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R.I.P. Bob Bogle - the Ventures

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Pioneering guitarist Bob Bogle, whose rock-instrumental band the Ventures scored a pair of hits in the 1960s with "Walk, Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O," has died, the group said on Tuesday. He was 75. Bogle died on Sunday of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at a hospital after falling ill at his home in Vancouver, Washington, according to bandmate Don Wilson.


My personal favorite was "Wipe Out!"

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That's sad news! I can remember in Junior High school every kid in the class, at one time or another, pounded out the "Wipe Out" drum solo on their desk!
 
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:frown:

"House of the Rising Sun" at the end of this one!
 
A real innovator, and self-taught musician. Hard to believe he was 75.

I'm sure I literally wore out several Ventures albums from constant playing! "Telstar" was one of my fave songs.

I bet he and old Chet are up there playing a lovely duet, right now . . . :angel:
 
I was always more of a Dick Dale/Chantays man myself, but I've got all the Ventures stuff through about 1967. (There are dozens of Japan-only issues for the truly hard-core Ventures guy, one or two a year through the early 1980s. They were monster-big over there!) There's been a vibrant surf-revival scene since at least 1990, and a lot of this music is still being written, played, and recorded. You just have to go to the right record store.

Thanks to Bob Bogle, the late Link Wray, the ailing Dick Dale, and Duane Eddy for pioneering a great sound.

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BTW, The Surfaris are the group that wrote and originally recorded "Wipe Out" in 1962. The Ventures did a (very good) cover version in 1965.
 
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