Ventures guitarist Bob Bogle dies at 75

[tuvor]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Ventures lead guitarist Bob Bogle, whose fretwork on such instrumental hits such as "Walk -- Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O" influenced countless bands, died Sunday in Vancouver, Washington.

He was 75.

The cause was non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to Don Wilson, who co-founded the Ventures with Bogle in the 1950s.

"He had a special sound that nobody could ever re-create. He was totally unique as a guitar player," Wilson told CNNRadio.

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Damn.

[PittPoliSci]

1. one of my biggest influences as a guitarist.

this makes me very sad.

[paulsby]

2. me 2

what a great great sound and a great influence. he did for reverb what the edge did for digital delay.

bogle and dick dale both r00l

[vow66]

3. Damn, Sad News

When I was a kid, my Mothers brother gave her one of the Ventures albums, I love their music.

The Ventures - Apache
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZVG0hkevms

The Ventures - Ghost Riders In The Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7v6__8DwX4

[dipsydoodle]

6. You missed out Perfidia

a track I used to learn to dance all those years ago : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyUcnoracMM

Still dance to Perfidia but these days to swing music so now prefer Benny Goodman : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-vo-w-D4W4

[DFW]

4. Bob Bogle was the bassist

Nokie Edwards was the lead guitarist.

I used to worship those guys in the early sixties. They inspired me to get a Mosrite guitar for
my first electric guitar, and I learned over half their material, which found, sadly, a sparse
following in the days of Beatlemania, just as my next musical idol, Leo Kottke, did in the days
of disco.

The Ventures had the guts to stick with instrumentals when it was very un-chic to do so. As one
who was equally uncool in those days (still am! LOL), I didn't care a bit. I listened to their
instrumental music over and over again and heard something new every time.

[digidigido]

7. Was just going to correct that before you beat me to it. I still remember the

Budokan LP when they introduced Nokie Edwards san

[badgervan]

10. I Still Do

.... got 63 great Ventures tunes on mp3. I learned to play drums with the Ventures blasting about one foot from my left ear as I played along, and drove my family and the neighborhood crazy. To this day I can play every Ventures tune in my sleep. Great group... hard to believe they're pushing 80. Getting old sucks.

[DFW]

13. I heard their drummer, Mel Taylor, died years ago

Unless I'm thinking of someone else?

[Plain old Doug]

16. Bob Bogle

>Bob Bogle was the bassist

Nokie Edwards was the lead guitarist.<

Not at first. It was a long time ago, but I am quite certain that when they recorded "Walk, Don't Run", Bob was lead and Nokie the bassist, at least that was the way it was the very first day they played it. I just happened to be there that first day. Bob was my brother-in-law at that time. The group had been playing together for a while in night clubs and taverns in the Puget Sound area and I was visiting with him and my sister. Bob, Don and the drummer at that time, whose name I have forgotten, had assembled in Bob's living room for a practice session when Nokie came in all excited about a tune he had heard. He picked out the tune and the others joined in. At the end of the session, I remember Don saying that they really must record that, and the others agreed. And the rest is, as they say, history.

Another memory I have of Bob, which was a few years before the above event, is him sitting on the couch strumming an old beat-up acoustical guitar that had a string missing. I asked him what the heck he was going to do with that, he replied, "I'm going to learn to play it." And he did.

He has been my ex-brother-in-law for longer than I care to remember, and it has been many years since I have had the pleasure of his company, but I have always been very fond of him and am very sad to hear of his death and I join with my nephews and niece and their families in mourning his passing.

[DFW]

19. Come to think of it.....

If I remember the story of the Ventures, it was originally just Bob Bogle and Don Wilson as two guitarists.
But by the time I was into playing music in bands, Nokie Edwards and drummer Mel Taylor had joined the band
and Bob Bogle had moved to bass. I first got into them around the time they started playing Mosrite guitars,
somewhere around 1963-64. I heard Walk Don't Run '64 before I had heard the original recorded in 1960 on
Fender guitars (although the line-up was already with Bogle on bass by the 1960, as I recall--I do not
recall Nokie Edwards being on bass, but I was 8 at the time, and wasn't currently following them when
they first got big).

I also remember that they were originally from the Seattle area, although Mel Taylor was from Richmond, VA.

They inspired me to go out and get a Mosrite electric guitar, although I soon changed over to bass and keyboards,
and then in college, I heard Russian balalaika music and a year later the Leo Kottke armadillo album, and from
then on, the 12 string acoustic and the balalaika have been my obsessions ever since.

[Lethe]

5. f'ed up man. I still have their albums Ventures in Space and Telstar

that is great instrumental guitar work

[Dr Fate]

8. RIP

n/t

[OneBlueSky]

9. my two favorite guitar recording artists during high school were . . .

the Ventures and Duane Eddy . . . still have several vinyl albums by both . . .

RIP, Bob . . . I hear that Jimi, Janis, Lennon, et.al. are forming a new band that they're calling the "Band of Angels" . . . might want to check it out . . .

[dipsydoodle]

11. Princess Diana will guest in "The Band of Angels"

wearing a Mercedes steering wheel as halo.

[Berry Cool]

12. So tasteful.

And witty, too. :puke:

[dipsydoodle]

14. The actual origin of that

was the tale of Linda McCartney bleating because she wasn't given a halo whereas Diana, somewhere in the distance , appeared to have one. St Peter said "If you look closed you see its a ......"

[non sociopath skin]

18. I see.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Er ... thanks for sharing ...

The Skin

[Loudmxr]

15. My wonderful friend has gone to join Mel.

The first Venture album I recorded was #140. It was the first time Mel Taylor had recorded with the band in years. There are too many wonderful stories to recount. Like the one where Bob gave me my nick name "Spanky" "Get the punch right or no spankin' tonight!" So reads my credit on the 25th Nasa anniversary album.

But the best one is when we re recorded Hawaii Five-O. We checked the original track. And ..... they discovered they had been playing the bridge wrong for 25 years. Oppps!!!

Here is some of the last stuff I mixed for them before I went off to do media work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIuIIqbyEIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXQxFn78ApE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb5Smjp-j3s&feature=PlayList&p=56DE6D739456EC83&index=0


BTW this was recorded in NYC and mixed by me in LA. Years later I hired the guy who recorded the tracks. But I didn't know. After about a year of employment he mentioned he had worked with the Ventures too. ..... same recording... small world.

[otohara]

17. You Tube of Wipeout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8__EwAT8VM

RIP Bob Bogle