I just love how crazy the Japanese are for the Ventures. I'm not sure if there's any artistic value in fifty guitars playing the same song at the same time, but it sure looks awesome!
This is from the Ventures 50th Anniversary Special that aired in (where else?) Japan on NHK last last month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDzN8DDpuU
Pipeline comes on after a few minutes of discussion by the hosts. Fifty is just my rough estimate.
More clips from that show, which is as slick as any American TV network production:
The Ventures play Walk Don't Run Medley (WDR, Perfidia, Lullabye of the Leaves, Diamond Head and Pipeline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2JWBfuHO8k (this may be the one posted earlier in this forum)
Yuko Nagisa joins the Ventures to sing "Kyoto No Koi":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efsXxAGddg
Some cool clips of the Ventures arrival and set up for a concert, with interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zFPAgQGB8
Not from that program, but a cool little curiosity: a TV commercial for tickets to the Ventures summer 2009 tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SjVf0GvHOU