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Desert Surfer's Ventures guitars
DesertSurfer:
Atsushi Nakamura's "The Pink Mosrite" posting has inspired me that I would like to share my experience of collecting Ventures and Nokie Edwards guitars. I am so pleased to meet with fan thousands miles away. It is a small world after all.
Although I have been living in the US for 38 years, English is not my mother's language, I do not speak nor write English as perfect as you guys. Especially now all my children have grown up and left home, and I have retired from business, I have less chance practicing my English on daily basis.
Anyway, I will try my best to share my experiences and the joys of collecting these guitars in the next few months. Hope you guys will find them interesting and informative. And I hope my posting will help to attract more viewers (especially Ventures fans from other countries) to this forum.
Hope you guys will find my posting interesting and informative and I hope they will help to attract more viewers (especially Ventures fans from other countries) to this forum.
All the Ventures fans please chime in and share your thoughts and experiences for the band we all love.
Thanks for viewing.
:)
DesertSurfer:
Guitar collection of an old timer
My wife bought me a copy of Picasso's famous painting; "The old man with a guitar" for my birthday 10 years ago. Every time I look at this painting, I always wonder whether the old man was tired, or whether he was simply indulged with his guitar playing?
I love oldies music and vintage guitars. Maybe because I'm an old timer myself. I started collecting guitars about 20 some years ago; and every time I hold one of my beloved guitars in my hands, I feel the same enjoyment. Perhaps like that old man in the picture. As for "the double face" in the picture, maybe this could be the old man's wife yelling: "Hum? another new guitar?...."
I love Surf music, especially the 60's instrumentals by a group called The Ventures. The Ventures were inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in December 2007 (the formal ceremony will be held in New York in March 2008).
The sound of the surf guitar is different and unique - you either love it or hate it. I just love it! I used to play Ventures surf hits when I was in my teens and still love to play them 40 years later. As you will see from my collection, many of my guitars are the same models used by the Ventures (Fender Jazzmaster, Mosrites, etc.).
One of my biggest guitar heroes is Nokie Edwards (the lead guitarist of The Ventures in the 60's). In 2006, Nokie was ranked 29th best guitarist in the world by Playboy Magazine. Congratulations, Nokie! I am very honored to know him in person, and am also fortunate to have collected a number of his personal guitars.
The red guitar Nokie played in this photo was the HitchHiker Prototype I got from him personally. Nokie used this guitar for local concerts sometimes. HitchHiker guitars are designed and marketed by Nokie. I will talk a little more later about all my HitchHiker guitar collection (Electric, Acoustic and Classical)
Talk soon.
:)
tabalt11:
Desert Surfer- The PHOTOS really add to
the surrounding text. Keep up the good work!
DesertSurfer:
Thanks, Tom for the good words.
"Pictures worth thousand words..."
Vincent
:)
Atsushi Nakamura:
--- Quote from: DesertSurfer on June 05, 2013, 10:18:14 am ---Atsushi Nakamura's "The Pink Mosrite" posting has inspired me that I would like to share my experience of collecting Ventures and Nokie Edwards guitars. I am so pleased to meet with fan thousands miles away. It is a small world after all.
Hope you guys will find them interesting and informative and I hope my posting will help to attract more viewers (especially Ventures fans from other countries) to this forum.
All the Ventures fans please chime in and share your thoughts and experiences for the band we all love.
:)
--- End quote ---
I love Nokie :)
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