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Neal Moser is a California-based luthier.
He began his career with guitars in 1964. He has worked on the instruments of many musicians including guitars belonging to Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Stills, David Crosby and many more.
He came to the attention of Bernardo Rico in 1974. At this time he modified his present electronic design to accommodate B.C. Rich guitars. While working as an independent contractor with B.C. Rich Neal designed the B.C. Rich "RICH BICH" which became popular and is still being built. Shortly after leaving B.C. Rich he designed what is now known as the Virgin Guitar for Class Axe in New Jersey, who had acquired B.C. Rich by this time.
After leaving B.C. Rich in 1985, Neal met Lee Garver and agreed to join forces with Lee. Lee Garver owns GMW Guitar Works. For over 10 years Neal, Lee and Dan created Moser Guitars which were shown at the NAMM Show in Los Angeles from 1986-1998. At that time Neal Moser retired.
He came out of retirement to start the Moser Custom Shop, owned by his wife Earlleen Lloyd-Moser. They now build guitars designed by Neal Moser, Rodney McGlothlin, Dan Fastuca, Ken Patin (formerly of Yavcon Guitars) and a number of other individual designers.
Website: Moser Custom Shop
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Alex Watson is a luthier originally from Inverness, Scotland who now lives and works in Southern California, USA. Alex has been building guitars for over 30 years and decided that it was time to change from a hobby to a commercial enterprise. As an engineer and a bass player, he has the right kind of background and knowledge to extend the boundaries of guitar building. Alex started building guitars in his late teens. He is also a bass player and former manufacturing engineer, trained in his native country of Scotland. His lifetime as a bass player, gift as an artist, love of music and background in engineering have come together to allow him to craft instruments that combine the needs of the musician with precision engineering attributes that are bringing a new generation of stringed instruments to the industry.
Website: Watson Guitars
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Players using the
KSM Model 358™ Guitar,
KSM FOUNDATION™ Bass
Bridge and other custom guitars
handcrafted by Kevin S. Moore
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Lorrie Morgan made her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry at age 13. She became the youngest singer ever to join the Grand Ole Opry. She had a successful career throughout the 70's and 80's with TV appearances, touring and recording. Her first album released on RCA Records was "Leave the Light" on in 1989.
Lorrie's new album, "I Walk Alone" will be released in 2009. Lorrie's collection of country standards, "A Moment In Time", produced by Wally Wilson will be released in summer 2009.
Website: Lorrie Morgan's website
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Roger Eaton performs
with Joe Diffie. Former gigs included The Barbara Mandrell Show,
The Tanya Tucker Show, and The Vern Gosdin Show. He is currently
appearing with Lorrie Morgan on televised broadcasts from the Grand
Ole Opry.
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With 23 years experience, Sam Cottrell has been a musical sojourner for nearly his entire life. At the age of 13 he began playing in his first band, which lasted till the end of high school, playing popular rock and blues tunes. At 18 a friend invited him into a more challenging situation, playing progressive rock and fusion. From that springboard Sam began to study jazz, classical, rock, country, and Latin. At 23 he joined local Funk/Ska outfit Catfische.
Website: www.swaggertheband.com
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Colleen Lloy, an award-winning singer/songwriter fell in love with the musical city and decided to move to Nashville, TN to pursue her singing and songwriting career in 1999. Like many artists, she has a story of courage and stamina where she quit her job, sold everything she owned and on a wing and a prayer moved to Nashville. It did not take long for the industry to realize this lady has major chemistry and charisma on and off stage. Coined the “chameleon” by many, she proves she has an unusual style of singing able to cover any type of music with ease.
Website: colleenlloy.com Photo: See Colleen's KSM Model 358™ Guitar |
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Ben Stacy grew
up in Brazil and later relocated to Nashville. He has been involved
in freelance projects with Jessa Shown and Lorrie Morgan. He is
also in the Nashville-based band Pleasure Coma.
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Austin
Weyand is a fingerstyle guitarist, composer, and educator whose
influences and training have spanned the styles of classical, jazz,
traditional, and rock. He has performed and recorded for radio and
television.
Website: www.austinweyand.com
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Rich Armentrout, "I’ve
played the escrs-335 custom for that last 30years and though
I’d never find a guitar that could bring out my playing!
Boy was I wrong, I fell in love with the KSM guitar while
producing a Benefit show for Country Ham Festival and Tennessee
Children’s Home in October 2007. Check out some video
caught of me on this great guitar. My influences are Dickey
Betts, Al DeMiola, Alan Holdswoth and many more! Thanks Kevin." Website: Rich's
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R.J. Seamons has been involved with music all of his life, including playing bass in many bands, DJing and working in recording studios. Most recently he can be found using his talents playing his many musical instruments in his own personal studio, Sounds Insane Studios.
E-mail R.J. Seamons
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Greg Downs is a singer/songwriter
from the small town of Smithfield, Utah. Being no stranger
to a stage, Greg has traveled the country in several rock
bands, developing himself as both a guitarist and songwriter.
Website: Greg
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Carl Hart's
early influences came from classical music. He is a guitar connoisseur
and a tube amp aficionado. Lead guitar player for The Fender Benders,
he is also responsible for the band's modified sound gear. Band
members know Carl as "The Mad Tweaker".
Website: Carl's
Fender Benders Bio
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Mark Bell, a native of Denmark,
is an accomplished musician in his own country as well as
abroad. Some of his many performing credits include playing
guitar with the Danish rockabilly band 'The Coronets' and
playing piano with Danish band 'The Radiators'. His musical
inspirations come from punk, alternative and rock. He prefers
a heavy, distorted guitar sound.
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Paul Gephart has played for over
24 years around Utah and beyond, with bands such as Spur of
the Moment and Salty Papercut he has captivated many audiences
with his signature guitar sound.
Website:
Paul's Salty Papercut Bio
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Ken Harker, Expanding knowledge
of American traditional music, and call and response improvisations.
Currently playing ad hoc in the Logan, Utah area.
E-mail Ken Harker
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We would like to thank the early pioneering musicians that endorsed the KSM FOUNDATION™ Bass Bridge
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John “BigPocket“ Hart is a multi-talented master musician, producer, songwriter, arranger and teacher, Philadelphia-native John Hart’s list of credits reads like a who’s who in the world of contemporary music. Names like smooth jazz artist Norman Brown, gospel great Yolanda Adams, renowned guitarist Pat Martino, famed musician Ronnie Laws, neo-soul star Jon B and music legend Gladys Knight are among the literally dozens of artists who have called on John to supply his inimitable and distinctive style as a premier bass player, a style he describes as “BigPocket!” It’s no surprise that he named his own Los Angeles-based company - providing music production, studio consulting and Logic Pro customer support and training - BigPocket Music™.
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Loni Specter is a legendary
musician, promoter, artist and inventor. His musical career
spans more than three decades. He is the producer of Amp Show
and is the inventor of The Lapdancer® Lap Steel Guitar.
Website: Loni
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Jeremy Nivison is an accomplished
bass and guitar player, teacher and mentor for many students,
as well as a performer with many groups such as Orjazm, HK3
and with Mike Christiansen.
Website: Jeremy
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Homer Nivison, bass player
for Simple as Suicide, has been playing shows since 2006 throughout
Utah and Idaho promoting the band's recently recorded demo,
which is currently played on the northern Utah rock station
95.9 KLZX. High-energy performances and love for the music
they play has helped to earn them a following to be reckoned
with.
Website: Simple as Suicide
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PierAntonio Micheli, a transplant
from Italy and owner of the local restaurant 'Le Nonne', performs
regularly with HK3.
Website: Le
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R.J. Seamons has been involved with music all of his life, including playing bass in many bands, DJing and working in recording studios. Most recently he can be found using his talents playing his many musical instruments in his own personal studio, Sounds Insane Studios.
E-mail R.J. Seamons
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