Late this afternoon, I learned on NPR that Bob Bogle, the founding lead guitar player from The Ventures, passed away last Sunday. Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Age 75.
As Robert Siegel stated, pretty much every guitar player in my age group was aware of, was influenced by The Ventures. They covered everybody's surf guitar tunes better than the originals. At one point I think I had accumulated something like 15 Ventures albums.
When NPR played part of The Venture's 1960 cover of "Walk, Don't Run" I swear that I could smell a roomful of hot Fender tube amps. Remember that smell? That time?
6L6 power tubes aglow, those amps line the sidewalk that leads to Paradise.
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