PWD, some of those guys started playing together in 1958.
Makes me feel young
Trivia, one of the guitarists in that video wrote and laid down the rifts for the monkee's theme sond and also last train to clarksville, and Nokie Williams (the guy in the hat) was the very first guitarist to use a fuzz pedal. His friend invented it for him, a guy by the name of Rhodes. As in fender rhodes.
In the 60's, the ventures sold more records than the beatles.
They've sold over 100,000,000 records since they started.
The list of famous musicians who credit the ventures as a major influence is huge and ranges from Page to Townsend to the beatles to Elton John.
In Japan they are still generally regarded as one of the best rock bands ever and still sell out every concert tour they do, and they about do one a year.
They were playing surf music before it was surf music.
The sound they invented was so cool that Jan and Dean, the beach boys, and Dick dale imitated it and turned it into surf music.
they didn't write all the songs they do but all the groups who'se songs they covered were influenced by them, and IMO they did the covers better than the original songs
