Mel Taylor. In attendance were original members Don Wilson and Nokie Edwards, late 1960s member John Durrill, current guitarist Bob Spalding, and current drummer Leon Taylor, son of Mel Taylor who, along with Mel Taylor's widow, Fiona, accepted on behalf of the Ventures' late drummer. Don Wilson continues to record with the band, but retired from touring at the end of 2015. Han sido reconocidos frecuentemente por otros guitarristas y músicos como una influencia. Bogle agreed, and rapidly learned the bass parts to all their tunes, allowing Edwards to take lead guitar full-time, although he had played lead previously on several tracks on their first studio sessions/albums. Bob Bogle and Gerry McGee were unable to attend the ceremony.

[15] The group found early success with a string of singles, but quickly became leaders in the album market. The Go-Go's wrote "Surfin' And Spyin'" and dedicated it to the Ventures. Just before the band gained fame with their huge hit "Walk Don't Run" in 1960, Babbitt had to drop out because he was not old enough to play the nightclubs and bars the band was beginning to work in.[2].

[20], Gerry McGee died on October 12, 2019, after collapsing onstage four days earlier in Japan. The theme was recorded by the Ventures, whose version reached No. At the time Johnson quit the Ventures, Bogle and Wilson already knew Mel Taylor, house drummer at The Palomino in North Hollywood (the venue where they would play numerous shows during their resurgence in the 1980s).

General George T. Babbitt (born June 22, 1942)[1] is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (COMAFMC), from 1997 to 2000. According to a January 1966 Billboard Magazine article, the Ventures had five of 1965's top 10 singles in Japan. Bogle owned a Chet Atkins LP, Hi-Fi in Focus, on which he heard the song "Walk, Don't Run". [1], Don Wilson and Bob Bogle first met in 1958, when Bogle was looking to buy a car from a used car dealership in Seattle owned by Wilson's father. Mel Taylor was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 24, 1933, the first child of Grace and Lawrence Taylor. Don Wilson and Bob Bogle first met in 1958, when Bogle was looking to buy a car from a used car dealership in Seattle owned by Wilson's father. Classic lineup of the Ventures in Japan in 1965 (left to right): Don Wilson, The Ventures Play Telstar and the Lonely Bull, List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, "The Ventures: still rocking after 50 years", "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time", "101 Greatest Guitar Songs by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees", "[ The Ventures 벤처스 ] 45th Anniversary (45주년 기념) Interview (720p)", "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, the Ventures", "1998.March 1st.Walk Don't Run with General George Babbitt", Nokie Edwards, the Ventures' influential lead guitarist, dies at 82, "Gerry McGee, Eunice musician who grew to be of "international acclaim" has died", "The Ventures (The Swinging Sixties) | The Ventures | Surf music, Music, 60s music", "The Ventures A Go-Go In The New Millenium", "The Ventures - Influence on other artists", "Petition to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Attachment 2 - Comments by Rock & Roll Stars About the Influence of The Ventures", "Petition to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Attachment 1 - The Formal Petition", "TheVentures – Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter Sits In With the Band At The Birchmere", "Classic 1960s Rock Group Ventures a New Album", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ventures&oldid=986317097, Rock music groups from Washington (state), 1958 establishments in Washington (state), Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2015, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Gerry McGee – guitar (1968–1972, 1985–2017; died 2019), This page was last edited on 31 October 2020, at 02:56.