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Joined: May 09, 2008 Posts: 1336 Isle of Kent, MD 
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Posted on Jun 04 2024 08:58 AM
Miserloopy, any response? Moss-I know a band named "Ventures" is touring this year, but I believe they are not a "The Ventures" type band. Maybe Miserloopy wants to remain anonymous... Surfcat NEW - MARCH OF THE DEAD SURFERS (Released Oct 17, 2024) - Agent Octopus AGENT OCTOPUS - BANDCAMP Last edited: Jun 04, 2024 09:07:31 |
Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 892 New York City area |
Posted on Jun 04 2024 05:12 PM
Art, |
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Posted on Jun 05 2024 05:10 AM
Miserloopy hasn't registered a real name, is that allowed? Last edited: Jun 05, 2024 05:11:50 |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25542 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Jun 05 2024 10:46 AM
I just saw Deke Dickerson’s Venturesmania at Ran’s house party. That is the only band playing The Ventures songs I care to see/hear. Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Joined: May 09, 2008 Posts: 1336 Isle of Kent, MD
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Posted on Jun 05 2024 12:38 PM
bigtikidude wrote:
I've heard of this before, but not on our site... Venture snobs!!!!! Oh the humanity!!! Surfcat NEW - MARCH OF THE DEAD SURFERS (Released Oct 17, 2024) - Agent Octopus AGENT OCTOPUS - BANDCAMP |
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Posted on Jun 05 2024 04:28 PM
Venturesmania played at the SG101 Convention at Alpine Village in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw-IhKqRQh4&ab_channel=LiveMusicArchive Last edited: Jun 05, 2024 16:40:31 |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25542 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Jun 07 2024 12:17 PM
Always bringing their A game —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Posted on Jun 08 2024 12:54 PM
ElMonstroPorFavor wrote:
Spot on. —THE HYDRONAUTS…Surf Music from the shores of old Cape Cod. |
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Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 892 New York City area |
Posted on Jun 10 2024 05:22 PM
All, Apparently, Leon may have a deal in the works with the new Ventures owners. The "new and exciting changes" aspect of the band probably means Bob, Ian, and Luke are not onboard. Last edited: Jun 10, 2024 17:25:44 |
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Joined: May 09, 2008 Posts: 1336 Isle of Kent, MD
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Posted on Jun 10 2024 08:00 PM
Okay, so didn't your "source" know about this? Maybe a wait and see approach until solid facts are presented by the new group. Maybe a couple former members are in, maybe not, but at least Leon is in now. Here's the post Also with new owner, most likely new promoter/tour agents. New bookings are at "TheVenturesBooking@gmail.com", so Johnny will be glad to know that Fiona has probably "left the building"... but who knows for sure??? Surfcat NEW - MARCH OF THE DEAD SURFERS (Released Oct 17, 2024) - Agent Octopus AGENT OCTOPUS - BANDCAMP Last edited: Jun 10, 2024 20:01:25 |
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 11:21 AM
...and everything's anonymous except Leon's Insta comment... —-- |
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 01:19 PM
Art,
Apparently, you didn't take my suggestion to heart and reflect on what my "reliable sources" were and just jumped to a quite false conclusion. As for "Maybe a couple former members are in, maybe not, but at least Leon is in now." Again, you should think a bit harder on what my "reliable sources" might be, Art. J Mo' Last edited: Jun 11, 2024 13:20:30 |
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Joined: May 09, 2008 Posts: 1336 Isle of Kent, MD
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 01:37 PM
Dude, Either tell us who the source is, or stopped busting on me. I'm not going to waste countless hours on a band that stopped being the same band many years ago. You say the sky is falling for the Ventures, RIP, you mean for the Ventures live, the Ventures band is long gone. Their music will still be available for years to come, unless the new publishing company consists of idiots; which I doubt. —Surfcat NEW - MARCH OF THE DEAD SURFERS (Released Oct 17, 2024) - Agent Octopus AGENT OCTOPUS - BANDCAMP |
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 01:37 PM
If they can't be "The Ventures", I wonder if they can be "Not The Ventures"? Can't say it's false advertising as it's says in the name they're not the Ventures. Maybe they could be stopped for using the Ventures name to their benefit, but still it would be awesome. Also, if anyone is interested, I'm thinking of starting a band called "Not The Beatles"... |
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 02:09 PM
I have no idea who the reliable source might be, but I'm glad we didn't go brigading Fiona based on the hearsay from earlier. — |
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 02:24 PM
Art - my source, again, is quite reliable. Too much effort apparently involved for you in thinking what that most reliable source would be. If you did give it some thought, it would not be "strike one" in your book. It shouldn't take "> countless hours" either - not if you can think. But all OK with me - keep thinking the way you're thinking. For the other doubters in this thread: J Mo' |
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Joined: Mar 17, 2019 Posts: 162 Central PA
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 02:35 PM
When J. Mascis and company wanted to use the name Dinosaur, they were sued by the Bay Area band Dinosaurs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Jr.#Name_change - so they used Dinosaur Jr. So, maybe Not The Ventures would work - I mean, Venturesmania seems to have gone unscathed. Not The Beatles? Not clear to me, but there is Beatlemania. But perhaps they pay a licensing fee. I honestly don't know. I do know that I've seen them quite a large number of times, and they have always been excellent. I already miss the Ventures. One of, if not the, first major rock and roll shows I saw was the Ventures at the Surf Ballroom at Nantasket Beach in Hull MA, south of Boston. Mid-60s, I was real young, I only saw them from a distance near the front door, they 'sort of' let me in. I was just at the beach and Paragoon Park with my family. Made a major impression on me though. When the blues guitar bug hit me hard several years later, I still played Ventures and surf songs, which seemed incongruous to some of the blues guys I hung around with. This kind of music has been a thread in any stuff I've been into for the last 55+ years playing guitar. —The Delverados - surf, punk, trash, twang - Facebook |
Joined: Feb 02, 2008 Posts: 4430 Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 03:43 PM
MelWaldorf wrote:
One of these days I’m going to start a band called Not the Mach III. The beauty of it is, when people hear us they will concur; “that band is definitely not the Mach III”. The artist formerly known as: Synchro When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar. |
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Joined: Sep 02, 2022 Posts: 506 Central VA
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 05:54 PM
JohnnyMosrite wrote:
Unfortunately, you saying it's so doesn't actually make it so. —-- |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25542 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Jun 11 2024 06:18 PM
Do you mean the Mach IV? synchro wrote:
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