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 |
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Original "builder" Don Spinney
with the "Fred's T-Bucket".
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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/
More details about T-Bucket in the website forum "H.A.M.B" - JALOPY JOURNAL.COM: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/fred-steeles-white-t-bucket-ventures-album-cover-car.428835/
Source consulted: "Walk-Don't Run The Story of The Ventures" by Del Halterman, 2009.
