The Ventures
The Ventures ( German: speculative ventures, ventures or projects) are an American instrumental rock band and in 1959 by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, founder of two bricklayers from Seattle, Washington. The Ventures are continuously active since its creation, but they had their greatest success in the 1960s. The pieces pipeline, Walk - Do not Run, Hawaii Five-O, Perfidia, Lullaby of the Leaves, Apache, Telstar and Slaughter On Tenth Avenue are among their biggest hits. Your title The Swinging Creeper was the title tune of the German TV program ZDF local time for many years. Landed in the United States nearly forty of their albums in the charts and seventeen of them made it into the Top 40 with more than 110 million albums sold include the ventures of the most successful bands ever.
They had particular success in Japan. This received five members of the band including Don Wilson in 2010 by the Japanese government of the Order of the Rising Sun 4th grade.
- 3.1 albums
- 3.2 Live albums
- 3.3 Singles
- 3.4 compilations
- 3.5 videos
- 3.6 soundtracks
Band History
The roots of the ventures are in the band The Impacts of Tacoma, Washington. 1959 toured the two guitarists Bob Bogle and Don Wilson of Washington and Idaho with various Begleitbands (among other things known as The Versa -Tones and The Marksmen ). After a demo tape was rejected by the Liberty Records recording studio, founded the two your own label with the name Blue Horizon. After the release of the single cookies and Coke, they hired bassist Nokie Edwards and drummer Skip Moore and decided to form an instrumental rock band.
Under the influence of Chet Atkins album Hi Fi in Focus, the ventures published in 1960, the single - Walk Do not Run on their own label. The single was a local success after the piece had been played regularly before the news of a radio station from Seattle.
Dolton Records, ironically, the owner of the studios Liberty Records, the single took under license and by the summer of 1960 stood Walk - Do not Run # 2 in the U.S. charts behind It's Now or Never by Elvis Presley. Howie Johnson replaced Moore from now on drums and the Ventures began recording for her debut album Walk - Do not Run.
The Singles Perfidia and Ram -Bunk - Shush reached the Top 40 1960-1961 at this time., The Ventures began to develop a hallmark of their music. The pieces of their records were now arranged on a subject, which found itself in each album title.
The fourth album, The Colorful Ventures, included the pieces Yellow Jacket, Red Top, Orange Fire and still at least three more titles with the word " Blue". All cover songs from many genres of music of the 1960s, for example, twist, country, pop, spy music, psychedelic rock, Swamp, garage rock or Latin, were published in the style of the Ventures. In the 1970s coverte the tape pieces in the genres of funk, disco, reggae and soft rock.
1962 Howie Johnson left the band and was replaced by Mel Taylor. Nokie Edwards took over lead guitar and Bob Bogle took over the bass guitar. One of the few not arranged around a specific topic plates was also the most successful, The Lonely Bull, with the play Telstar British instrumental rock band The Tornados. The panel reached the top ten and was the first of three gold records. A new version of their debut album called Walk Do not Run '64 reached # 8 on the charts in 1964.
Mid -1960s was after the success of the venture in the wake of the British Invasion. Nokie Edwards left the band in 1968-1972 and was replaced by Gerry McGee. Hawaii Five -O, the theme song of the television series of the same name, reached # 4 on the 1969 U.S. charts.
With the beginning of the 1970s, the Ventures were looking for a new audience across the Pacific in Japan. After they had created their own label for the Japanese market, Tridex Records, they sold over 40 million records alone there and were thus one of today 's most influential U.S. music groups in Japan.
Between 1972 and 1979, Mel Taylor left the band and was replaced by Joe Barile. Beginning of the 1980s could look back on over twenty years of band history, the quartet Wilson, Bogle, Edwards and Taylor. Edwards left the band permanently in 1984 and was replaced by Gerry McGee. Mel Taylor died in 1996 on a Japan tour and was replaced by his son Leon.
Together with Leonard Cohen, The Dave Clark Five, John Mellencamp and Madonna The Ventures were included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008. In June 2009, Bob Bogle died of cancer.
Members
Current occupation
- Don Wilson - Guitar
- Gerry McGee - Guitar
- Leon Taylor - Drums
- Nokie Edwards - Guitar
- Bob Spalding - Guitar, E -Bass
Former members
- Howie Johnson - Drums
- Mel Taylor - drums
- Skip Moore - drums
- Bob Bogle - Guitar, E -Bass
- Leon Russell - Organ