Okay, guitar-freaks, drum-gods: this is your thread!
I saved up my damn allowance to buy their albums in my rock’roll drumming days!
I wish I still had their sexy album covers!
The first band I was ever in was called The Volcanos! We left out the e because it would have changed what we wanted to do: be a band like The Ventures.
Tell me/us all your Ventures stories! You know they are still playing, right? Very popular in Japan, still. I almost had them at one of my high school class reunions, but we could not affird them.
The Ventures rock my socks! How about you?! Tell me your stories, your opinions, whatever about them. I wanna hear/read it!
I love all surf guitar music (and its offshoots, spy and spaghetti western music), so naturally I’m a big Ventures fan. I’m a sax player, but I’m saving up for a Fender Telecaster and a decent amp so I can get that twangy, reverb-drenched sound for myself. I always wanted to play in a band like that.
There is a fantastic surf band called The Volcanos, from Wisconsin, I believe. They have at least two albums: “Surf Quake” and “Finish Line Fever.” Was that you?
I remember back in the 70s, when the Ventures were considered quite passe, they released an album of originals that blew me away. Don’t recall the name – it had to be around 72-74.
I’m a big fan of The Sonics, but I can’t play lead guitar well enough to do Ventures stuff.
Here’s my anecdote: Way before Pulp Fiction (around 1987) I was spinning an alternative club night and an old-timer couple came to the DJ booth and offered me a snort of heroin after I played Pedal Pusher. That drug association has always been there.
