SUBLIMINAL MOSRITE PERSUATION

[64sunburst]

It immediately became one of my absolute favourites too; in fact the whole album, along with albums “Walk Don’t Run Volume 2” and “The Fabulous Ventures”.

Hey, those are my favorite Venture's albums too, although I would also add "Ventures Au Go Go". You have excellent taste! I'm actually listening to "Ventures Knock Me Out" right now on my iPod.

Since my first love was the Fender Stratocaster –exclusively (!),

I too was a Strat freak for a long time. My user name "64sunburst" refers to my '64 strat that I bought for way cheap back in 1977 or '78 I think. It doesn't get played much these days, but I keep it since it's the only vintage guitar I own. But for awhile in the 80's it was my main guitar.

[Veenture]

64sunburst wrote:
Hey, those are my favorite Venture's albums too, although I would also add "Ventures Au Go Go"

ABSOLUTELY Byron…and more (natch!)

64sunburst wrote:
I'm actually listening to "Ventures Knock Me Out" right now on my iPod.

Think I’m gonna have to give into the same urge as you and give my cd-album version another spin!

Can’t replicate the sound we were talking about earlier on but I’m a very contented man. I’ll keep on tryin’ though.

My stuff at present:
One recently made MIM Fender Stratocaster Daphne Blue W/ maple neck (My son now has my ’73 Sunburst)
One gorgeous Hallmark 60 Custom -Sunburst ("my Mo’ " finally!)
One 1978 Fender Precision Bass -Black W/ maple neck (took it off someone hands two years ago for about 300 Euro's and the deal even included a '76 Ampeg Bass amp B-100, which I sold again last year for 150 euro's leaving me with the Bass costing me only about 100 or so US bucks!
One (modern) Fender Custom Vibrolux Reverb RI amp
One (nineties) Fender Princeton 112 plus (solid state) amp (excellent clean channel; the drive ch. sucks)
One echo machine Amtech AGE Pro (non-tape & non-digital)
One FUZZbrite by Ashbass (like it!)
One Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-808 re-issue
One Barber Tone Press (sustain/compression pedal)

That should be enough for now I should think!

[Haole Jim]

Here, it was kind of weird. Back in the day, Chicago was not a place where a vast variety of instrument brands flourished, especially west coast stuff. Maybe it's because Kalamazoo, MI, Nazareth PA and Brooklyn were relatively close, and Harmony was IN Chicago.

That said, 'was nuts over a Mk I from first seeing one and being obsessed with thew Mosrite era Ventures records. But when time came to get that first good guitar (first ever was a Harmony H78 which looked like a very, very cheesy Jazzmaster sort of), this then-young picker followed the local availability and fell in love with a Gibson Trini Lopez Standard (custom-lite). Think of an ES-335 in blue with diamond sound holes and inlays and six-on a side Firebird style headstock but conventional tuners. Hold your shorts. For then $300.

'Almost bought a Semie in '87, we even talked and exchanged a bit of correspondence. But life took an awful turn and suddenly, for a while, guitars were not at all important.

'Acquired a Dillion VMG-75 in early '06 sort of spontaneously, and it reawakened the desire for a real Mosrite.

'Did not score a real Mosrite until '07. Just having played her a bit ago, was wondering why the wait...but wow, what a reward for persistence!

[Olav]

For me it was Fred 'Sonic' Smith out off the MC5 that planted the Mosrite seed. This was way back when I was maybe twelve years old and never touched a guitar in my life. Listening to the loudest rock'n'roll band I ever heard, they still amaze me!, and their epic 'Kick Out The Jams' album, looking at the sleeve photo's thinking that one guy (Smith) had a real cool guitar, the like I'd never seen. I'm a bit embarrassed to say I convinced myself this must have been the lead guitar, only to learn later on that Wayne Kramer and his Stars'n'Stripes stratocaster were responsible for the loudest most piercing sounds on that record. Years later I fell deeply in love with the shape of the Gibson LesPaul Junior, the doublecut kind is the epitome of coolness wrapped in a 1 pickup guitar. You never forget your first crush though...