A Mosrite Bass admirer and other images

[Edward Lopez]

When I joined this forum I didn't own a Mosrite bass but soon, in about 2 weeks, I'll be the proud owner of a '72 beauty. My first post here was in the Mosrite clone section 'cause I had just purchased on eBay a Dillion DMB7504 Electric Bass, a real beauty but not the real thing which I hungered for. I also posted photos from the early '70s of my first Mosrite, a The Ventures Model which was painted hot pink when I bought it for $200 in Music Row (NYC's 48th Street). I stripped it and spray-painted it red and showed a couple of photos of me playing it for friends on my 40th birthday in 1978.

Besides the photos I showed there were others but I had misplaced them. I recently found them and one photo in particular stands out and it is my pleasure to share it/them with you. The first photo is of an admiring young lady who was walking by when I was posing my newly-painted Mosrite on a brownstone's steps. After I took a photo of the bass by itself she asked if she could pose with it and you see the result.



Here I am again, in 1978, treating my friends to either The Beatles' "Birthday" or the Bee Gees' "Night Fever".



Still "young" in L.A. in the early 1980s, posing with my Mosrite Joe Maphis model bass.



Who knew when I bought the 2 bases for approx. $400 that they would now be worth approx. $3,000 or more!

[Veenture]

After I took a photo of the bass by itself she asked if she could pose with it and you see the result.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6044/624 ... f3ca_m.jpg

And I was expecting the sentence to continue with something like "and that's how the lady later became my wife!"

Thank you for sharing your story and cool nostalgic pics! Now hang in there, while your new bass is underway.
When you get it, pictures are compulsory ...of course

[Sarah93003]

Great story! Congratulations on the new bass.

[olrocknroller]

After I took a photo of the bass by itself she asked if she could pose with it and you see the result.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6044/624 ... f3ca_m.jpg

And I was expecting the sentence to continue with something like "and that's how the lady later became my wife!"

Thank you for sharing your story and cool nostalgic pics! Now hang in there, while your new bass is underway.
When you get it, pictures are compulsory ...of course

...and that's what you would have been able to call "Your Bass-ic love affair!"

olrnr

[Haole Jim]

So, where are the images?

Interesting you mentioned a Dillion and commented positively thereon.

Here, after a super-pro setup and some fret leveling, a Dillion VMD-75 demi-clone-oid was "nice enough" to make a real Mo 6 string an asolute necessity. 'Wonder if John Dillion gets a commission on Mosrites sold because of his demi-copies' inspiration?