Informative Blog of INSTRUMENTAL ROCK Group "THE VENTURES". Over 60th Years of Rock'n Roll !!!! - THE DYNAMIC ROCK GUITAR COMBO FOREVER !
* (Cover photo: 1959 FORD Thunderbird Convertible in Drive-in Cinema).
=> "Drive-in Cinema" resurfaces as an entertainment alternative in a pandemic time.
"THE VENTURES are considered the most influential, best-selling Instrumental Band in ROCK AND ROLL history.
Over 450 (LPs and CDs including compilations) Released Worldwide."
"THE VENTURES have written over 1000 tunes, and recorded over 3000 songs altogether! If they ever decide to play all of the songs that they've ever recorded, it would take almost 5 days - without a break - to play them all."
"While they predated the advent of the terms surf guitar and surf rock, and they do not consider themselves a surf music group, they were a major building block of instrumental guitar-driven music. "Guitar Player", in an article titled "20 Essential Rock Albums", cited elements of their 1960 "Walk, Don't Run - Album" (Dolton Records BLP-2003 (mono) / BST-8003 (stereo)) which presaged the coming surf trend."
"Most instrumental groups of the 1950s and '60s disappeared after one hit, but the longevity of The Ventures, the best-selling instrumental group of all time, demonstrated the enduring appeal of the genre as well as the band's skill in choosing recording material."
"It was the electric guitars that made the impression; that and the unique rhythmic pulse that Wilson and Bogle had developed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, when they tried to make up for the fact that they didn't know any drummers, let alone pianists or sax players. At the time, most record companies wouldn't look at you if you had neither.
- "I played a very percussive rhythm-guitar style", Wilson says: "And Bob used to play with the whammy bar, and once in a white instead of a note he'd hit a chord and give it a little vibrato".
But the most distinctive element of The Ventures sound was that damped, rapidly picked descending glissando, which Japanese call "deke-deke-deke"."
"Through the nuances and characteristics of "THE VENTURES STYLE" in the songs, we can distinguish the unique songs played by them.
This is the "VENTURIZED SOUND". Enjoy !"
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"The Ventures: Stars On Guitars" (Promo)
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Coming soon to VOD and DVD- The Ventures: Stars on Guitars!
"The Ventures are one of the most influential guitar-based bands of their era.” — Rolling Stone
The Ventures have been thrilling music lovers with songs like “Wipe Out,” “Walk Don’t Run,” and “Hawaii 5-0” for over half a century. Started by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle in 1959, the band went from humble beginnings in Tacoma, WA., to worldwide acclaim, culminating as inductees into the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the #1 Bestselling Instrumental Rock and Roll Group of all time.
Now, see the story of the world’s most famous instrumental rock and roll band from those who know them the best: movie stars like Billy Bob Thornton, music legends such as Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Jeff “Skunk” Baxter (Steely Dan), The Surfragettes, Lalo Schifrin (Academy Award winning composer of The Mission Impossible theme), Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive), and John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), and their family. Witness the rise and influence of the electric guitar, the history, and the relevance of the band in pop culture still today, while you rock out to the stellar soundtrack. @Vision Films
* Soundtrack: "Holy Surf!" (M.Trapp) - The Alien Mike E.T. (2020)
In 2001 was released the CD album "60's Rockin' Christmas" by M&I Records - Japan (MYCV-30123).
The Ventures: Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Leon Taylor and Gerry McGee. Guest Artist: Nokie Edwards and David Carr. Producer: Don Wilson, Bob Bogle and Leon Taylor.
In 2002 by Varèse Sarabande Records - USA (302 066 401 2) was released the CD album "The Ventures Christmas Joy".
The Ventures: Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Leon Taylor and Gerry McGee. Guest Artist: Nokie Edwards and David Carr. Producer: Don Wilson, Bob Bogle and Leon Taylor.
* Published May 22, 2017 by Chris Till Gear History - Reverb.com
An interesting story about the little known Mosrite Amplifiers.
Don Wilson of The Ventures
in Japan, 1966.
[... "In 1966, besides Mosrite, The Ventures independently owned an entity called the Mosrite Distributing Company. As Mosrite Distributing Company guaranteed that it would purchase and promptly pay for 100 guitars a month, it served as an essential Mosrite customer.
When Mosrite could not meet its demand for a new large solid-state amp, the Mosrite Distributing Company "hired a missile engineer from Vandenberg Air Force Base." says Sanner. Though not a guitarist, the missile engineer was given a Fender Showman tube amp and given the unfortunate directive of making the same thing with transistors." ...]
Melvin (Mel) Taylor - Drummer (1933, September 24 ~ 1996, August 11)
"21 years ago we lost a legend and a mentor, Mel Taylor. You influenced the world and your legacy will live on for an eternity. You are missed but never forgotten..." Leon Taylor * Mel Taylor biography: http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Mel_Taylor.html
The Ventures - "Lonely Girl" (1965)
The Ventures - "Let There Be Drums" (1963)
Mel Taylor and The Magics - "From Russia With Love" (1966)
Mel Taylor and The Magics - "The Creeper" (The Ventures)
Mel Taylor and The Magics - "Drums A-Go-Go" (1966)
THE VENTURES made their instrumental version and recorded in Single in January 1964 for Japan (Liberty LR-1177): Side A "Diamond Head" and Side B "The House Of The Rising Sun". This same year in October was released on the Album "Walk Don't Run, Vol.2".
In 2012 it was re-released by Sundazed Records in the form of colored Vinyl and CD this album and others in Limited Edition.
This Single "Diamond Head" / "The House Of The Rising Sun" sold more than one million eight hundred and fifty thousand (1.850.000) copies in Japan.
Nancy Bacon, Don Wilson,
Mel Taylor, Nokie Edwards
and Bob Bogle
Nokie Edwards played with his extreme skill in ad lib and used the "FUZZ" effect to play on his guitar Mosrite.
THE VENTURES and THE SURFARIS held in June 2017, the "3 DAYS OF WAVES" mini Tour on the Californian Coast.
They started in San Diego at "Belly Up Surf Music Festival", then at "Don The Beachcomber" in Huntington Beach and finally at "Casa Escobar" in Malibu. In this show of Malibu had the participation of the band THE MALIBOOZ.
The band The Surfaris is famous for creating "Wipeout" and "Surfer Joe" song in 1963. It is currently formed by one of the band's founders Bob Berryhill (guitar) and his family, wife Gene (bass), sons Deven (guitar) and Joel (drums / vocal).
* Watch the message from the members of THE VENTURES group when doing the Californian Coast Tour to the SURF CHANNEL.
* Testimony of the members of the band THE MALIBOOZ who participated in the show held at Casa Escobar in Malibu, CA.
Check out the compact of the show performed at "Don The Beachcomber" by The Surfaris and The Ventures. (The show starts at 3:48 in this video and ends at 32:14).
The Ventures Live at Don The Beachcomber - 2017 - Full
The album (THE) "VENTURES IN SPACE" recorded in October 1963 and released on January 25, 1964 is one of the most famous and memorable of the group. With surrealistic and space music and the incredible cover. It was also the first album in which the MOSRITE guitar was used instead of the traditional FENDER. In this album there was the participation of the musician Red Rhodes with the Pedal Steel Guitar to make the surrealistic effect similar to the "theremin". Nokie, on the other hand, made the other sounds, like a creak, with his guitar. He also used a small box built by Rhodes to control the frequency peaks of the guitar called "COMPRESSOR". All sounds were generated by musical instruments.
THE ROADSTER OF THE COVER...
[ ... In 1964, THE VENTURES, the best selling Instrumental Rock Group of All Time (with over 110 million albums sold worldwide and now inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) introduced their 14th and possibly the most influential album "The Ventures In Space". The best-selling album's alluring cover featured a romantic young couple in a striking white "T-Bucket" parked high on Mulholland Drive overlooking the lights of the vast Los Angeles Basin. It was the prototype sunny Southern California image - but who could have guessed that cool T-Bucket roadster had been constructed a few years earlier across the country near frigid Boston, Massachusetts! ...]
View through Mulholland Drive
Original "builder" Don Spinney
with the "Fred's T-Bucket".
Excerpt from the text "T-BUCKET PLANS" written by "John at TBucketPlans.com"on August 17, 2015, with a bit of history about this fabulous Roadster that prints the album cover. Check out the full text at this link: http://www.tbucketplans.com/fred-steele-roadster-ventures-in-space/
REVERBERATION
Reverberation is a widely used effect in Surf Rock songs. it makes the amplitude of a sound (enhance), different from the "echo" that has the return of the sound. Essential in the rhythm guitarist and leader.
* [The Reverberation
A listener that lies some distance from a sound source will perceive a sound that is actually a combination of direct sound and indirect sound that has been reflected within the boundaries of the listening area. Reflections are referred to as reverberation. "Reverb" can enhance the perceived sound of a source by adding depht, color and liveliness.
"Reverb" can be thought of as consisting of two parts: 1. Early reflections shape the listener's conception of the size of the room; 2. Disorderly reflections convey the vivacity of a room. Imagine that you are inside a large hall and you clap your hands once. the length of time required for the arrival of the first reflections is called the delay time (usually in the order of tens of milliseconds, for example 33ms) and is related to the volume of the room (or distance from the listener's reflecting surfaces). the number and density of reflections increase rapidly over time and become confused as they simultaneously decrease in level until they are no longer audible.]...
[...ELECTRIC-MECHANICAL REVERBERING DEVICES: THE REVERBERATION TANK
Historical use in Musical Instruments
"Hammond B-2 Organ" tone cabinet with reverb.
Laurens Hammond of Illinois popularized the use of artificial reverberating devices through his church organs in the 1940s and 1950s "The early (pre B-3®) Hammond® organs were sold to churches on the principle that organ music is greatly enhanced by reverberation, but the minister's speech in the church is hampered by reverberation. Therefore, churches were designed to be acoustically dead, and the Hammond® organ had to have its own artificial reverberation. Reverberation made its debut in the Fender® line as a separate item, using a spring unit bought from Hammond®, in 1961. It was first incorporated in a Fender® amplifier with the Vibroverb® of 1963 and then spread widely throughout the amp line, just as vibrato/tremolo had before it. ...]
There are currently varieties of digital pedals with spring reverberation simulators.
Below are the demo videos of typical analogic spring reverberators.
(YouTube: Reverb)
(YouTube: Hicadoolas)
SPRING REVERB COMPARING (Rhythm Guitar)
1. Direct No Effector
2. JC-120 Attached
3. BOSS RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay
4. Electro Harmonix Holy Grail
5. DigiTech DIGIVERB Digital Reverb
6. Danelectro Spring King
7. BOSS FRV-1 '63 Fender Reverb
8. DigiTech RV-7 Stereo Reverb
9. strymon blueSky
10. Fender Reverb Box Reissue
# Rhythm Music: Diamond Head
# Amp: Roland JC-120
1.Guitar: Mosrite 1964 Vintage
2. Guitar: Fender Jazzmaster 1966 Vintage
(YouTube: Daisei KATOH)
MESSER CHUPS - "Magneto"
(YouTube: The Open Stage)
* Text previously published in the blog on April 26, 2011. Complemented and updated on May, 13, 2019.
NAMM TEC Awards 2020 - Tribute to DON WILSON (January 18)
* Jeff Skunk Baxter (founding member of Steely Dan and played with the Doobie Brothers also Jimmy Hendrix), Steve Lukather (Toto) and Elliot Easton (The Cars), along with Larry Batiste and the 2Cold Chilibone TEC Band perform a medley of Ventures tunes as a tribute to Don Wilson as he receives NAMM's "Music for Life Award" at the 2020 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA.
* Elliot Easton plays on a Lefty Mosrite Guitar and Steve Lukather and Jeff Baxter play on a Wilson Bros. Guitar "The Ventures Model". All with the finish in "Candy Apple Red". One of the beautiful colors appreciated by Don Wilson and The Ventures.
Don Wilson in 1963 used a Mosrite guitar all in this color while Nokie and Bob used their guitars in the Sunburst color.
* In the Tribute, a special message from the friend Billy Bob Thornton.
Nokie Edwards: The Ventures, Musical Inspirations, Guitars & More.
Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum (YouTube channel) Upload: June 14, 2020.
Backstage interview: January 23, 2005.
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars – Don Wilson, Deleted Scene 2018 Interview (1 of 2)
"Here is Don Wilson, from the documentary feature film The Ventures: Stars on Guitars, in a deleted scene talking about how much The Ventures love playing Fender guitars, as well as mentioning their 1996 Fender signature line. Shot by: Staci Layne Wilson"
Score/Composer: Michael Trapp (this song is called Holy Surf).
* Fender Guitar Japan - Special Limited Edition - The Ventures Model Signature Line (1996)
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars - Bill Ford Deleted Scene
"Here is Bill Ford, former road manager of The Ventures, talking about how he got this one-of-a-kind1962 “Franken-guitar” (Telecaster neck on a Jazzmaster body), which was Nokie’s lead guitar used to record Walk, Don’t Run Vol 2. This story did not make it into the film, but it’s quite interesting! Shot by: Staci Layne Wilson"
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars - 60th Anniversary Fan Shout-Outs from Around the World
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars is a feature documentary film on the #1 instrumental rock group in the world, The Ventures. This is the story of their rise to fame in the 1960s right up to now, as they celebrate their 60th anniversary of playing the best guitar-rock of all time. With over 35 interviewees in the film, we couldn’t possibly run all of their stories in their entirety—so here you will find some of our favorite extended clips (as well as B-roll and more fun stuff; please subscribe to keep up to date). The feature will be released sometime in 2020; watch our Facebook and Instagram (@theventuresmovie) for details. Director: Staci Layne Wilson—Producers: Don Wilson, Tim Wilson, Jill Fairbanks, Lisa S. Johnson, Michael Kaplan
NEW !!! - The Ventures: Stars on Guitars (2020) Official Movie Trailer
- A 2020 feature documentary film on the #1 instrumental rock group in the world, The Ventures.
- This is the story of their rise to fame in the 1960s right up to now, as they celebrate their 60th anniversary of playing the best guitar-rock of all time.
- Featuring: Billy Bob Thornton, Jimmy Page, Josie Cotton, and many more.
- Director: Staci Layne Wilson. Editor: Nina Helene Hirten.
- Music: "Surf's Up" by Michel Perillard (with drum roll from "Atlantic Surfer" by the 9th Wave).
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars - Unofficial Teaser Trailer
" A sneak-peek at the upcoming full-length documentary about the bestselling instrumental rock group in the world, The Ventures!
Directed by Staci Layne Wilson, produced by Don Wilson, Tim Wilson, Jill Fairbanks, and Lisa S. Johnson. "
* Ending theme song: The Ventures - "Ame no Kyoto" (Bob Spalding) from "Here We Go Again" CD album (2018).
This is Rock n Roll TV feat. Tribute to & The Ventures & The Movie 2020 & Songs like Wipe Out
This is Rock n Roll TV A Tribute to The Ventures #1 instrumental group. We will be talking about The Ventures Movie 2020 produced by Staci Layne Wilson & Their Music on Fios 34 Optimum 68 or (outside the Bronx) go to Bronxnet.org hit WATCH & BROMNI 68/34 and enjoy. Songs like Wipe Out, Pipeline, Walk Don't Run and much more... w/ Host Dennis Dion Nardone. This is our50th episode w/ guests James Fracassi, Vic Sabatini & Al Belfiore Just Nuts Band. ENJOY"
"Surf's Up" - (Michel Perillard)(2010) / Surfer Plus Haut live version
"Holy Surf!" - (The Alien Mike E.T.) - "Stars On Guitars" Documentary Score
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I am a lover of all good music.
My father was a pianist and at home we had piano and mandolin.
In the 60s to 70s, when I was a child, my father took me weekly to watch and listen to the Classic Music concerts of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo (Brazil). At that time, we could only enter the theater with sober and classic clothes and leather shoes. -
"A song can simply be played on the notes. But the music played with different intensities in each part, transmits liveliness and feeling in the music. The same music is differentiated and appreciated by others."
WELCOME !!! This is a Informative blog by the Instrumental Rock group "THE VENTURES". This blog was created because there was little information and text about The Ventures outside of Japan. I hope to contribute a little to new discoveries. Thanks for the visit ! RICARDO VENTURES
"Music is the link that unites the life of the spirit with the life of the senses. The melody is the sensitive life of poetry." (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Nikolas & Nina
A Bridge Called Love
It takes us back to brighter years, to happier sunlit days, and to precious moments that will be with us always.
And these fond recollections are treasured in the heart to bring us always close to those from whom we had to part.
There is a bridge of memories from earth to Heaven above… It keeps our dear ones near us It’s the bridge that we call Love.
The first LP album was released in November 1965 by Dolton Records - USA (BLP-2038 and BST-8038) "The Ventures' Christmas Album".
And was later reissued in 2003 by Toshiba-EMI - Japan (TOCP-67276) in CD format with album in Monaural version and Stereo (2-1).
In 2002 by Varèse Sarabande Records - USA (302 066 401 2) was released the CD album "The Ventures Christmas Joy".
