seafoam_johnny
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 05:37 PM
NO GUITAR COLLECTION IS COMPLETE
WITHOUT A MOSRITE GUITAR
Mosrite is an American guitar manufacturing company, Originally based in Bakersfield, California in 1952. The same year as Fender started. Today it does all of it's American Manufacturing In Las Vegas, NV. Imports are strictly Japanese by Japan's best guitar factory "Tokai". Founded by Semie Moseley, Mosrite guitars were played by many rock and roll and country artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Ventures, The Ramone's Tommy Tedesco, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Davie Allan, Kurt Cobain, Joe Maphis, Buck Owens, Larry Collins, Buck Trent, Nick McCarthy, , the MC5, Iron Butterfly, Dottie Rambo. Arthur Lee Love, Fred Sonic Smith, Ricky Wilson, Kayama Yuzo, and Kevin Shields. Virtually everyone who is anyone has owned a Mosrite at some time in their life.
People like Brian Wilson of The Beachboys, Jimi Page, Duane Allman. Roy Buchanan. Larry Gatton, Rick Springfield, & hundreds of well known musicians (Too many to list) have all been captured by the allure of the Mosrite guitar. During the 60's The Mosrite Fuzzrite was the creme de la creme of distortion devices.
In the 60's a Mosrite was priced at approximately double of a Fender Stratocaster. The cost of all the integral parts of the Mosrite forced the price up. The Vibramute tremolo is far superior to the Bigsby or the less expensive units that most companies like Vox or Rickenbacker were using at the time. Jimi Hendrix had two Mosrites. Jimi would commonly smash and burn his easily replaceable Fenders but the Mosrite's were treasured and well taken care of. The doubleneck from Spanish Castle Magic is today on display at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
Moseley was an innovator and was constantly coming up with improvements and upgrades, the competition simply produced the same products over and over. Due to Moseley's lack of focus the company was never as profitable as his cookie cutter competitors. Semie was a visionary and he liked to get involved with the design and production of new models. Some of his ideas like the Brass Rail model never got off the ground simply because it was too expensive to manufacture, it was not competitive.
A friend of Moseley, a singing preacher named Rev. Ray Boatright, was deeply impressed with Moseley's guitar designs, and put up front money for Moseley to found his guitar company. In gratitude, Moseley named the company by combining his and Boatright's last names. It is generally pronounced "MÖZE-right.
Mosrite guitars were known for innovative design, beautiful engineering, very thin, low-fretted and narrow necks, and extremely hot (high output) pickups. Moseley's design for the Ventures, known as the "Ventures Model" (later known as the "Mark I") was generally considered to be the flagship of the line, but all of his guitars bore his unmistakable touch. Mosrite also produced an unusual double-necked guitar, which was the type favored by Collins and Maphis; this design was also used by Nick Nastos, lead guitar player for Bill Haley & His Comets, during 1968.
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JakeDobner
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Seattle
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 05:44 PM
That is a quite the article. In a bad way.
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WhorehayRFB
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Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 07:09 PM
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Thunderhead
Joined: Apr 11, 2009
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 07:17 PM
Check out the Re-Runs of the old Porter Wagoner Show, his Guitar player used a Pearl White Ventures on the early shows and later a Celebrity. Very cool tone and licks!!!!!
www.myspace.com/thethunderheads
— www.myspace.com/thethunderheads
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JakeDobner
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Seattle
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 10:10 PM
WhorehayRFB
Rick Springfield played a Mosrite?
Kevin Shields I would question as well.
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DennistheMenace
Joined: Dec 29, 2007
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Southeast, Florida
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 10:25 PM
Kevin played a mid 80's Mosrite Celebrity B4 switching
off to a Fender :wink:.
— .......make the Mos' of it,
.....choose the 'rite stuff!
.........owner of 9 Mosrites
proud owner and documented:
1963 "The Ventures" Model s/n# 0038
http://www.vintagerock4.com
www.mosriteforum.com
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JakeDobner
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Seattle
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 10:40 PM
Oh yeah! I read about that in a book I have. They were so bad back then. First couple EPs are painful.
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DennistheMenace
Joined: Dec 29, 2007
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Southeast, Florida
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 11:04 PM
JakeDobner
Oh yeah! I read about that in a book I have. They were so bad back then. First couple EPs are painful.
Oh well...that's beyond the Guitars Control
— .......make the Mos' of it,
.....choose the 'rite stuff!
.........owner of 9 Mosrites
proud owner and documented:
1963 "The Ventures" Model s/n# 0038
http://www.vintagerock4.com
www.mosriteforum.com
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JakeDobner
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Seattle
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 11:05 PM
Except for Line 6 Variax guitars. Those have brains. They make all music sound good. Time to get rid of those archaic Mosrites.
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DennistheMenace
Joined: Dec 29, 2007
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Southeast, Florida
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 11:20 PM
JakeDobner
Except for Line 6 Variax guitars. Those have brains. They make all music sound good. Time to get rid of those archaic Mosrites.
...............??????????...............
— .......make the Mos' of it,
.....choose the 'rite stuff!
.........owner of 9 Mosrites
proud owner and documented:
1963 "The Ventures" Model s/n# 0038
http://www.vintagerock4.com
www.mosriteforum.com
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JakeDobner
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Seattle
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Posted on Jul 08 2009 11:21 PM
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morphball
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Pittsboro, NC
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 07:40 AM
JakeDobner
Except for Line 6 Variax guitars. Those have brains. They make all music sound good. Time to get rid of those archaic Mosrites.
Now you tell me. I've been wasting my time trying to learn how to play.
— Mike
http://www.youtube.com/morphballio
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deepeddy
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Austin, Tejas
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 08:22 AM
Tommy Tedesco was in the Ramones? This guy?
— Ted James
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Brian
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 08:35 AM
"Jimi" Page?
-- The Ramone's Brian Neal
(leave off the comma and suddenly you were in the Ramones. I like it.)
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DennistheMenace
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Southeast, Florida
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 08:44 AM
How did this Thread go from 'Buck Owen's Personal Mosrite'
to Tommy Tedesco was in the Ramones? etc, etc.....??? 
— .......make the Mos' of it,
.....choose the 'rite stuff!
.........owner of 9 Mosrites
proud owner and documented:
1963 "The Ventures" Model s/n# 0038
http://www.vintagerock4.com
www.mosriteforum.com
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 08:59 AM
Um, because the article says "The Ramone's Tommy Tedesco".
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morphball
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Pittsboro, NC
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 09:02 AM
It is generally pronounced "MÖZE-right.
I've been calling them MOSS-rights all this time, but admittedly I talk funny.
— Mike
http://www.youtube.com/morphballio
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DennistheMenace
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Southeast, Florida
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 09:22 AM
Brian
Um, because the article says "The Ramone's Tommy Tedesco".
Brian, I must apologize, you're right  . It's amazing
what happens when a comma has been omitted  .
— .......make the Mos' of it,
.....choose the 'rite stuff!
.........owner of 9 Mosrites
proud owner and documented:
1963 "The Ventures" Model s/n# 0038
http://www.vintagerock4.com
www.mosriteforum.com
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eddiekatcher
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Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 10:29 AM
Who's the Ramones?
ed
— Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jul 09 2009 10:35 AM
DennistheMenace
It's amazing what happens when a comma has been omitted .
The comma was omitted and an apostrophe was added to Ramones. 
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