BOOKMARK THIS PAGE - IT WILL CHANGE AND BE ADDED TO OVER TIME
Rob Morritt
left us all behind on Tuesday 17th March 2009
with his wife and his best friend beside him.
Rob's first ever guitar in
1969 aged 13 years
HAGSTROMCANADA.COM |
Rob, left on the Strat in his band "The Young Drunks" circa 1989
Greetings! Nice to see that you created this page in Rob's
memory. Just to provide you with accurate information, the picture is from 1989
and the band was "The Young Drunks". Robbie always wanted to name a band that,
so he did. ;-) Mike Foster, Feb 2011
"Hi David! My birthdate was July 7, 1956. As it happens my 21st birthday fell on the luckiest day of the last century as it was the seventh decade, seventh year, seventh month, seventh day. The band van was broadsided at 60 mph. on a motorway that night, landed on its side in a ditch, and we all walked away from it - I had a bruise. Lucky indeed!" |
HAGSTROMCANADA.COM |
Rob with 'Alvy' the 1972 Red Viking - that now
lives with us in the UK
Official Hagstrom Canada Motto: |
Like many of us, Rob was excited to find out what the new Hagstrom models were
going to be like.
This prototype or USA custom looked very promising. Rob was really pleased to be
in Canada for this preview
trade show, and was treated well by the Jam Industry guys. I remember those
early days too ha-ha!
(Thanks to Kwinn Kastrosky for finding this pic)
A funny and
generous natured guy, Rob was always making things sound positive, even when
they were anything but.
WE WILL MISS YOU, - THE FRIENDSHIP WAS GREAT
A WHILE BEFORE ROB PASSED HE ASKED IF I WOULD LIKE TO DO
SOMETHING TO MAINTAIN HIS ORIGINAL DOMAIN IDEA OF "HAGSTROMCANADA.COM"
HE STARTED IT AT THE BACK END OF 2001(*1) , JUST A FEW MONTHS AFTER HAGSTROM.ORG.UK FIRST PUBLISHED, ...AND WHEN KWINN'S HAGSTROMUSA.COM WAS THE PINNACLE OF ALL THINGS HAGSTROM. NOV 06[*2] THE ISP APPARENTLY SCREWED UP THE DOMAIN RENEWAL AND THE DOMAIN WAS QUICKLY SNAPPED UP BY ONE OF THOSE "SELL-OFF YOUR DOMAIN" TYPE COMPANIES THAT WOULDN'T LET HIM HAVE IT BACK WITHOUT PAYING. LET'S HOPE NOBODY EVER EVER BUYS IT AGAIN... "Heh-Heh" as Rob would say). MEANTIME ROB SUGGESTED WE REGISTER "HAGSTROMCANADA.ORG" SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID FOR A WHILE The Canada section is now a subset of the UK site for reasons of additional cost.
(David Cox, Hagstrom.org.uk)
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All those of you who have been trying to get to Hagstrom
Canada, following a glitch by the ISP host,
and a re-registration of the original site, we will aim to republish some of Rob
Morritt's original project.
Re-Published so far:
HAGSTROMCANADA.COM |
Meantime here's just a tiny taste of what we're missing right now!
We will keep you posted...
The links above are some bits
you'll remember
from Hagstrom Canada back around 2002 - 2004
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NOTES:
[*1 March 09]
See the very first entries
from the Hagstrom Canada Guestbook (which still runs despite many early spam
entries)
[*2 March 09] Thanks Kwinn for your memory or even your
email archive to provide the date!