What's the deal with Ovation guitars?

early 90s ovation abuse, a possibly instructive example

http://soundcloud.com/prader-willie/dies-irae

sad true story - we had a dude special order the eastwood breadwinner reissue and then bail, so if anyone wants to see one in the MPLS/STPL, its hanging on my goddamn guitar wall

you don't sound bitter at all

I seem to recall that Joe Strummer would harass Ovations players into giving them up - saying some sort of double-entendre like "you have to have some wood behind your sound"

http://shop.myrareguitars.com/pictures/eastwood-guitars/eastwood-breadwinner-electric-guitar-white-tremelo.jpg

^ when you're not playing you can use it to open enormous bottles of beer

i will begrudgingly admit that it is a pretty comfortable guitar and it sounds good but

my first reaction upon seeing that is if you painted it red and blue, it would be a Super Mario Guitar

it's a shame ergonomic rock never took off

http://nonpretentious.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/cbgb1978.jpg

"What if we developed an acoustic guitar that could reproduce the tinny sound of an amplified acoustic guitar, but without amplification?" God I hate these.

In every college dorm ever