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Alright Shawn,
Thanks for giving me the thumbs up but lets not go crazy and say that the
Ventures released a bunch o' garbage, at least not without balancing the comment
with the fact that they also released much more in the way of good stuff. And
they were indeed an influence on many guitarists. That is not a notion that has
been overblown here...yet.
In the rock and roll era, the artists that sent major droves of kids to the
guitar stores (in the U.S.) came every 5 years and they were: Duane Eddy, The
Ventures, The Beat-less, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Eddie Van Halen, and SRV.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn Martin
To:
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: The Shadows & the Ventures
--- In , "mctippens" <mctippens@e...> wrote:
>
> In case it's not obvious, I am a dyed-in-the-wool Ventures fanatic
> but I think you have hit on one problem as to why the Ventures aren't
> in the RRHOF, Brian. At their worst, they were trend hoppers and very
> much the subjects of their Mother label, Liberty/EMI.
BINGO! Most people, when they think of the Ventures, think of the
same half dozen songs. Nobody takes into account that they put out a
ton of (I'll say it) garbage. They rode the surf wave and are somehow
the first group that the non-educated public thinks of when someone
says surf music (if they don't say the Beach Boys). Very little of
what they did can really be considered surf and most of there albums
were comprised of covers of whatever songs were just in the top 40 by
other bands. I don't have anything against the Ventures. They
influenced a lot of musicians (Mel Taylor influenced me on drums), but
their tangible influence on guitarists as a whole is being way
overblown by a few people here IMHO.
Shawn Martin
I choose my beer based on how fast it'll take out a full grown snail.
Life is short. Play for the music. Wear your heart on your sleeve.
.
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