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Two months after the Ventures<\/strong> performed with the Fabulous Wailers<\/strong> at the Moore Theater in Seattle to celebrate their new collaboration “Two Car Garage,” Bob Bogle<\/strong>, founding member of the Ventures has passed away on Sunday. He suffered from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and became too frail to play with the Ventures in his waning years. But he lived long enough to see his band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2008.<\/p>\n Ventures co-founder Don Wilson<\/strong>, Bogle\u2019s friend and musical collaborator of more than five decades, shared some memories for the Tacoma Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n Wilson recalled selling cars in Seattle in the late \u201850s, when Bogle walked into his dealership one day. Wilson was struggling to make commission. And when he learned that Bogle worked construction, Wilson asked if he could get him a job. In the photo above, you can see Bob Bogle<\/strong>, left; Nokie Edwards<\/strong>, top; Mel Taylor<\/strong>, seated; and Don Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You can read more about Bob Bogle by reading:<\/p>\n Tacoma Tribune obituary<\/a> The LOUIE of the Week this week is any LOUIE LOUIE by the Ventures, but I don’t where you can hear any of them for free. My favorite version by the Ventures is the instructional version of LOUIE LOUIE on the “Play Guitar with the Ventures” LP which you may be able to find at better record stores… <\/p>\n Two months after the Ventures performed with the Fabulous Wailers at the Moore Theater in Seattle to celebrate their new collaboration “Two Car Garage,” Bob Bogle, founding member of the Ventures has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,22,30,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries","category-pacific-northwest","category-wailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cThat\u2019s why we started working together,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cAnd then we found out that we each knew a few chords on the guitar, you know, and we had a lot of free time on our hands. But neither of us owned a guitar.\u201d
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\nThe two day laborers bought a pair of guitars and a chord book at a downtown Tacoma pawn shop in 1958, aspiring to nothing more than easier work headlining local nightclubs. But fate had so much more in store for them.
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\nThe Ventures scored their first hit with a remake of a Chet Atkins<\/strong> song called \u201cWalk, Don\u2019t Run\u201d in 1960. Their version would become one of the most influential songs in rock history, sparking a remarkable run that saw them chart with 38 albums between 1960 and 1972 alone, en route to more than 100 million records sold.
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\n\u201cThat song started a whole new movement in rock and roll. The sound of it became \u2018surf music\u2019 and the audacity of it empowered guitarists everywhere,\u201d said Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/strong>\u2019s John Fogerty<\/strong> as he inducted the Ventures into the Rock Hall last year. \u201cEvery guitar player on this planet knows what I\u2019m talking about.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nSeattle Times obituary<\/a>
\nSeattle Post Intelligencer obituary<\/a>
\nRolling Stone obituary<\/a>
\nNME obituary<\/a>
\nThe Associated Press obituary<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Ventures](\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2009\/ventures-playguitar.jpg\")
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