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.
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".
