Chicago Music Exchange | 1 year ago
Get ready for more adVENTURES into the world of vintage guitar w/ CME! Considered a formidable contender to major brands throughout the Golden Era of electric guitar design, Mosrite guitars like the ones you see here evolved from a collaboration between luthier Semi Moseley and country guitarist Joe Maphis. By the 1960s, pioneering surf rockers like The Ventures chose these high-output “fretless wonders” as their preferred instruments, forging a classic sound that’s reverberated through the decades since!
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More About Mosrite!
Mosrite is an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Founded by Semie Moseley, Mosrite guitars were played by many rock and roll and country artists. Mosrite guitars were known for innovative design, high-quality engineering, very thin, low-fretted and narrow necks (though Mosrite used taller frets and wider necks after the 1960s,) and extremely hot (high output) pickups. Moseley's design for The Ventures, known as "the Ventures model" (later known as the "Mark I") was generally considered to be the flagship of the line. Mosrite also made a small number of acoustic guitars; The Serenade model, and four Balladere models, including one 12 string.
Notable Players of these guitars!
Johnny Ramone (of the Ramones)
Fred "Sonic" Smith (of The MC5)
Dave Alexander (of The Stooges)
Michael Davis of The MC5
Drake Levin (of Paul Revere & The Raiders)
Kurt Cobain (of Nirvana)
Jerry Cantrell (of Alice in Chains)
Davie Allan
Erik Brann (of Iron Butterfly)
Toulouse Engelhardt
Glen Campbell
Brian Causey (of Man or Astro-man?)
Larry Collins (of The Collins Kids)
Lee Dorman (of Iron Butterfly)
Art Greenhaw
Susumu Hirasawa
Johnny & The Hurricanes
Koichi Kawasaki
Yūzō Kayama
Joe Maphis
Efrim Menuck
C.J. Ramone (of Ramones)
Izzy Stradlin
Takeshi Terauchi
The Ventures
Love
Robert Smith (The Cure)
Ricky Wilson (The B-52's)
Kevn Kenney (Drivin N Cryin)
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Songs Played:
Hawaii 5-0 Theme song - The Ventures
Flying Fingers - Joe Maphis
Additional Gear Used:
Fender '65 Reissue Princeton Reverb
Fender Joe Bonamassa '59 High-Powered Tweed Twin
Ampeg Rocket Bass RB-112
Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue Combo
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