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billyblastoff805 - 11 Apr 2005 23:15:04: Long live the strat rats!!
---- Marty Tippens <> wrote:
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> I'm with Ivan, the Strat is the "most perfect of all instruments".
Around here we also like Rob Woolsey's playing on the strat. R-Dub has attempted
the Jazzmaster but he always comes back to the strat. 
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> The funniest thing is that I have a large handful of Mosrites but it was news
to me when Brian Neil recently mentioned that Mosrites have Gibson length necks.
I always ASSumed they were strat length 'cause the height of the cases are the
same. I think the shorter Mosrite scale has something to do with the fact that
they don't get the Strat snap. The strings will be slinkier on that shorter
scale. This is not to dis' the unique tone of the Mosrite which I do love. 
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> -Marty 
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>   Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Viva California!! 
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>   --- In , "-=Dan Ware=-" 
>   <reverbtank@h...> wrote: 
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>   Dano, an awesome review of an apparently fantastic event!  Thanks
so 
>   much for the detail description, I also greatly appreciate it. 
 
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>   But... 
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>   > *Please don't flame me for my opinions of the Strat. IMHO there
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>   > couple of people who can pull off strat surf and have it sound
 
>   good. Ivan of 
>   > The Madeira and/or The Space Cossacks is one. Why cheat a blues
 
>   band out of 
>   > a guitar? Play a Jag, JM or Mosrite. 
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>   I'm of course honored by your compliment, but as a Strat afficianado,
 
>   I feel I must rise to the defense of that most perfect of all 
>   instruments!  Here's a list of other guys that I think we would
all 
>   agree got a pretty good Strat surf tone: 
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>   First Wave: 
>   Dick Dale 
>   Jim Messina 
>   Brian Carman & Bob Spickard (The Chantays) 
>   Paul Johnson & Eddie Bertrand (the Belairs) 
>   Al Nichol (The Crossfires) 
>   Skip Mercier & Willy Glover (The Pyramids) 
>   Jim Fuller (The Surfaris) 
>   Jim Skiathitis & Theo Penglis (The Atlantics) 
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>   Modern: 
>   John Blair 
>   Gregg Hunt (The Bomboras) 
>   Rip Thrillby (he started using the Jag more in the last year or two,
 
>   but for a long time before that an MIM Strat was his baby) 
>   Eddie Angel 
>   Miles Corbin (The Aqua Velvets) 
>   Michael Sellers (Langhorns) 
>   Shigeo Naki (of course not all the time, but more than
occasionally) 
>   Rick Mills (The Volcanos) - before the Jazzmaster 
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>   I'm sure there are more, those are the only ones I can think of off
 
>   the top of my head.  So, I'd say there are quite a few examples of
a 
>   good Strat surf tone... 
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>   Just had to point this out.  Thanks. 
>   Ivan 
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