Ole Opry here playing that that guitar
He also put a cutaway in it
So there was never an ovation cutaway until then from what I understand and he painted it blue
I said well if we're gonna refinish it, can you paint it a different color?
He said what color would you like because it looked like this one look like Glenn Campbell's here and _
_ And I said well
Paint it blue and there I am on the Opry and that would have been in the 80s and there's grandpa Jones behind me
He had invited me to play and so I was on the show and that's me with my blue cutaway _
_ _ _ Ovation and
Sadly enough that guitar was stolen from a church _
Back in the 80s and
_ _ There was a group called the Stallnickers
Stallnicker family that were very popular back then especially in the Baptist churches and
They played ovation guitars and they said well Doyle you should have an endorsement with ovation
You're an ovation guy.
So I don't know anything about that.
And they said well we do and so they introduced me to
_ _ _ David Bergstrom of ovation and back then back then a Bill command was still at the helm and
And I ended up with my first endorsement
_ My first guitar endorsement and it was with ovation and this was dated March the 8th
_ 1982 and they I sent them my albums that I'd made and the one I just showed you here and
another one that I've made prior to that and I sent that to them and
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_ _ explained what had happened and and and I ended up with
With an endorsement and with an Adamas.
It looked a lot like this one behind me
I have an Adamas 12 string here and then also have another wood top Adamas here and _ _
This like I say, this was a my son's guitar.
Like I say, we're guitar poor around here
So this is an Al Demiola model and he loves his ovation _
Guitars and they're they're still making these in New Hartford, Connecticut
[F] Darren Wallace and all those guys up there just good friends and Darren's been there over 30 years.
I think now and
_ Rick Hall's back with the company
_ Chris Lombardi who owns DW drums now owns
Ovation guitars and he said we're gonna continue to make them here and they have a [G] custom shop there and we're making [D] Adamas guitars [A] and other things
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