Posted on 01/18/2015 11:06:38 PM PST by 867V309
The Ventures, Walk Don't Run!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIuIIqbyEIU
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great tune..
Makes you feel. That makes a good tune.
I suspect like me, you too remember when dirt had a ‘new’ smell to it.
Incidentally, I have a Dick Dale sheet music book. It is a b#tch to try and play that vibrato. I almost have it, but not quite.
“Dick Dale on the Ed Sullivan show”
Dick Dale is Lebanese-American (99% likely Christian Lebanese)....he worked Middle Eastern Oud sounds into his guitar work
BOFFO video!
One of the first songs I learned on the guitar back in the late 50’s.
Here’s a surf tune from a 90’s band that came out of the Bay Area. I used to work with the lead guitarist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X99Ew_5YgAY
Great memories!
Me as well though a bit later. Learning their stuff by ear was and is the best teacher. No vocals, most ‘verses’ repeat at least once, learning the rhythm parts helps with the leads and vice versa, etc.
One old saw says ‘never trust a musician who can’t play Chuck Berry music’ but I would amend that to include the Ventures, at least for guitarists.
WDR was a cover of a cover, which is frequently perilous in a three-on-a-match sense. Jazz legend Johnny Smith wrote it, then Chet Atkins covered it, then the Ventures. But Smith didn’t recognize his song at first upon hearing the Ventures’ version given the changes in arrangement.
It’s hugely ironic that Fender’s sales boom was driven in large part by the Ventures but they took on the Mosrite endorsement deal soon after breaking nationally.
good Monday morning!
next Dick Dale and Stevie Ray Vaughn
Pipeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWw55XhTehg
Mom & Dad bought The Ventures Play Telstar and the Lonely Bull in 1963 when I was 11. I got hooked on music with that album together with the other greats of the era. I have that album on my iPhone and still immensely enjoy it. Those guys were so talented and innovative; plus I loved the idea of not having no-talent “singers” ruin the great music.
Wikipedia says the Ventures came from Tacoma — how could a California surf band be from Tacoma?
Rolling Stone magazine rated the Ventures’ version of “Walk, Don’t Run” as number 82 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. Awesome!
Wow, that is spectacular. Too bad he didn’t go the instrumental route like The Ventures.
Thanks...I thought I detected a bit of Andalusian flavor, but it is Middle Eastern. Remember the intrigue and mystery of the ME back then?
Sort of like the 1959 version of Walk, Don’t Run.
I was 15 when the Ventures rerecorded it in 1964. Still like that version, especially the pick riffs.
The very first tune I learned when I started playing the guitar.
Yes it was much better back then!!!
Great post.
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