Tom T Hall's Guitar
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Thomm Jutz tells us the story behind Tom T Hall's Ovation guitar.
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Tom T. Asked me to fix his old Martin guitar one time when we were at his house. I told him that I was honored that he would ask me to work on his guitar, but he should have someone else with more experience do the work. In his dry comedic way said that he wanted me to fix it because I would be cheaper than s more experienced shops. He laughed and laughed. On another occasion he had a black Martin guitar that Johnny Cash had given him and he asked me if I would like to purchase it. I asked him how much? He replied $250,000.00. I asked him if he would take an out of state check? He busted out laughing and he smiled and said no !!! He is as quite a guy. I got to know Tom and Miss Dixie through Peter Cooper. My wife and I miss all three of them greatly.
Thanks for sharing your story.
A great story worth being told
by oddball.coicidence had flooding drying out records one forgot had wasnt damaged just damp was earl scr.ruggs tge banjo nsn andtom t hall the storeyteller cover photo hes holding the black guitar think.yall are talking about
sorry spelling signal fades at night banjo man and the storyteller cbs records 1978n
Back in the mid 90s I saw TTH sitting in the audience at a bluegrass show in Live oak Florida at the "Spirit of the suwannee music park". He was invited on stage to sing a song and he played Bill Monroe for breakfast I'll never forget that night.
I sat next to TTH on a flight many years ago. We had a very nice conversation. I gave him my business card as I said goodbye. I received a handwritten note and signed photo in the mail a couple weeks later. Such a great memory of a very nice gentleman.
Much of the ovation guitar was born from the aerospace industry, specifically Kaman Helicopters.
The piezo pickup was born out of vibration sensors in helicopter transmissions.
I have a 1981 custom Balladeer I bought new. To this day it still plays amazing. It’s not a Martin, but it is it’s own thing.🎸👌
I have a 1985 narrow-body cutaway with piezo pickup and three band eq with 9 volt on-board battery. At the time noteworthy. ☮
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If they are good enough for Glen Campbell a Al De Miola -, they are good enough! 👍🎸👌
I’ve been playing my Ovation Balladeer since 1973.. Incredible Sound and Neck.. They do have Problems and Cracking..Love’m..Everybody should try one.
Most of the 70s touring artists all played those Ovations. Everybody from Glen Campbell to Pete Townsend. People thought the secret was that horrible plastic back, but it was really in their electronics. They had the first acoustic with a built-in pickup that didn't feedback.
The electronics including powered 3 band eq were built into the guitar for direct patch out
I saw 2 TTH concerts in the states, in Indiana, 1971 and 1985, and had a chat with him at a Greenfield In, RV show about the origins of the recording of Hello We're Lonely. Moved to Australia in 1988 to marry my sweetheart, and 3 times he came here. I did not make any of the shows as none were in Melbourne. And the Aus djs were enamored of all the crap coming out of Hollywood and never mentioned musicians tours and albums coming out. That will be my 1 regret of not seeing him down under. The people in the UK love his music and cover a lot of his recordings that never made airplay in the US.
I still play all the time ,my 1974 !!! I love my Ovation.. “ I remember the year Clayton Delaney died”
TomT was one awesome country artist. I remember watching him on television in the sixties. A great man. 😀✌️
A tremendous talk about Tom T. I was touched by the stories and tone of Tom Jutz's voice as he talked about Mr Hall. It was evident of the quality and depth of their relationship. Even the way he lovingly strummed the guitar he coaxed a very pleasant tone accentuated by respect. As always Otis, this was top drawer. Kyle from AZ🌵
The necks on the 70's Ovation played them self, realy nice.
The guitar was probably at House of Cash. It opened in 1970 and closed in 2003 after he died. His mom Carrie used to work there.
I’ve played that guitar! Was and honor and a privilege.
Just the greatest clip. Otis, you are doing a really wonderful thing with these interviews.
Thank you Mr Jutz for the Ovation overview, but also your words describing TTH, "He was the Best Guy"...found this out while serving in Germany in the early-mid 70's and Tom T would tour over there quite regularly--he loved the GI's, having served in the ARmy and Germany himself. Never heard of him until he appeared at our EM and NCO clubs over there, than never forgot him. Thanks for the reminders of him through the Ovation.
Hey Otis, another great Tom T story, I just returned from Olive Hill where I played in a memorial party for my best buddy. Fred and me picked and grinned together for more than a decade, so one of the songs we did for his service was The ballad of $40 to honor him and Tom. I also thought it was a great way to end on the Wildwood Flower on Tom's guitar....nice....thanks!
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Love me some Tom T. Hall! Another great story Otis…I’m always a sucker for an old guitar tale!!
Thank you Otis and Thomm Jutz, speaking of guitars kept but no one played and songs tucked away, Herman Melville’s short story ‘Billy Budd’ was found in a bread box after he died. So many stories yet to be told. Ovation used a Piezo pickup with a 9 volt battery built-in 3-Band Equalizer
Great interview Otis! I guess my favorite Tom T. Song is Fox on the Run. I remember Glen Campbell, and Mac Davis playing Ovations in the late 60s early 70s.
My wife’s uncle, Richie DellaBernarda, worked as the President of Ovation back then, and gifted my wife an Ovation guitar on her 8th birthday. Now, one of our granddaughters are using it to learn guitar! It has a unique sound to it…
Love the picking at the end sounds authentic soulful!!
Partridge Family was sponsored by Ovation and you see them all over their show. Melissa Etheridge used them (12-string) extensively. Freddie Mercury used a 12 on Crazy Little Thing live.
TH used the standard Flamenco hold.
An Ovation works for me since I use a strap and hold it in the classical guitar position - which is MORE comfortable than a standard back. A nearly vertical neck makes it massively easier to cover multiple frets. I'm 5'6" and ca easily hold a chord from the nut to the 5th fret.
BIG NOTE: I completely changed the bracing and bridges on both my Ovations to fix resonance, range, and sustain. The evenness, stability, and toughness of Ovation suits complex solo fingerpicking, especially jazzy stuff.
Sweet axe, I have several guitars but I gotta tell you. I have a thin cutaway legend I got in the 90's, I love it
Beautiful! Warms the heart of this ol' Kentucky boy...
When I see an Ovation the first thing I think of is the "Wings Over America" tour.
Who played it? Denny Laine, or the young prodigy (can’t recall his name)?
I have a mental picture of Paul playing yesterday on it. Unless it's a made up memory. That happens sometimes.@@melodymakermark
I hear ya. We were all talking the other day about the Junior’s Farm story with Wings, so the band had been on my mind.
Tom T. Hall was great. Really liked his down home country music, guitar and vocals. Thanks for sharing. I have tried a few guitars, but still like my two Martins the best.
I remember when all you saw on stage were Ovations because they were the first guitar that had a useable pickup. I wanted one so bad and couldn't even play a guitar yet. I started learning in the early to mid eighties. I finally got an Ovation about 8 years ago, quickly sold it. To be honest I have no idea why Glen Campbell stuck with Ovations. But this one sounds pretty darn good.
I got a Balladeer in 80 or 81. No electronics. Guy at music store said don’t get the applause. After that they are all the same except for cosmetics. First good guitar ever had. That round back was kind of irritating because it would keep sliding down your knee. I still have it. I restrung in a couple years ago, and I was surprised how good it sounded, and how good the action was after many years of not being played. If it was for that back, I still would play it. The current ones aren’t built with that same round back. They finally learned their lesson but you see them in 1980s and late 70s videos all the time everybody played them it seem like in concerts until people started using the Takamine.
They made them with round backs up into the 2000's as Ovation was trying to keep pushing that technology or was re-pushing the technology only they were attempted to be more comfortable by having better cutaways.
My favorite guitar - The Ovation which does not get much respect due to the cracking. Have an Ovation from The Glen Campbell TV show which is signed by Campbell, Reed, and Hartford.
One of my favorite pictures of TTH is playing that guitar. Always wondered what became of it. Now I know. This video made my day.
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Thank you, Thomm. Thank you, Otis. ❤
Very touching. THANK YOU both!!
Thank you Ottis! Sharing these stories and the amazing people behind them and the people telling them!
That might be the best sounding Ovation I’ve heard. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the demonstration part of this video 😊
Tom T’s most favorite guitar had to be the Martin 00 or 000 12 fret. He brought it out after he retired.
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Love Tom T. Hall
Amazing piece of history,great story👍
As always, great work guys.
Thomm is so awesome!!! ❤
Tom T was a disc jockey at WRON radio in Ronceverte wv which right across the street from the West Virginia state fair the station is still in business today n its my hometown just thought might find it interesting
Hell yeah, hell yeah. What a great outro to a great interview. I've had a 12-string Ovation since my son was born in 1993. When I was doing the occasional gig, I went thru a lot of 12-strings before I found the last one I'll ever need to buy.
Now, 6-strings on the other hand, I just keep buying and have no use at all for a 6-string Ovation, anything but, lol.
I'm just satisfied with what it does. Have to use no heavier than extra light strings though if I want to ensure she stays in tune for long at all.
I just picked up an Applause version of the Ovation real cheap. The pickup is loud without any preamp, but there are no controls on the guitar.
that's pretty cool!
Ovations were the go to stage guitar until Takamine guitars came along with better onboard electronics and you didn't have to deal with the round backs. My buddy has a knock off of an Ovation called an Applause...its a terrible guitar. I have to say, Tom T's Ovation sounded pretty good in that clip.
My brother has a Takamine Guitar but the non-electric version from about 2000--2001 he got from a friend who got a better guitar. It was one of the earlier versions of the Indonesia Acoustic Guitars that actually sounded good and was not a POS like most others that were not electric. He since got a Taylor hollow body TZ5 that is a custom run in 2010's around 2916 or 2017 about then that can do more including the acoustic electric sound, straight acoustic is a fat no due to how thin those guitars are.
It's been said that playing an Ovation is like dancing with a pregnant woman, also their necks are supposed to be Telecaster clones
The Ovation guitar came about because the owner of Sikorsky Helicopters had to learn all about vibrations and distortion and harmonics because helicopters tend to vibrate apart and therefore he studied all that and his other interests in life had to do with music and so he applied all his knowledge towards making a guitar and one of his good friends was Glen Campbell and the rest is history and I thought that maybe you would be interested in that little tid bit
Not ‘Sikorsky Helicopters; the founder of Ovation Guitars, Bill Kamen, had left Sikorsky a long time before to found his own Aeronautical company.
Being an accomplished guitarist himself, and having been displeased about ongoing repairs to his Martin guitar - and especially the response he received to his suggestion’s to improve on some of their ‘approaches’ … so, he decided to found his own guitar-making company. The Adamas guitar became the epitome of Ovation’s innovation excellence .
@@donaldcook3112 my father was the first person to put routers on CNC XYZ machines in the early 80’s late 70’s and tried and tried to sell to the aerospace industry and had no luck but in the meantime he sold a machine to Bill Kaman to make pianos for his company called Courier Pianos which used small strings wound super tight on a sandwiched frame of aluminum with wood in the middle and he could get Steinway tones out of a $1000 piano and he made them in Lenoir NC but it turns out he couldn’t get schools and others to get/buy cheap pianos made with particle board regardless of the superior sound quality so his company went out of business and he told my father he didn’t need or want his CNC router and my father had an excellent contract for the sale of the machine and Bill Kaman could not get out of paying so my father told him that he didn’t care what he with the machine my father would install it in the parking lot if the customer wanted but he just needed his money and was a lot of money cause 250 thousand was a shitload of money in the early 80’s and Bill Kaman said “ screw it I’ll just put it in the Sikorsky plant and he did and my father was finally selling to the aerospace industry and sold 7 machines the next week because all the other companies wanted their own when they found out Sikorsky had one the machine was a Campbell XYZ ROUTER and he sold a 5 axis one to Boeing for 2.7 million and he ended up selling his company to a company called Timesavers but for awhile my father had the best CNC router you could by and he won two separate Challenger awards
The ovation sounded fantastic at the end of the clip. Does anyone know what little tune that was he played, and where to learn it, or something similar, very smooth sound, I want to learn that.
Wildwood Flower. Old Carter Family tune.
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Here's a nod to Guitaro5000, a fantastic musical soul who uses an Ovation guitar for his street busking series: "sing with me...for FREE!" He provides pedestrians the opportunity to sing their favorite songs on the street with the lyrics and his backing, Older whiskey, younger women, wilder horses, more money,
I love wildwood flower