Well, one of the first things I ever bought with my own hard-earned money. I also bought a bunch of fireworks.
I bought the album, not the girl. She looked even better inside the cover.
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I bought the album, not the girl. She looked even better inside the cover.
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Do you remember what year this was, Mike? There are some good songs on that album
Google says 2012, but I know that's not correct - obviously. There's one for sale on eBay that says 1967. I think I still have mine, if the crackheads haven't stolen it out of my outbuilding. Wiki has this interesting bit of trivia about The Ventures:
The Ventures have had an incredible influence on a large number of musicians, both professionals and amateurs. Their instructional album, Play Guitar with the Ventures, was the first such record to chart on the Billboard Top LPs list, peaking at No. 96, and taught thousands of budding guitarists how to play the guitar. George Harrison stated in a Guitar Player interview that he preferred the American guitar sound of the Ventures to British contemporaries. When asked to name the most influential rock guitar solos, Joe Walsh said he would have to include the entire song "Walk, Don't Run" because it changed so many guitar players' lives. John Fogerty, during his introduction of the Ventures at their Hall of Fame induction, said that it "kicked open a whole movement in rock and roll... The sound of it became 'surf music' and the audacity of it empowered guitarists everywhere." Stephen Stills told Ventures guitarist Don Wilson that he learned to play on Ventures records. Jeff Baxter and Gene Simmons were early members of the Ventures Fan Club. Carl Wilson called the Ventures a major influence on his early guitar playing and that the Beach Boys had learned to play all of their songs by ear.
I go to YouTube sometimes and watch some of the videos; those guys have to be gettin' on up there by now. In some of the videos, there's one guitar player who has to set on a stool, not sure if he just preferred to play that way, but seems like I once read he had to sit while playing.
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