So, Bob Bogle, one of the founding members of The Ventures, died Sunday at the age of 75. Bob had formed The Ventures with Don Wilson in the late 50's in Tacoma, Washington and went on to become the most famous and influential instrumental surf band ever, instrumental not only in their playing but also in their place in the annals of rock history. So influential in fact that they were given the label of "The Band That Launched a Thousand Bands." None of this would have been made possible if it were not for Don Wilson's own mother starting her own label, Blue Horizon, to promote and get the band started after them being rejected by nearly everyone.
I remember when I first got my guitar I would come home some nights to find my dad dabbling on around playing some old Venture one stringers with the Reverb set to like 8 or something. I was always too cool for The Ventures but I listened to Agent Orange all the time, who played the surf covers, ahhhhh the retardedness of being a naive teenager who knows it all.
As of the end of this post I am Currently listening to "Brooding & Breeding: The Training Of The Owlettes" by Passenger from the album "Broken Hearts Of Brothers Lost" 2006. This was a local area band that recorded two albums worth of music, but never released it after one of the members died. I came across the two albums on a blog written by the guy who [the band] hounded to give them a chance listen. He did, and was blown away and recorded them, tragedy struck and it sat on the shelf finished for two years before he decided that it were too good to sit on a shelf, the concept of these two album was about a war between the Owls and the Rabbits, the best part is that both albums are instrumental so the range of feeling is even greater because you can tell your own story in your head.
It's KNDA weird that this post has two instrumental bands, in both respects, and two great musicians who had Died.
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