# The Ventures **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ventures/214393 "2003-11-20T23:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ventures/214393/1 "2003-11-20T23:41:10Z")
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! Q (Oh shit! 1 More and I’m sunk, right?) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ventures/214393/2 "2003-11-20T23:49:01Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ventures/214393/3 "2003-11-21T00:09:12Z")
I still have the “Walk Don’t Run” album. When I was a kid, I couldn’t get enough of staring at that strutter on the cover. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ventures/214393/4 "2003-11-21T00:36:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ventures/214393/5 "2003-11-21T01:17:42Z")
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.