IvanP
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Posted on Dec 17 2016 11:23 AM
Regarding "The Ventures a Go-Go" album, I don't think the Ventures ever recorded a more "surf" track than "A Go-Go Dancer"! Definitely the Ventures in their full-blown 'surf' mode - and they could certainly pull it off when they wanted to!
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Coley
Joined: Dec 08, 2016
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Copenhagen
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Posted on Dec 17 2016 02:42 PM
IvanP wrote:
Regarding "The Ventures a Go-Go" album, I don't think the Ventures ever recorded a more "surf" track than "A Go-Go Dancer"! Definitely the Ventures in their full-blown 'surf' mode - and they could certainly pull it off when they wanted to!
Yes! One of my favourite Ventures tracks and in fact the song that really got me turned on to the Ventures years ago.
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Dec 17 2016 03:15 PM
Man I love that track. I really dig the Looney Tunes version too, which turns up the insanity a notch or two.
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Squid
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Portland, Oregon with Insanitizers
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Posted on Dec 17 2016 03:44 PM
Brian wrote:
...the Looney Tunes version ...
The enormously tight precision of the Ventures' reading is thrilling, even awesome. The lead guitarist of Looney Tunes is right on, but the rhythm guitarist picks late and gives me vertigo.
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Squid
Joined: Aug 22, 2010
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Posted on Dec 17 2016 05:23 PM
My favorite Classic Ventures CD albums are the two below. This "Surfing" CD contains 30 songs. Most are surf guitar songs but some are not (e.g., Walk Don't Run, Perfidia, Hawaii 5-0, Torquay, Penetration, Bulldog).

Several of my individual favorite Ventures' recordings are not on these CDs, but individual songs are a different matter.
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