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Anybody won a Gear Giveaway?

#23
bound'n'blocked said:
Back in my senior year of high school (1985) a friend of mine and I entered a give away on a TV show called "Friday Night Videos" on like NBC or something. They were giving away a bunch of KISS stuff, like one of Gene
Simmons' basses, Ace Frehley amp, Paul Stanley guitar and Eric Carr's drum set. Ok, I'm sure none of this stuff actually belonged to any of them, but hey, I was 17, ok? Anyway, to enter, just send a postcard with your name, address, weight, height, favorite cake flavor, and SS number, to 5150 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood CA. So my bud Richie and I bought a few dozen packages of post cards and about a hundred stamps, which back then were something like 11 cents, but it was still expensive when you didn't have any money. We figured no one would have sent in more entries than we did, and had already divided up the way we were going to keep the gear. Oh, did I mention there were cables and mics too? We were going start a band! There was no way we were going to lose!

I'm still waiting to hear if I won.

Richie moved about two months later, I don't even know how to contact him if they call me to tell me I've won.

Wait, did I remember to put my phone number on the card? Maybe that's why I haven't heard anything...

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maybe you sent to the wrong address
 
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#30
When MARS Music opened where i lived, my brother dragged me down there with him to see the place. While we were there we signed up for a big grand opening giveaway. I won some kind of guitar amp, i can’t remember what it was, but i gave it to my brother and he traded it for a Dean chrome plated brass body resonator guitar. He’s still got the reso.
 
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#32
Twice, but an electric and an acoustic guitar not a bass.

A Gordon Smith electric in a charity raffle. Presented to me by Steve Howe back in the mid 1990s.
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Then around 2005, a Fylde acoustic in a charity competition. Presented to me by Gordon Giltrap.
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TrevorR said:
Twice, but an electric and an acoustic guitar not a bass.

A Gordon Smith electric in a charity raffle. Presented to me by Steve Howe back in the mid 1990s.
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Then around 2005, a Fylde acoustic in a charity competition. Presented to me by Gordon Giltrap.
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Out of curiosity, is the name on that Gordon Smith on, say, a truss rod cover that could be removed and disappear? I just saw something like that recently with no name on the headstock.
 

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