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It's not Nokie that stopped the Excellent, he doesn't own the rights to the
Ventures name. It's Don Wilson and his son Tim wantin' to make their Wilson Bros
the only current Ventures models. As an interesting note, Nokie, while still
playing with the Ventures, has never been a full partner in the Ventures . Even
in the '60's he was a hired hand. That was his choice.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: supertwangreverb
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Mosrites
Yes, the Excellent 65 I played was REALLY close to what Ed Roman is
selling these days. I hear Nokie Edwards was rather instrumental in
having the Excellent 65s pulled, and has had his people pester some
ebay sellers. I hear he refers to them, in his accent,
as "contraband!"
Bill
--- In , "Marty Tippens"
<mctippens@e...> wrote:
> 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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