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Hi There !

I found a rare photo of the Ventures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6DmtPQv ... re=related

I don't know what the bland guitar that Don Wilson has.

Nokie has got Mosrite.

So sorry for my poor English.

Sincerly yours.


eugene

I don't know, Eugene, but doubtless someone here will identify it.

But I love that piece; it brings back so many memories.

Andy

Don's guitar looks like a Guild. Only a few quality makers ever made a guitar of that body depth and a Florentine cutaway.

The poor old Tornados, eh?

Lots of people in Europe remember Telstar as being by The Shadows, and in the USA it's widely regarded as a Ventures number.

JN

JimN wrote:Don's guitar looks like a Guild. Only a few quality makers ever made a guitar of that body depth and a Florentine cutaway.

The poor old Tornados, eh?

Lots of people in Europe remember Telstar as being by The Shadows, and in the USA it's widely regarded as a Ventures number.

JN

And the Ventures still managed to sound awful!!

The Ventures may have 'sounded awful' (not my words of course), but they did record one of the most popular guitar instrumentals of all time!
Cheers,
JB

John Boyd wrote:The Ventures may have 'sounded awful' (not my words of course), but they did record one of the most popular guitar instrumentals of all time!
Cheers,
JB

Yes, but that wasn't it!

It's quite amusing if you go onto YouTube and watch all these Japanese instrumental bands:

"We will now play Telstar ... by the Ventures."

"We will now play Apache ... by the Ventures."

"We will now play Pipeline ... by the Ventures."

"We will now play House of the Rising Sun ... by the Ventures."

"We will now play Riders In The Sky ... by the Ventures."

The Ventures are so incredibly popular over there that no other instrumental band gets a look in!

JimN wrote:Don's guitar looks like a Guild. Only a few quality makers ever made a guitar of that body depth and a Florentine cutaway.

The poor old Tornados, eh?

Lots of people in Europe remember Telstar as being by The Shadows, and in the USA it's widely regarded as a Ventures number.

JN

Err Excuse me,lets get our facts right.Telstar was a hit for the Tornados not the Shadows.

MickB wrote:

JimN wrote:Don's guitar looks like a Guild. Only a few quality makers ever made a guitar of that body depth and a Florentine cutaway.

The poor old Tornados, eh?

Lots of people in Europe remember Telstar as being by The Shadows, and in the USA it's widely regarded as a Ventures number.

JN

Err Excuse me,lets get our facts right.Telstar was a hit for the Tornados not the Shadows.

And it was a hit for the Tornados, not the Ventures.

Doesn't undermine what I said.

Any way.

I agree jimN. It is Guild.
http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gui ... _CE100.php

Thanks everybody for your help.

I love The Shadows, The Ventures and The Tornados.

So sorry for my poor English.

Sincerly yours.


eugene