Bob Bogle, the lead guitarist and co-founder of the instrumental group The Ventures, passed away on Sunday at the age of 75. He had been fighting non-Hodgkin lymphoma for a number of ills and had taken become gravely ill over the weekend.Bogle and Don Wilson formed the group the Impacts in Tacoma, Washingington in the late-50's. They shopped various promos around, but it wasn't until they add...
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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 instr...
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Continuing with our "Doing Horrible Things to The Dark Knight" theme, we present:A Simpsonised version of The Joker!(This is a reduced version of a desktop wallpaper file; it and Simpsonised versions of a lot of other comic characters can be found at the Springfield Punx blog.And, for those into classic anime, i present a group shot of the characters from the Galaxy Express 999 universe:Marge a...
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...I'm checking the Ventures' Best of "*Walk Don't Run*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++++5756&a_id=R++++21205&PersonID=P%20%20%20%20%205756&prodid=CAP93451.2&si=rhino 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 Jack...
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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 gr...
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And so the inevitable online parodies begin...
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| 1 Walk - Don't Run |
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| 2 The McCoy |
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| 3 Perfidia |
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| 4 Lullaby of the Leaves |
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| 5 Blue Moon |
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