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To this day I still love surf guitar. I recently picked up "The Best of the Ventures" and although it's a short collection (15 tracks), it's a decent round-up of some of their better songs and covers. Notably, their cover of "Wipeout!" is on the CD, along with perennial favorites like "Hawaii 5-O," "Walk Don't Run" and "Pipeline." The amazing thing about the Ventures is that they were an instrumental band. There were few rock bands that would have even tried making a ... MORE
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It's that time again where an lp/music transports me back in time like a some sort of twilight zone episode. Theres not much i would rather do on a Saturday than listen to music and escape.see right about now I'm in a very awkward place in my life.the place where i chose to face my pain and fears.i would much rather medicate and hide from these.but that only prolongs the inevitable.i used to grab these Ventures lp's out of my Dad's stack of music and was just memorized by ... MORE
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...I'm checking the Ventures' Best of Walk Don't Run while I do a little editing...they were a funky lot, if you can dig on the "surf guitar" sound re-popularized in Pulp Fiction in addition to the title cut there's phatties on it like "Perfidia", "Yellow Jacket", "Spudnik (Surf Rider)" , "Hawaii 5 - 0" and "The 2,000 Pound Bee" ...the only thing missing is "Apache"...
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I dug this out of a bin at the Goodwill. Classic Surf Guitar Liner Notes: Here is another venture into the unique and distinctive world of sound created by The Ventures. Once again the talented young menwho were responsible for the hit Walk-Don't Run,treat the listener to the imaginative, unusual sounds which started them on the road to stardom. This is a new collection of tunes which serve to accent the tallents of Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Nokie Edwards and Howie Johnso... MORE
