I never saw this one before?

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I never saw this one before?

Postby TerryTNM » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:28 am

Just browsing Youtube I came across this Collins Kids video. Looks like their late 20's or so. Here's Larry with a doubleneck that I've never seen before. I'm going to have to ask him about this. - Terry


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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby MWaldorf » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:40 am

Wow, that's one crazy guitar! And a cool song to boot!

It's funny, growing up in New York in the late 70s and 80s, I had a very distinct impression of country/western music being either saccharine dreck from Nashville or hokey plodding songs about lost love and pickup trucks. While I was already aware there's more to it than that before this forum, the 50s/60s Mosrite slingers from the west coast are particularly eye openning. I guess country/western and rock and roll really didn't start to diverge until rock when psychedelic and c&w got into its pickup and drove off. ;)
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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby Veenture » Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:39 pm

wonderful...thanks Terry :P

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Postby 101Volts » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:07 pm

I almost forgot to look at the guitar, I was so blown away by the guitar playing. I've wanted to sing well and play hard guitar parts at the same time but dang, I never thought anything like this could be possible. Sounds good too, No wonder Mosrite's speed frets were loved for this style of music. Anyway, Nice Mosrite guitar. Notice the horn on the upper side is bigger than the lower horn?
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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby mosman » Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:15 pm

Boy I'd love to see this in colour!

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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby Sixstringer » Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:16 pm

I love the Collins Kids. Wanda Jackson too.
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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby Dennisthe Menace » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:34 pm

TerryTNM wrote:Just browsing Youtube I came across this Collins Kids video. Looks like their late 20's or so. Here's Larry with a doubleneck that I've never seen before. I'm going to have to ask him about this. - Terry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3tKS2edhMg

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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby Dnepr » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:36 am


Larry apparently played this thing all over this TV series. The show ran from 64-66/67, depending on who's telling... The singing appears to be live, the playing is not however.
If there were ever a doubleneck that I'd want, it'd be this on for sure!

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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby Veenture » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:46 am

Man, I'm catchin' up with things I missed during this period. TV was yet to come to South Africa then :(

Thanks guys, I consider those "the good times" ;)

(oops, that was off topic...)

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Re: I never saw this one before?

Postby Walter Broes » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:20 pm

MWaldorf wrote:It's funny, growing up in New York in the late 70s and 80s, I had a very distinct impression of country/western music being either saccharine dreck from Nashville or hokey plodding songs about lost love and pickup trucks. While I was already aware there's more to it than that before this forum, the 50s/60s Mosrite slingers from the west coast are particularly eye openning.

A lot of C&W is seriously beautiful and soulful music, and there's actually a lot more hot guitar in Country than in Rock and Roll. There's plenty of bad C&W out there, but that goes for any musical genre - do some digging and find out for yourself, you'll love a lot of what you'll find!

Terry - cool find, and I'd love to hear the story of that one as well!!!


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