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I'll have t'hear that Jeff Beck "Day in the Live". I'll bet it is awesome.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: jacobdobner
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 5:13 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Ventures
I don't think it is the worst Beatles cover ever. The Surf Coasters
version of She Said She Said is so much worse. It is a vocal version.
But the best Beatles instrumental cover ever has to be A Day in the
Life by Jeff Beck.
--- In , "Marty Tippens" <mctippens@e...>
wrote:
> Blasphemy, Jacob! I love that Ventures cover of Strawberry Fields.
If that's the Super Psychedlics album you got at the thrift store,
there's some good Ventures originals on there.
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jacobdobner
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:49 PM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Ventures
>
>
>
> I wasn't saying the Shadows wrote those.
>
> I own The Ventures Play the Classics LP, Telstar LP(or is it named
> Lonely Bull?), The Showtunes album LP(that rules), and a greatest hits
> LP. Then I own a crappy one I bought at a thrift store that has a
> terrible Strawberry Fields Forever cover.
>
> --- In , "supertwangreverb"
> <supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
> >
> > > That should read I prefer the Shadows over the Ventures. And to
> > > clarify the third sentence it should be: The Shadows wrote many
> > more
> > > of their more recognizable songs themselves. Hawaii Five-O,
> > Telstar,
> > > Apache, Sleepwalk.
> >
> > Jacob,
> >
> > You need to get a copy of the Ventures playing "Journey to the
Stars"
> > No version is better than their own "Live in Japan '65."
> >
> > I don't understand. Are you saying the Shadows wrote, Hawaii Five-
> > 0, Telstar, Apache, and Sleepwalk?
> >
> > Wow! I really couldn't compare the Shadows with the Ventures. I
> > like the Shads but the Ventures BLOW em away IMO. Someone once
said
> > on the Fender Forum this of the Shads, "nice try for a bunch of
> > english guys."
> >
> > With all due respect the Ventures versions of, Sleepwalk, Telestar,
> > and Apache aren't as great as the originals, and I personally hate
> > Hawaii 5-0. IMO the Ventures were at their best starting off with
> > their last "Fender" album "Lets Go!" uptil about "Wild Things" in
> > 1966. I really like the Ventures when they used the Mosrite
> > guitars, the Mosrite Fuzzrites, and the organs.
> > For good Ventures albums check out, "the Ventures in Space," "The
> > Ventures: Knock Me Out," "the Ventures Walk Don't Run Vol. 2,"
> > and "the Ventures Live in Japan 1965." I could argue reasons for
> > them to be in the ROHF based just on the "Live in Japan '65."
But I
> > still like their earlier Fender albums that Bob played lead on
too.
> > I just don't like anything with Gerry McGee on it.
> >
> > What the hell were the Shadows doing in the mid '60s? "Rhythm and
> > Greens" "yeah baby ohh ahhh!!!" ????? :)
>
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