The Ventures - Wipeout - 1966

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The drummer was pretty awesome.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. IIRC, the B side on their first record and they improvised it on the spot.

[keithbvadu2]

2. The drummer definitely earned his beans and bacon on that basic drum set.

The drummer definitely earned his beans and bacon on that basic drum set.

Later, it was two drum sets, more elaborate.

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3. Cool....thanks for posting.

[highplainsdem]

4. Their cover of that Surfaris classic is good, but I can never hear or read the song title without

instantly hearing, in my head, that crazy laugh at the start of the Surfaris original:

The Surfaris' manager did that laugh...

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5. huh, thought the Ventures owned this, but now

I am perplexed.

[highplainsdem]

6. I remembered the original, but Wikipedia can help unperplex:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(instrumental)


I liked the Ventures, too.

[highplainsdem]

7. Btw, I also loved the Ventures' "Pipeline," but that was another cover, in that

case of the Chantays original. "Walk, Don't Run" had been written and recorded by Johnny Smith, and the Ventures first heard the Chet Atkins cover. They also covered the Shadows' Apache and the Tornados' Telstar really well.

[Chainfire]

8. It is the Surfaris version that I remember.

As a 13 year old, I wanted to be able to play that on the drums so bad.....