The Most Expensive Mosrite Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Here is an in depth look at Johnny Ramone's 1965 White Mosrite Ventures II Model in a white finish. Ramone made numerous customizations to the guitar as it was his 'main guitar' from 1977-1996. The guitar is now hitting the auction block with bidding expected to end September 25th.
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You keep calling him “Ramone” …man .. fuckin call him JOHNNY
I know right! Its freaking anoying
It's like *just* calling a Fender Jazzmaster a "Fender." It's correct to some degree, but it's not specific enough.
I met The Ramones at Sydney Airport in 1992/3? They were on their way back home after a tour. Johnny was walking up the concourse with a guitar case, so as we passed I asked if that was THE Mosrite. He stopped, saw me in uniform, was kinda bemused and asked if I knew about guitars... Said yep & loved his playing. He laughed, I wished him well... It must have been this guitar he was taking on board. Cool dudes, but as the band walked down the concourse in their black leather, jeans, haircuts, well, folks parted ways for them, lol. My experience from the brief interaction with Johnny and later Joey was totally different. Seemed nice guys. Sad that they are now gone.
Survived 2000 Ramones gigs…
I for one welcome our new indestructible Mosrite overlord.
And I saw 4 of them. HEY HO....LET"S GO!
The body's made out of *Basswood,* too. I don't own the same model, but I own its sister model (which is an earlier version of the Mark V,) and they dent easily. Never unscrew a pickup without holding both the handle and shaft of the screwdriver. At least mine was already beat up when I got it.
I also once scraped my 66 "Carved" model (again, not Johnny's model) against the road. Cheap soft case. It had dents, alright. I undid some of the damage with a soldering iron and damp cloth (steaming the wood back into shape,) but the guitar didn't have its original finish anyway, so I couldn't hurt it much more.
I saw a close up photo of the higher fret registry, higher than fret 15. Johnny's many downstrokes wore away so much wood, that it nearly looks like a scalloped board.
@@101Volts🤩
Saw them in Panama City beach in 94. Couldn’t get in because I was 14 and the show was 17+ so myself and several other younger whippersnappers hopped over the beach fence and watched a bit from between the wood slats. Johnny and Joey stepped offstage for a minute and a bouncer saw us catching a free show. He yelled for another security guard to get us and just as we were to be ejected Johnny said “no, man, they’re with me!” And we watched the test from the side of the stage. Was a pretty epic moment. They are legends for a reason.
How about a security guard-less concert? That would be my dream
@@nicolea2839 been to a Converge show that was pretty much free for all. Their shows were known to be the last wherever it was due to the melee that would ensue. Truly life altering events.
Johnny's White 1965 Mosrite Ventures II "Slab Body" model sold for $750,000 on September 25, 2021 plus an auction charge; making it $937,500.
The single most beautiful girl I had ever seen moved to my high school in Huntington Beach, CA. in 1979, my junior year. The only guy in the school that ever got a date with her had tickets to a Ramones show. She came to school that Friday dressed for the show! Leopard skin print lycra body suit. I, for one, will never forget that day. For that place in time, the Ramones trumped everything.
The greatest guitarist of all times !
Saw them and this guitar on Feb. 4, 1978 at a radio station promotion "Catch a Rising Star" for $1.00
..and it ended up selling for over 900,000 USD. Incredible.
I couldn't believe it was sold for less than one million. If I was rich....,
It's a bit ironic that this specific Mosrite model is for sale at such a price point. The whole reason why you rarely see these models for sale is, they were discontinued within a few months in 1965. They only were made from May to Early August or so, and with very low numbers. Probably fewer than 100 exist, even though the serial numbers go up to at least B0149. This was the cheapest production model that Mosrite ever made from 1963 - 1969.
It doesn't matter which model or which guitar he used. It's valued at that because it was his main guitar for the whole life of the band .
@@aaronwetzel1981 Yes, but that's not my point. I'm also referring to every other guitar of this same model. They don't go for even $15,000 on the open market, but $5,000 isn't unheard of, and $7,000 probably is open game; more than most other 1965 - 1994 Mosrite models that are more ornate and with higher craftsmanship.
Mosrite _really_ didn't like the model; the few times the originals came in for warranty work, they just replaced it with the other cheap solid body; the later one used the same "Ventures II" name for a while, then it was re-named to be "the Ventures Mark V model."
When Mosrite got those Slab models in for warranty work, once they replaced it with the other model, then they'd either throw away or recycle the original Slab into a a slide guitar (the Mosrite Mel-o-bar) or they'd use the parts for other models.
I'm speculating on part of the last bit, but it's not far off, knowing how thrifty Mosrite could be.
@@101Volts semie didn't like the design because he thought it looked too cheap, he was talked into building them because he was told that he needed to make a low-cost entry level instrument.
@@marzsit9833 Yes. Andy Moseley also designed the model. It doesn't make much business sense why they never made a 1 pickup version of this model with a stoptail, though. But again, Semie was far more of a Christian Craftsman than a businessman.
My 64 is #B503. Bought it from the guy from Iron Butterfly.
I saw a guitar world magazine where there was an article stating that Johnny Asked for the price for the guitar.
He asked how much it was and the store clerk said it was 75, and he walked around pretending to see other things at the store.
After a few minutes again he asked for the second time for the price of that guitar he asked a few minutes back and the clerk said that it was 50 bucks.
He got it and bought it saying "I caught him on a mistake">.
Love to have the link to the auction
Respect!!
⚓️AGN!!!😎
Does anyone ever say “this guitar is not solid. It’s easily breakable. I’m afraid of a gust of wind cracking the guitar in half “… No, they don’t. Guitars are all indestructible. They are literally giant pieces of wood reinforced by metal. The only guitars that don’t fit the indestructible category are the engineering failures by Gibson that caused the headstock of every Gibson SG to crack. That’s it… Everything else is indestructible
I've got a few Gibson SG guitar and they are solid with no broken head stocks🤷♀️
@@auntjenifer7774 I’m referring to the “knocked over at a gig” death of those headstocks” I’m assuming you aren’t on the road?
@@shaunkellison1761 On that "headstock break death," you'd probably never see that happen on a Mosrite. The volute is gigantic.
@@101Volts I see the area you are talking about. I was just saying that a lot of people claim that their guitar is “solid “. I’ve only known one that was known as fragile and that’s a Gibson SG at the headstock. I once saw Dave Mustain throw a guitar like a javelin at somebody off stage and it went in like a spear into a PA cabinet. A roadie pulled it out, and gave it back to him once he turned it up and changed a string. I think most guitars on the market are solid.
@@shaunkellison1761 I have a hard time imagining many guitars breaking, too. I did, however, see a Jazz Bass body on eBay after it looked like someone either ran over it with a truck or threw it off a 6 story building all tuned up. The body was missing the wood that would be by and beneath the volume and tone controls, and there was another section of wood which was hairline-split all the way through the body, with very little holding it together.
I also can't imagine all Danelectro models holding up very well, either, in such abuse. They're just a hollow-body; a pine or plywood frame with the front and back made out of Masonite.
Only a certified fool would pay a half million dollars for this guitar.
Or an evil group greedy geniuses. Over selling sets a precedent for future sales. 3 owners of an auction house a few years ago bought Super Mario Bros for several thousands of dollars and after that, old "collector graded" (grading company conviently run by the auction house) retro games skyrocketed. Just a few months ago they did it again, except now its 2 million I think. And three "buyers" bought that as well. :/ theres been a boom as of late in auctions of historic guitars. David Gilmour of pink floyd sold his stratocaster and Billie Joe of green day sold of a ton of gear recently. Kurt Cobains highly publicized Martin guitar perked up alot of ears and has many people wanting to get in on the money. People want to buy high and sell higher, which isn't good investing but whatever.