More pics from the Guitar Geek Festival...

[Strat-o-rama]

Another great group of pics. I've noticed one particular double neck that was once belonged to "Gino King". Who was he and any interesting notes about that guitar?

[Deke Dickerson]

Happy to answer that question, Strat-O-Rama. Gino King was a hotshot sideman who played guitar for people like Faron Young, Carl Smith, Ray Price, and most notably, Little Jimmy Dickens (he was Little Jimmy's right hand man for about 20 years).

Little Jimmy custom ordered the doubleneck for Gino in about '64 or '65. It's a very unique instrument, never seen another quite like it. The top is birdseye maple with a "racing stripe" of walnut running between the two necks. The back is a bizarre but very cool sunburst that goes from metallic purple to pearl white. In addition it has a 12-string neck a year or two before they started offering 12-string necks on the doubleneck Mosrites.

Gino played the doubleneck for many years with Little Jimmy Dickens, it graced the stage of the Grand Old Opry countless times.

I knew Gino pretty well, he was in a nursing home in LaCrosse, Wisconsin and in pretty bad health. He told me he had been forced to sell the guitar in Colorado back in the 70's, and really regretted it. The doggone thing popped up on ebay and I was able to snag it pretty cheap (the guy on ebay had no idea of its provenance). I brought it up to LaCrosse and "reunited" the guitar with Gino. At this stage Gino was literally one foot in the grave so I left the guitar with Dave Rogers of a local music store up there called Dave's Guitars. Gino had the guitar for about two months and then died, and when he did, Dave sent me the guitar back. So you can tell it has pretty special meaning for me.

I don't have any handy photos of the instrument or Gino's album, but if you go to the first thread I posted on this subject you can see me holding it.

Deke

[Veenture]

Re: Gino King's double neck:
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Deke, if only some guitars could talk…but now you’ve gone and put on a voice (first hand too...) to Gino King’s double neck guitar! Not only knowledgeable but quite fascinating and moving too…
It’s only fitting now that the double neck is once more in your deserving hands…

Thanks for sharing

[Strat-o-rama]

Thanks again, Deke. If you ever get the chance you should take some pics and post a thread about that guitar...between gigging, recording, working on a book, writing a column for Guitar Player, organizing festivals, and producing a DVD...

[leonardblush]

I didn't think Nokie used a side jack for the Live in Japan '65 album. I checked the Ventures book which I've linked here and it says on page 126 they used the pearl white models on the '65 tour. Was Live in Japan '65 recorded at a different time?

http://books.google.com/books?id=8KsyZ0W5hr0C&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=ventures+live+in+japan+same+show+as+beloved+invaders&source=bl&ots=GbWFu6blxU&sig=d-7dBQ75urQGilbLrcR3QqJZt1M&hl=en&ei=tGU2TIb9ONWKnAeJxa2PBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=ventures%20live%20in%20japan%20same%20show%20as%20beloved%20invaders&f=false

[Dennisthe Menace]

I didn't think Nokie used a side jack for the Live in Japan '65 album. I checked the Ventures book which I've linked here and it says on page 126 they used the pearl white models on the '65 tour. Was Live in Japan '65 recorded at a different time?

http://books.google.com/books?id=8KsyZ0W5hr0C&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=ventures+live+in+japan+same+show+as+beloved+invaders&source=bl&ots=GbWFu6blxU&sig=d-7dBQ75urQGilbLrcR3QqJZt1M&hl=en&ei=tGU2TIb9ONWKnAeJxa2PBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=ventures%20live%20in%20japan%20same%20show%20as%20beloved%20invaders&f=false

They did use the Pearl Whites for the "Live in Japan '65" Album. I think you might be confusing
this album with "The Ventures on Stage" which was recorded either very late '64 or early '65.
"The Ventures on Stage" album did have all of them playing the Sunbursts Mo's.

[dubtrub]

I didn't think Nokie used a side jack for the Live in Japan '65 album. I checked the Ventures book which I've linked here and it says on page 126 they used the pearl white models on the '65 tour. Was Live in Japan '65 recorded at a different time?

http://books.google.com/books?id=8KsyZ0W5hr0C&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=ventures+live+in+japan+same+show+as+beloved+invaders&source=bl&ots=GbWFu6blxU&sig=d-7dBQ75urQGilbLrcR3QqJZt1M&hl=en&ei=tGU2TIb9ONWKnAeJxa2PBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=ventures%20live%20in%20japan%20same%20show%20as%20beloved%20invaders&f=false

They did use the Pearl Whites for the "Live in Japan '65" Album. I think you might be confusing
this album with "The Ventures on Stage" which was recorded either very late '64 or early '65.
"The Ventures on Stage" album did have all of them playing the Sunbursts Mo's.

OK, guy's, did I miss something? How in the heck did this topic get resurrected and now discussing what the Ventures played back in 1965?

[eltuce]

I don't know how it got to the Ventures but here's my lame attempt at bringing the subject back. That'd be The Colonel with the double neck I've been lusting after.

[leonardblush]

Sorry guys I have a boring job and I spend hours crusing the internet. I came across this thread and the original post by Deke he states that Garrett's guitar in the picture in the original post is just like the one the Nokie used on the Live in Japan '65 album. I had always thought by the time in '65 when the album was recorded the Ventures were playing the pearl white models. I looked in the Ventures book, which I linked in my first post to this thread where it says they took the pearl white models on tour in '65. I thought maybe Deke, or the rest of you Mosrite fans may have knew something I and didn't.

[Deke Dickerson]

yep, you guys are nerds! ha ha, but we knew that.

Yes, the first Ventures Live in Japan album (which was actually released in Japan first as "The Ventures in Japan") was recorded in January, 1965 in Tokyo. This tour had Nokie playing a sunburst sidejack, Don playing a candy apple red sidejack, and Bob playing a way cool sunburst 2-pickup bass with 3 knobs.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/M1c8l2XRBg4/0.jpg

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mosrite/the-vent ... ures01.JPG

They came back in July, 1965, and that's when they recorded "The Ventures In Japan Vol. 2" live in Tokyo, playing all pearl white '65 models.

Poor quality image here of a CD reissue with both original Japanese albums here:

http://www.missumgs.dk/SirCliffShadows/ ... QRB3VL.jpg

The "Live in Japan '65" CD that came out a few years ago was taken from this July 1965 concert originally released on "Ventures In Japan Vol. 2," with extra unreleased songs that weren't included on the original release of "The Ventures In Japan Vol. 2."

If you click this link you can scroll down and see all the geeky details:

http://tinyurl.com/22w2epf

If you wanna get REALLY geeky, then there is the "Live On Stage Encore" album recorded in Japan '66, and the "Live Again" album recorded in Japan '67, "Tokyo '68" and on and on....they're all great in their own way.....

Deke