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Yeah, that Ed Roman is a piece of work. The Mosrites he sells aren't the same as
the ones Chris and I have. They're made by a different Japanese company and they
don't have the Ventures logo. I don't know what other differences there are. I'm
guessing they're good quality but you're right, those prices are ridiculous. The
Excellents were also expensive but not ridiculous. They sold for around a grand,
the next model up was around 1400- and the sidejack was just under 3G's.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: supertwangreverb
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:29 AM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Mosrites
Someone's got some spare cash laying around :)
Our old obese drummer had a excellent 65 and it sounded great.
Couldn't put heavy strings on it tho, and man, the neck was so
thin! I thought if I could play a Jaguar I'd be able to play
anything (What a good debate that would be, "Jaguar vs Mosrite's
playability")
I was in Vegas last May and had to stop off at Ed Romans, what a fat
idiot, anyway he had the sidejacks, and the regular Mosrite models.
I think the side jack was around 4 grand and the regular was
$2500.00. No Japanese reissue is worth that.
Bill
--- In , "Marty Tippens"
<mctippens@e...> wrote:
> I also have an Excellent as well as the Super Custom '65, the '63
Royal (sidejack), an original '66 Ventures Model XII, and an '89
Tone Chamber. The Tone Chamber can be seen at and the excellent with Jon's
original Mosrite Ventures Model Bass at .
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:35 AM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Mosrites
>
>
>
> We both have the same model. The '65 Excellent. We bought them
> from Michael at My Rare Guitars.com thinking it would be cool
to
> have matching Mosrites. neither of us can play them very well,
and
> sometimes they just don't have the sound you want for the
material
> we're doing. someday we might bust them out for a ventures
> tribute. They sure are cool looking guitars.
> I noticed Marty plays Mosrites - what models, year, etc?
>
> --- In , "Marty Tippens"
> <mctippens@e...> wrote:
> > I was also admiring the Mosrites on your site, Chris. It looks
as
> if the other guitarist has an original '65 or is that the
Japanese
> copy they call the Custom '65? Is yours the "Excellent"? All of
> those Japanese models really were very well made. It's a shame
they
> had their hand slapped and had to stop production. I also agree
> about the difficult necks, but they have a great tone.
> > -Marty
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Chris
> > To:
> > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:05 PM
> > Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Mosrites, was Re: Fender Jaguar
> Baritone/Bass VI finished
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In , Brian Neal
<brian@s...>
> wrote:
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > Nice job on the website, BTW.
> >
> > Thanks Brian - I't's getting better all the time.
> > >
> > > Just wanted to ask a follow up question, I see you have a
> Mosrite
> > also.
> > > Is it an original or a copy (if so what kind)? How does it
> compare
> > to
> > > your Jag & Jazzmaster?
> >
> > The Mosrite is a japanese reissue. It says "Mosrite of
> > California" and has the Ventures logo on the headstock.
It's
> really
> > a well built guitar, and has that Mosrite sound. It's hard
to
> > play. Skinny neck, tight string spacing. As I improve as a
> guitar
> > player, I can finally struggle through a few songs with it,
but
> i
> > really have to concentrate. jags and JM's are much
freindlier
> to
> > play I think.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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