Ventures Fill the Spaces Between New Americana Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin, check out the links at your leisure.
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REQ:Request
BED:Music Played Whilst Talking
NEW:New Release
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Don Wilson, The Ventures original and lifelong rhythm guitarist; died Jan 22nd, at age 88 // During the recording of this album, original drummer Howie Johnson left the band and was replaced by Mel Taylor.
* - recorded shortly after the Ventures single was released; first recorded by The Challengers in 1965, on their "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." album/ Click the Link above, left to view the original single
* - Despite being credited as an "original", this was a thinly disguised and renamed cover of "Teen Machine" by The Gamblers, written by Derry Weaver of the group
From Athens, Georgia - the album title comes from a venue where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley performed at the start of their careers: “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had - it wasn’t all that good, and our band [Adam’s House Cat] wasn’t particularly liked there....". // Click the Link above, left to view the article that I lifted that quote from.
BILLED as 'Steve Earle & The Dukes' // Originally on the 1972 self-titled 'Jerry Jeff Walker' album / Click the Link above, left to view an article on this.
From Athens, Georgia - the album title comes from a venue where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley performed at the start of their careers: “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had - it wasn’t all that good, and our band [Adam’s House Cat] wasn’t particularly liked there....". // Click the Link above, left to view the article that I lifted that quote from.
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5:25
Artist:
The Ventures [Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, David Crosby]
* - One of the keys to The Ventures success is that many of their album tracks were covers of singles that were just starting to climb the charts when The Ventures recorded them. SO - they were hoping that these singles would be BIG hits when their albums were actually released a month or two later.
From Chicago, Illinois / The front cover of his third album was born from a logo on a decades-old ashtray he found in a corner nook at "Nashville’s Sound Emporium", while tracking his previous record. // Click the Link above, left to view that cover.
Don Wilson, The Ventures original and lifelong rhythm guitarist; died Jan 22nd, 2022, at age 88 / * - Now considered one of the very first "Surf" recordings. // ** - leader of The Challengers
* - recorded shortly after the Ventures single was released; first recorded by The Challengers in 1965, on their "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." album/ Click the Link above, left to view the original single
* - and "adapted" (Cough, Cough ...) by The Rolling Stones for their Feb 1965 single "The Last Time", their first single for which they claimed songwriting credit
* - Despite being credited as an "original", this was a thinly disguised and renamed cover of "Teen Machine" by The Gamblers, written by Derry Weaver of the group
* - This song was first on their 2000 CD, 'Always Say Please And Thank You' // Group was started in 1992 in Denver, CO; The _only_ constant member has been Slim Cessna, formerly in the band "The Denver Gentlemen"
* - recorded shortly after the Ventures single was released; first recorded by The Challengers in 1965, on their "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." album/ Click the Link above, left to view the original single.
Don Wilson (The Ventures rhythm guitarist; died Jan 22nd, age 88 // The first album on which they played the new Mosrite brand guitars, instead of their usual Fender brand instruments.
