John Fogerty pays tribute to Don Wilson of The Ventures who passed away on January 22, 2022.
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@staci-layne-wilson2 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. John Fogerty had some wonderful things to say about my dad and The Ventures in the documentary "The Ventures: Stars on Guitars." He's a truly gracious gentleman.
@HAL90072 жыл бұрын
The Ventures were my first musical crush in the mid 60s. Saw them many times over the years. Once, about 1980 in a dive bar in a strip mall in upper NW Washington DC. They played on a small riser stage in front of a picture window -- pedestrians walking down the sidewalk behind them. There were maybe a dozen in the audience, including my three friends who I begged to go with me. I was crushed by the small audience and almost left to avoid embarrassing my friends. But we ordered beers and stayed. Well, they freakin' played their guts out -- as good as I've ever heard them -- all my favorites. They played my request "I Feel Fine." They bantered with the audience. No one there could believe how good they were. After the show, they stayed for 30 minutes chatting us up and signing everything in sight -- coasters, napkins, etc. I have never been around more professional, more considerate musicians -- everyone had a great time. True pros. I am so sorry you lost your dad. Maybe assuaged by the great joy his music brought to millions of us, and in the lifelong impression he left on this fan back in 1980. RIP, Mr. Wilson.
@staci-layne-wilson2 жыл бұрын
@@HAL9007 Thank you! What a cool memory to have. I'm so glad you stayed, too! That was just before their little boost back into popularity thanks to Rodney Bingenheimer playing them on K-ROQ and then the Go-Go's brought their name back into the music zeitgeist with Surfin' and Spyin'. Good times...
@HAL90072 жыл бұрын
@@staci-layne-wilson Thanks for your kind reply. I just finished watching 'Stars on Guitars' -- Absolutely Wonderful. I learned everything I wanted to know, including all that geeky technical and technique stuff. And many cool stories, like Belushi/Akroyd, the Punk connection, the Go-Go's, displayed in the HoF next to Madonna, haha. And the most important thing to me -- they were rock stars without acting like rock stars. The Greatest. Thanks and all the best to you and your family in your difficult time. Heck, who else would thrill an old fan by taking the time to reply to a fan post after their dad died? Your Father raised you right.
@drprick74322 жыл бұрын
So sorry for your loss. What a legend. It's amazing how just a few twangy little musical notes can change your mood...or your life. Thanks to your Dad, may he rest in peace.
@frankyoung27802 жыл бұрын
Been a Ventures fan forever and I will be playing this song tonight...R.I.P. Don.
@dntlss3 ай бұрын
That drummer is punishing those drums, love it.
@Transterra552 жыл бұрын
RIP Don Wilson...Rock on John Fogerty---Does not get any better than the Ventures, who created a sonic snapshot of the early 1960s
@davidmelton209113 күн бұрын
I have always been a fan of the Ventures and was glad to see this tribute to Don Wilson
@syn7072 жыл бұрын
I just found this and learned about Don. Someone else said it here, “You don’t live forever but when it hits…..” Don was the last of the original duo with Bob. I’ll always play The Ventures music. Not just because I learned so much from their records, but because the music was great. I don’t know why, but Don’s passing is bothering me more that the loss of the others. You’ll be missed Don…BIG TIME! God Bless you.
@anthonyxuereb7922 жыл бұрын
The Ventures from the US and the Shadows from the UK, how we loved their music.
@raymccraine24492 жыл бұрын
The Ventures were Great! I remember them vividly. Also, I'm a huge John Fogerty fan since Clearwater Credence. This is REAL Rock Man!!
@patsysummitt86182 жыл бұрын
I Actually STILL have THIS VINYL 33 1/3 ALBUM OF The Ventures!! Love, Love it !!!
@keithessency13375 ай бұрын
So do I. Plus I have a few other Venture albums too. All purchased in the early to mid 60's
@BruceBiazzo-qp1rhАй бұрын
I have a copy of this album, too!! Thanks for posting your comment, from a long-time Ventures fan in New Jersey!
@mountaintyme20003 күн бұрын
Have all my Ventures albums from the Sixties as well. Great music!
@thedevilinthecircuit1414 Жыл бұрын
The Ventures are a big reason why I'm a guitar player today. Thank you Don Wilson!
@RealMark999 Жыл бұрын
John played Walk Don't Run note for note and it sounded as if the Ventures were playing live... RIP Don Wilson.
@deltavee22 жыл бұрын
Some songs are just immortal in their genre. "Walk, Don't Run" is one of those. I've always been a Ventures fan and we even did some of their stuff back in the local band days. No place in instrumentals for me ☹'cuz I was the front man 😎 Poor me, having to struggle a microphone from the car to the stage 😫 😵💫 I'm 75, soon 76 end of summer but I remember it all like it was yesterday. Excellent music. John, our lead guitar had WDR nailed cold the second time he played it but he was like that with all the songs. The rest of us had to haul it to get the music up to speed. A lot of other local bands did it too, but we did it best. All this to say that the Ventures were an giant inspiration in those days and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything, literally. Thank you Don. You live on in our minds but mostly in our hearts.
@vdavis47852 жыл бұрын
The Ventures taught everybody to play guitar. Don Wilson was one of the best rhythm guitarists ever. Very classy of John Fogerty to pay tribute.
@1958indyfan2 жыл бұрын
I just went and found a stereo version of the Ventures "Walk Don't Run", which was GREAT, but will never know how it would have sounded with the extra bass this version provided. Thanks, John Fogerty and Band.
@mikeherron5932 жыл бұрын
The best tribute anyone could recieve. RIP Don and thanks John.
@kellywoodward81602 жыл бұрын
Kenny A. is a beast!
@MsSmitty92 жыл бұрын
Class act that John Fogerty. I’ll never forget when John was inducting The Ventures into the Hall Of Fame. He said , The Ventures recorded 250 Albums. Good Lord , Most if us today just want to SELL 250 Albums. God Bless Don Wilson and The Ventures. 🙏😞
@tomp.62392 жыл бұрын
Got framed, personally signed to me Nokie Edwards autograph hanging prominent in my jam room/mancave here. Been a diehard since early 60s, Perfidia days; I'm old. RIP, Nokie & Don; you guys literally made me buy a guitar, when a youngster; no regrets today!
@davidadams24782 жыл бұрын
Such a great compliment from such a great guy..The Ventures are all deceased now..Don was the last...but thank you John..
@michaelsparks86322 жыл бұрын
The difference between todays music and yesterdays music is yesterdays music will make you smile, cry and yearn for love, todays music is absent those human needs!
@josephlackey68092 жыл бұрын
Ventures were a wonderful group and so much fun. When you saw the waves and surfers the music went right along. Life was so much better with the Ventures
@jeffbinter27102 жыл бұрын
I was there too
@ishrashad2 жыл бұрын
And it was *universal*. All across the globe those wonderful guitar groups were loved and emulated. PIpeline, Telstar, Walk, Don't Run, Apache, Savage.. they echoed through every continent, every city. They made you happy then - they still do now. And the Ventures and Shadows rode that wave into our lives. Sigh. Magical music, indeed. 🎸☮
@sooz94332 жыл бұрын
When someone says instrumental music Walk Don't Run is the song that comes to me. I spent almost every day of the summer at the pool and Walk Don't Run was played about every fifth song to remind us to walk, not Run.😁 Walk Don't Run lives in my heart as Summer, laughter, dancing, friends and just joy in general. R.I.H. Don Wilson... you and the Ventures created so many wonderful songs to remember you by. Soundtrack of my youth 🎼 🖤
@pjriverdale84612 жыл бұрын
Like so many of a certain time, I learned to play guitar in part by hearing the Ventures songs of the early 1960's As a band, they defined what an instrumental Rock and Roll band should sound like. And because they didn't do vocal records, their records were universal across the world. Even though their version of "WDR" is twice removed from the Johnny Smith original, it is their arrangement that people remember over sixty years after it was recorded. RIP Don Wilson, the band can play again in the next life.
@steveglazer49662 жыл бұрын
Sounds great God bless Don Wilson nokie Edwards Bob Bogle and Mel Taylor
@user-rs8ix7pg8q2 жыл бұрын
ドンウィルソンの偉大さを改めて感じれた! ありがとう!
@pb126612 жыл бұрын
That was a nice thing to do. The Ventures were some of my guitar heroes too. RIP to all The Ventures. The music lives on.
@drprick74322 жыл бұрын
I love the Ventures and surf music! Rat Fink Lives!
@clarencevickrot35312 жыл бұрын
and thank you Johnny Smith!
@robnamowicz80732 жыл бұрын
The great Johnny Smith wrote 'Walk Don't Run' and all we little guitar pukes learned it to play at sock hops, teen clubs and high school dances. It was a great song to learn, lots of chords, lots of melody, and lots of wang if you owned a Stratocaster. Big hit, big time fun! Thanks Mr. Fogerty,
@cravinbob2 жыл бұрын
Johnny Smith lived just a few blocks from me. He also had a music store nearby. I went there for my strings and such but was always too intimidated to say much to him. I was a fool. He also would have a cocktail at a tavern I frequented but he was never there when I was, the place was called The Point. I played there one night an impromptu session solo for a girlfriend since it was her birthday. I did well and we all had fun but if Johnny walked in what would I have done? Apologize to him and runaway? His talent was intimidating. Chet didn't even want to join him onstage when Johnny invited him up at a club in Denver!Young people need to watch Johnny Smith on video, he was amazing.
@BluePiano72 жыл бұрын
Thanks for mentioning Johnny Smith. The Ventures of course had the big hit with it, but as you said, the great jazz guitarist Johnny Smith wrote it.
@IanB852 жыл бұрын
Think you meant twang lol
@jonmars95592 жыл бұрын
Nobody lives forever. Still it hits you. Thank you Don Wilson, thank you John Fogerty.
@genez4292 жыл бұрын
... nobody lives on this earth forever. God did not create man to be snuffed out like a candle wick. What kind of mind do you think created all that we see and can know? Even created those who choose to be liars and tell us their is no God?
@jackbrumby18922 жыл бұрын
@@genez429 Which there isn't.
@genez4292 жыл бұрын
@@jackbrumby1892 Of course! If God were real and men were shown it? There will be no one in the Lake of Fire. Makes sense.... if you think about it. Now... try thinking about it. The angels that rebelled saw God. Yet, they still insisted. God knows how to allow for freedom so men believe in Him for only the right reason. If God said, "believe or burn?" That would be Allah speaking, not the God who's Son died on the Cross so all who believe will be saved..... But, then again? Don't bother to think about it. All that ever is is limited to the limits of your own intellect. Nothing exists outside of it.
@chrissygerwitz5202 жыл бұрын
@@genez429 And yours is limited more than most.
@genez4292 жыл бұрын
@@chrissygerwitz520 Ouch! Ouch that hurt! (but we are all going to die.)
@PercyRak Жыл бұрын
Hats off to John C Fogerty for doing full justice with His Band of Men , to Don Williams of The Ventures, by playing the fantastic instrumental, ' Walk Don't Run '.. The Ventures were one of my favorite Bands playing many , many Instrumental hits from my School Days, and still are . 🎶❤️👏👏👏
@candichamberlain Жыл бұрын
I spent the first 7 years of my life in El Cerrito, and my brothers went to junior high with some of the guys who later became CCR. Blue Velvets, Golliwogs, CCR... That John Fogerty was able to perform this stunning tribute to Don Wilson of the Ventures on the night of his passing in January of 2022 still blows my mind. This is El Cerrito badass at its absolute finest, IMHO.
@bonaventura_AKA_ben Жыл бұрын
Man, it’s hard to not get emotional over this. My family and I came to America in 1960, and this was the first music I heard and loved. Surf music wasn’t ‘surf’ music, it WAS music, period.
@willieb37652 жыл бұрын
isnt it abit ironic that 2 of the greatest instrumental bands ever started at about the same time (late '50s) on opposite sides of the Atlantic and their music is still covered and played, The Ventures and The Shadows - - music legends!
@Ridgerunner412 жыл бұрын
Long before "Green River", in my early days of playing in bands, the "surf" music of the Ventures was our cup of tea. This song, "Walk Don't Run"was one of the best.
@allenhonaker41072 жыл бұрын
I still listen to the Ventures and the Shadows to this day
@MrBudhale2 жыл бұрын
“Walk Don’t Run” was the instrumental that made me want to play guitar…. I remember when I finall learned to play it all the way
@ImaCaMan2 жыл бұрын
Made me want to play the drums. Formed a band with my cousins and this was the first song I learned to play.
@tafimutekwe28558 ай бұрын
RIP Don Wilson. Your song Walk Don't Run is one of the greatest instrumental pieces of all time alongside Cuban standard El Manisera.
@RobertWPaine2 жыл бұрын
The Ventures’ Walk Don’t Run and Santo and Johnny’s Sleepwalk were my first favorite fast and slow instrumental records and still are. I regret not contacting your dad just to thank him for the great music the group has given us.
@DougHinVA2 жыл бұрын
Fogerty is no fake... he can sing, play and wrote hit after hit. And a guy who can play a great OLD hit in tempo ...and right is good enough. And I lived the late 1950s onward and heard all the hits on 45RPM records...
@allangow47462 жыл бұрын
John showing some old school respect for Don Wilson. Very nice to see, Springsteen does the same sort of thing.
@lynettekomidar28192 жыл бұрын
This song started many musicians on their journey.
@kentborges51142 жыл бұрын
WOW A SHOW IN TRIBUTE TO DON ! GR8.
@d.g.n93922 жыл бұрын
Really fun to hear. I’m 68, and in 1967-1969 myself and several others made a garage band. I played drums. We actually did pretty well. And played some private parties and several small town sock hops. Lasting memories. John Fogerty and many of those in that period were who we played.
@fredzeller27682 жыл бұрын
If I’m not mistaken, John inducted the Ventures into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. Classy tribute.
@incognito59862 жыл бұрын
I remember listening to a 45 record from RCA with Walk Dont Run on one side and Elvis Jailhouse Rock on the other. It was 1962/63 right before President Kennedy was assassinated, interrupting my favorite cartoon of Felix the Cat on TV. Dad was stationed at Ft Buchanan in Puerto Rico then . Good memories as well as bad…. I wore my brothers record out practically 😁
@anthonybianco86902 жыл бұрын
Thank you to THE VENTURES . Millions strongly influenced by the wonderful music of The Ventures . The dedicated and talented men , and their families , should be extremely proud of the impact, inspiration and gift they shared with the world. Bravo!
@nationaltrails95852 жыл бұрын
My late brother bought their albums. My favorites from his collection, The Ventures' Christmas Album, The Ventures Play the "Batman" Theme, The Wipe Out Album. Remember, they also covered the Hawaii Five-0 theme, #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. The Ventures!
@johnwelch5572 жыл бұрын
I'll chime in as well. Don, Bob, Mel, Nokie, Jerry, Leon. My music heroes. They played many, many genres all to perfection. All rest in peace. May your music live on and on. I know it will.
@JohnSmith-uy7sv2 жыл бұрын
Say what? Eternity will have nothing to do with any of us or what we have done. It will all be about Jesus Christ who died on a cross to save the world from their sins. "WE" all deserve hell and then the lake of fire on judgement day. Ephesians 2:8-9 "for by God's Grace are we saved through Faith, not by works, not that anyone can boast of their Salvation."
@jcbass2u2 жыл бұрын
There wasn't a song or genre that they couldn't play, and most times play em better than the originals. Still love them to this day. Thanks guys.
@rickysherfy39902 жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-uy7sv zzzs
@JohnSmith-uy7sv2 жыл бұрын
@@rickysherfy3990 no sleeping permitted in hell or the lake of fire for eternity. There will be no rest day or night. Only torment forever and ever and ever. 😥😫😖😭
@cameronlewis12182 жыл бұрын
I did not know that Kenny Aronoff was back playing with John Fogerty. He’s the #1 most in demand session drummer in the world… RIP Don Wilson…
@docprocmd2 жыл бұрын
Spot on - great to see Kenny kickin' it with JF again! And respects to Don Wilson's family and his considerable legacy.
@jptwist20002 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Don Wilson. Thanks John Fogerty for tribute.
@DickWrath Жыл бұрын
John Fogerty was born in the Sweet Spot in Post WW2 America. It meant he grew up with Radio in the background, not TV. When TV came along it was mostly Singing Cowboys for kids. He lived through Elvis and The Everly Brothers but was still young enough to appreciate the Beatles and Stones. There will never be another generation like that. It includes David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Elton John, Jackson Browne and loads of others.
@fotog162 жыл бұрын
My condolences, Staci. As you’ve probably heard a thousand times, my early guitar playing was influenced by your dad and the Ventures. To this day, if I happen to be in the presence of another guitar player around my age (I’m 68), the first song we play together is usually by the Ventures, seems like we all have that in common. Your dad and his buddies live on in all of us.
@staci-layne-wilson2 жыл бұрын
Yes, definitely. It's very nice to know that.
@jimbohnenkamp50822 жыл бұрын
Celebrating Don Wilson and all the Ventures. They gave us something we were happy to hear.
@larrybrown39772 жыл бұрын
I'm very sorry to hear of Don Wilson's passing. The Ventures were such an inspiration to me trying to learn the guitar in late 1950's and early 1960's. I only had a beat up Kay acoustic guitar my dear mountain Grandma gave me ,then. A few years ago my three piece band played for my 1961 Everett class reunion in Maryville ,Tennessee. We started off with WALK DON'T RUN ,and I had a 6120 orange Chet Atkins Gretsch guitar to play it on.What a thrill for me. My condolences to Don's family.
@christophergallagher39212 жыл бұрын
69 years old and if it wasn't for the Ventures I probably would have never learned how to play the guitar at age 10. They inspired me so much. Walk Don't Run was the first song I ever learned to play. Thanks so much for your music Ventures!!
@BritIronRebel2 жыл бұрын
Wow man... You took the words right out of my mouth! I too learned Walk Don't Run first and was so proud of myself. It just builds on from there!
@aloberdorf45792 жыл бұрын
Me too....but having had a guitar for over 6.8 decades.....the more I know...the less I know.....and Arthur is not my friend, But my Ventures albums are.
@aloberdorf45792 жыл бұрын
how the hell did this comment end up here...Was made on a tribute video of the Ventures Don Wilson...I guess artificial intelligence is really artificial.
@ronfisher52592 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not, in 1965 they played in my high school gym-still have the B&W photos of them on stage and me getting an autograph from Mel
@christophergallagher39212 жыл бұрын
@@ronfisher5259 That's fantastic!!! Great memorie for you!
@Mosri532 жыл бұрын
John Fogerty, is a gentleman in all the extension of the word paying tribute to Don Wilson, Founder of The Ventures and who passed away on January 22, 2022. I remember him in the Hall of Fame when he had the honor of introducing The Ventures a few years ago, which demonstrated the great feeling of admiration he had for the great No. 1 instrumental music group in the world. Now he chose the best Theme Walk Don't Run in tribute to Don. What a great performance, admirable!
@franktaconelli90952 жыл бұрын
What an American treasure John Fogerty is; this is just great
@raiderjohnthemadbomber86662 жыл бұрын
When I first picked up a guitar the Ventures offered 2 or 3 LPs with a book with the songs on the album. A couple years later I was in their office on Sunset. I grew up in bicycle distance from the Strip. Interesting world.
@allenjones31302 жыл бұрын
I was, and still am, a Ventures fan, and it's so nice for Mr. Fogerty to honor Don Wilson's memory.
@dannychristlieb58132 жыл бұрын
That was the first song i learned ❤🎸
@richardshuman67142 жыл бұрын
5th grade I played this for show and tell.....Played it better then then now after 60 years on the guitar.....thanks for the music Don Wilson and the band, RIP
@bobhess74342 жыл бұрын
amazing tribute
@user-ki6zu3dd5t Жыл бұрын
John is a true legend and a nice humble man. I can't imagine a world without his music. Kenny Aronoff is a killer drummer. They lighted my youth ! Love them both !
@markbrown71032 жыл бұрын
And as for John Frogley I gave him thumbs up all the way what a great guitarist👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🎸🎸☮️✌🏻
@normhubbard84842 жыл бұрын
Loved the Ventures love John Fogarty solo and CCR and the Blue Ridge Rangers keep on rocking John .
@stevemcneill71542 жыл бұрын
Guitar and how is was meant to be played! Classic I'm gonna learn this one now. CHOW!!
@thomasmanning8292 жыл бұрын
I took guitar lessons in the early 1960s and one of the first tunes I learned was Walk Don't Run. I was 13. Thank you Mr. Capin.
@ronwatson49022 жыл бұрын
Ole John plays a little guitar himself. One of the best and everybody loves John Fogerty,a living legend.
@ericdee68022 жыл бұрын
John Fogerty is an awesome guitarist, He really kicked ass back in the CCR days, there is no music genre that he can't haul ass on!!!👍✌️
@MAGAMANPATRIOT2 жыл бұрын
@Eric Dee , to add to the nice things you said about John Fogerty. He is a nice guy too.
@joegongora22002 жыл бұрын
Nice cover version of a 60's instrumental group. It's great that John Fogerty did a live performance of this fast moving song.
@jwa7182 жыл бұрын
Just like John I was absolutely bowled over by Walk, Don't Run, now some 60+ years later---it just does NOT get old! :) I remember annoying people around me to death playing and re-playing the 45, couldn't hear it enough or loud enough. R.I.P Don but know you won't be forgotten by anyone who loves guitars!
@johnking84092 жыл бұрын
Rest in Eternal Reverb, Don Wilson!
@granddad-mv5ef2 жыл бұрын
My first album purchase: "The Ventures in Outer Space". Thinking 1963. Yep, I loved the Ventures.
@kathyallsworth5062 жыл бұрын
Looooove The Ventures. The best surf song ever written. It makes me completely come alive and feel like you can hear every aspect of the beach , the surf , waves crashing to the momentum of the music. It is absolutely perfect. I could listen to his guitar all day every day😍
@ulisesmsr1692 жыл бұрын
Forever The Ventures!!! Thanks Mr. Fogerty!!! 😎👍
@amerocker2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Jim Letourneau! Thank you, John Fogerty band. Thank you, Ventures/Don Wilson!!!
@stewartsnape29362 жыл бұрын
Sad to hear of Don’s passing, the ventures were the all time greatest instrumental group, they were Americas Shadows, nobody could bring out the magic in those guitars like they could
@timhitt95412 жыл бұрын
Loved the Ventures and the Mosrite guitars they played.
@kevinkevin49852 жыл бұрын
Like it or not we're all getting older.
@JohnSmith-uy7sv2 жыл бұрын
and we will all die because of sin. It is our destiny and our payment for our wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
@bryanhenderson88072 жыл бұрын
Excelent tribute Mr. Fogerty.
@jameswitt29812 жыл бұрын
Was a teen when Ventures broke into music world... Thank John well said, well done!
@RichStrickler2 жыл бұрын
Awesome tribute. The Ventures were cool. Nice job John.
@nigelduckworth4062 жыл бұрын
And then there were none. Didn't realise that Bob had gone until just now when I saw this. A legend just like the others and may he RIP. And brilliant of John to pay tribute in this way. I have one of Bob's companys Wilson Guitars and play lots of Ventures numbers and I am so so grateful that Bob and the Ventures gave us such great tunes. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and rightly so for those of us who have been captivated by them for 60 years.
@Zimmy9072 жыл бұрын
Awesome. listening to radio in the day always perked up when the Ventures made an appearance. RIP Mr. Wilson.
@deanmarsh25442 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite record in the day. When ever it came on the radio my brother and I would run to the radio. If upstairs we would trip over each other and my mother would laugh and say listen to the song and walk don't run.
@darrenalmli94652 жыл бұрын
John has always been one of my favorite guitarists
@lauriedooker10312 жыл бұрын
This music influenced scores of stars . Personally I always can hear Del Shannon when I hear Don Wilson’s stuff . 👌🏽
@kashesan2 жыл бұрын
Two of my favorite heroes-John Fogerty and The Ventures!!
@PelvisCashley2 жыл бұрын
Staci, I'm so sorry for your loss.....actually his passing is a tremendous loss for everybody! This particular song is the first one I learned to play.
@vodkaone10532 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard The Ventures, I was hooked. They inspired me to take up the guitar, and now it has been almost 60 years. I can still play Slaughter on 10th Avenue, Telstar, and Walk Don't Run, after all these years. They had many different sounds without all the special electronic equipment of today. They were sadly slipping away, then along came Hawaii Five O, and I immediately recognized that sound.
@2ndhome4712 жыл бұрын
Bravo
@jwcinc122 жыл бұрын
Don Wilson was a great human. There is sure a legacy.
@billthomas562 жыл бұрын
Very cool cover by John Fogerty and his band. We loved the Ventures when we were kids, and almost very rock guitarist I have met talks about being inspired by their great music.
@redflamered2 жыл бұрын
Way to go, John. The Ventures were great.
@eddyyoung532 жыл бұрын
The songs of the Ventures are Immortal. A salute to the departed musicians, Mel Taylor, Bob Boggle, Nokie Edwards, Gerry McGee and Don Wilson.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@tomp.62392 жыл бұрын
Mel Taylor was a monster drummer!
@geezer43382 жыл бұрын
Please remember Howie Johnson who played drums on Ventures first 6 albums. Important part of them.
@roygoodin67432 жыл бұрын
I knew nokie in person great man
@robertweldon79092 жыл бұрын
2/3/2022 Wow, I missed Don's passing. RIP Don Wilson Ah yes the memories. This was The Ventures first hit. It hit the air in the summer of 1959. It was responsible for my becoming interested in rock music and the guitar in general. It was the second Ventures tune I learned to play. The first, you ask, It's another legend tune, "The Two Thousand Pound Bee" The tune that introduced the classic "Surf-in music" sound. Thanks John for bringing back the fond memories of my misspent youth, I was 12. John it would have been even better if had played a Mosrite guitar. ;-)
@robertweldon79092 жыл бұрын
I want to make a correction; Walk Don't Run was the summer of 1960, sorry. My excuse, well it was 62 years ago and my memory is not quite as sharp as it used to be.
@garryconley2 жыл бұрын
I still play that song on my guitar. The Ventures originally got that song from Chet Atkins but they couldn't play Chet's version so they made their own version and became a big hit for them. I have meany albums of the ventures and still love their music.
@williamstroud16492 жыл бұрын
thank you john-- they were my heroes as well-, same as you my friend.