Gear History - Reverb.com
An interesting story about the little known Mosrite Amplifiers.
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| Don Wilson of The Ventures in Japan, 1966. |
[... "In 1966, besides Mosrite, The Ventures independently owned an entity called the Mosrite Distributing Company. As Mosrite Distributing Company guaranteed that it would purchase and promptly pay for 100 guitars a month, it served as an essential Mosrite customer.
When Mosrite could not meet its demand for a new large solid-state amp, the Mosrite Distributing Company "hired a missile engineer from Vandenberg Air Force Base." says Sanner. Though not a guitarist, the missile engineer was given a Fender Showman tube amp and given the unfortunate directive of making the same thing with transistors." ...]
Check out the full article on the Reverb.com website: https://reverb.com/news/alexander-dumble-the-ventures-and-the-little-known-story-of-mosrite-amplifiers
Mosrite BG-500 and BG-1000 Ventures Model Amplifier & Fuzzrite demonstration
More about Mosrite Award Ventures Model Amplifiers: http://www.planktones.com/PageAward.html
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| Here's a picture of The Ventures using the Mosrite Award Amp in 1967. |