Greetings

[c4103]

Hello,

I'm new to the forum and just making my required post. I've been researching Mosrite guitars for some time now and just last week finally purchased a beautiful Kurokumo Super Excellent 65 in sunburst. I absolutely love it!

To give a bit of background, I started getting into music on the drums in 5th grade. I'm 24 now, turning 25 at the end of this month. I was a percussion section band geek, but my dad plays guitar and that also rubbed off on me at a very early age. I played guitar in jazz band in high school as well as percussion in wind ensemble and marching band. Since then I've studied music theory, and audio engineering in college. I've worked with computers since I was very young and that ended up being the field I went into professionally. I try to keep my musical interests personal and not professional, because no matter what you do, if you do it for a living some of the fun is going to be taken out of it.

Anyway, back to guitars. When I was 13, my mom told me she would buy me an electric guitar for my birthday. We went to the music store and I played all of the beginner guitars in the store. I really didn't like the Squire guitars, and ended up getting an ESP LTD-M50. It's a very "metal" looking guitar, and I don't even really play metal but the guitar just felt better to play then the Squires. Since then I've upgraded both the pickups in to with a DiMarzio bridge humbucker and a Seymour Duncan Jazz neck pickup. The guitar still sounds great to this day for a $250 starter guitar. My guitar purchases from college on have been acoustic. I have an Ovation Celebrity that I absolutely love and a Taylor Big Baby that I bought about 4 or 5 months ago.

While I was living in CT after graduating college, I was in an instrumental post-rock band with some buddies of mine called fyrii. Unfortunately things with the band have sort of fallen apart because we've all gone our separate ways geographically, but I haven't slowed down with my music at all. That time period of my life was mostly dedicated to raising my skill on the drum set. I started listening primarily to Japanese post-rock bands, and practiced every day for an hour for 3 years. I now live in an apartment in the city, so I can't have my acoustic drums here but I still have my Roland V-Drums and practice as much as I can. Mostly though, I've been concentrating on my guitar skills lately.

I finally decided that it was time for me to purchase a serious electric guitar, one that I would have for the rest of my life. One of my favorite bands, the band apart (

), inspired me to look into Mosrites. The tone that the lead guitarist gets out of that guitar is simply amazing. For a while I was talking with a collector in Tennessee about purchasing a real vintage Mark V Ventures model, and then shyed away from it because I would most like be spending about $5k. Discouraged, I began looking at Telecasters (my dad has owned one since he was 16, it's what I learned to play on) and other guitars such as PRS. One day, a couple of weeks ago, I was browsing Ebay and came across a mint Kurokumo Super Excellent 65 and immediately fell in love. I immediately knew that this was the guitar for me, and after researching them on this forum I felt like it was a safe enough purchase.

Anyway, I want to thank the people of this board for having such great insight into the world of Mosrite guitars and helping me come to the decision that I did. I got the guitar a couple days ago and have already started making recordings for my album. Thank you so much, and rock on!

- Carey

[dorkrockrecords]

Welcome to the club! The Band Apart actually endorses Fillmore, not Kurokumo, but you're certainly in the ballpark.

Cheers,
Adam

[c4103]

Haha, yea I'm aware that's a Fillmore. If I could have afforded one, I might have got one. I got the Super Excellent for 1700 bucks though, which was exactly the price range I was looking at. I'm not made of money!

[Sarah93003]

Welcome to the forum, Carey.

[c4103]

Thanks Sarah! I've got plenty of good questions to post, just trying to organize my thoughts on them.

[Veenture]

Interesting intro! Welcome Carey. I've never heard of the band apart before but they certainly sound cool...me like da sound of da lead guitar...small wonder, eh?!
Ah, yes...congratulations on snagging a Super Excellent 65!

[Dennisthe Menace]

Very nice Intro Carey! Welcome .

[olrocknroller]

Welcome aboard. Stay on this website for long and you too will become a victim of GAS. (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome) So be forewarned!

[MWaldorf]

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the new guitar.
Mel

[c4103]

Thanks again for the greets everyone. If y'all are interested, you can check out my blog where I post recordings that I make, my music or otherwise: http://c4103productions.blogspot.com. Soon enough, there will be some sweet Mosrite guitar tones up there. I'm trying to concentrate less on recording videos and record a full album now that I've got more than 10 songs written. It could take a while .