Surf Rider Video

[EL34]

Here I am digging into my past

I still Love this old Surf Instrumental stuff

Gonna try and record several of the tunes before I forget how to play them.

This is another one featuring the ReVibe

Surf Rider cover - Guitar Instrumental - Guitar Rig

[tubenit]

Man, that was a FUN tune!!!  And you got pretty loosened up on that one. It sounded fantastic.

Is that another original?

And I thought it was especially cool how you got your dog to walk around on cue during your solo. Awesome!

 

Jeff

[sluckey]

I still love that stuff too! When I was a teen I'd spend hours playing along with my Ventures albums. My folks hated it! 

You do it very well. I'd like to hear lot's more of this stuff. Maybe even some Ventures in Space?

[EL34]

Thanks guys

Jeff,
I think this was written by the Ventures - Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards and Don Wilson
It was made famous by The Lively Ones

There was a time that I played nothing but this type of music
Got a few more of my favorites to do

Gonna have to brush of on my right hand technique

[Bassmanster]

Great!  Yeah, I play that one.  Have even played it in front of people.

Supposedly Nokie wrote it.  It was called Spudnik...the Lively Ones copied it, it was a hit,
and the Ventures' lawyer got the rights assigned back to them.

I get the arpeggio chords to the bridge right, but I have never bothered to figure out exactly what
is supposed to be played there.  :D

[EL34]

Thanks for checking in Gorn

Yeah I don't really bother with doing the copycat thing down to the last note

I play it the way I hear it in my head, which may be wrong, but that's the way I like to do it

I see these guys on youtube that get all anal about playing it exactly like the original which I think is silly

Be yourself I say and develope your own style

[rafe]

Still one of my favorites, Nokie would be proud.......The surf music from the 60's (Some of it ,Not all LOL)
is some of the greatest stuff ever written and performed .....IMHO ......uniquely American sounding

[EL34]

Me likey the Ventures and Dick Dale a bunch

[Bassmanster]

Dick can still play.  Saw him here last month.  I figured on a shadow of his former self, but he played and sounded great and really seemed to enjoy himself.  His son is a great drummer.

[EL34]

Last time I saw him his son was about 5 or 6 and he had a tiny little kit set up for him on stage

[bigsbybender]

I believe Nokie Edwards wrote this one.

I have played this song in bands for years as filler and people love it. The younger set was introduced to it in the Film "Pulp Fiction".

It was this stuff that got me into playing electric!

[EL34]

Yes, Nokie wrote it
I have notes about that on my youtube page that don't show up when you play it here

Ever hear the weird 65 live in japan album (my least favorite ventures album)
Every song was played way faster than any other album version

Cruel Sea is played so fast on that album it's like they were all doing Meth  

funny thing is, there are guys on youtube copying that horrible really fast version
I don't think they have ever heard the normal way it was played

[rafe]

A friend of mines band opened for Dick Dale a month or so back,in NJ, unfortunately I live in FL now.
for some reason those surf guitarists just seem to get better with age....must be the salt air and undertow......

[bigsbybender]

Ever hear the weird 65 live in japan album (my least favorite ventures album)
Every song was played way faster than any other album version

Cruel Sea is played so fast on that album it's like they were all doing Meth  

funny thing is, there are guys on youtube copying that horrible really fast version
I don't think they have ever heard the normal way it was played

Yeah, I have that record and they put some tracks from that on a later "Best of" CD that I bought like 15 years ago. I'm not sure why they played their songs that way on that record.... Showing off the playability their new Mosrites perhaps?  
 The Ventures still do their annual summer tour of Japan.  I was going to see them in both '04 and '05 when I lived there but they were sold out well before I could get to a ticket booth.

[EL34]

My theory is that they had to cram all those tunes into a certain amount of time

I was kind of pissed when I bought that CD and heard the way they jacked up all the tunes
And the Japamese announcer that felt that he had to tell stories in between every song