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I have an ongoing hunt for hard-to-find tracks of THE VENTURES' recordings, most of which are not available in stores anymore.
If you think you can help me add to my Ventures collection of CD's, CD-R's and DVD's, then please PM me and at the same time let me know how I may help add to your collection... I’d be very grateful.

[edit: also some of the 2009 releases: "The Ventures Play Kayama Yuzo", "50th Anniversary Live", "Play with The Ventures (Vol. 1)" and "Play with The Ventures (Vol. 2)"]
Thanks!

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Wow, 'never saw most of those covers. Thank you for sharing.

'Been a devoted Ventures fan for many centons.

Haole Jim wrote:Wow, 'never saw most of those covers. Thank you for sharing.

'Been a devoted Ventures fan for many centons.

You may want to check out some more covers here: http://www.sandcastlevi.com/ventures/ventlp60.htm
enjoy!

I would love to hear Live in Tokyo 68. It would be great if they were playing Combos thru Mosrite Amps but I doubt it. I am also dying to know the song list.

brutus wrote:I would love to hear Live in Tokyo 68. It would be great if they were playing Combos thru Mosrite Amps but I doubt it. I am also dying to know the song list.

In Tokyo '68
LP: Liberty LP8542 - 12/1968
Available on CD: Live Box, Volume 1
Let's Go
Telstar
Yesterday/Flint Hill
Born Free
Caravan
Bonnie & Clyde
Taste of Honey
Ode to Billy Joe
Wipeout
Pipeline
House of the Rising Sun
Apache
Walk Don't Run
(courtesy of Sandcastlevi.com)

[edit] The Ventures Book says the following: “While the 1968 Far East tour was Gerry’s first overseas trip with the band, it was also the last time The Ventures were seen playing Mosrite guitars.”

My revised wants list, thanks for looking.

Only the back cover of the Live '68 LP shows what appear to be sunburst Mosrite Celebrity guitars/bass being played. Amps are NOT Mosrite amps. You can see the Fender F on one of them but doesn't look like any Fender I'm familiar with and the rest of the name doesn't look like "ender".

Back photo is b/w. Only front cover is color but the boys are facing away from the camera.

I think I played this once just to hear it. It's collectable to have it, but the Live 71 w/Gerry on lead is far superior in every way.

I have the 72-78 LP, there was no live 79, then Superlive 80.

77, 78, 80 were never released on CD to my knowledge.

I know something about all of these so feel free to ask any/all questions.

Hey wstagner, thanks for your interest and response.
Those Ventures live albums certainly have something additional that studio recordings don't have -the spontaneity, ad-hoc creativity, excitement, yeah and even sometimes a mistake or two! NOBODY is perfect, thank goodness.
I have the '71 w/Gerry (playing a LP? and Bob on a 'Beatles' bass), really cool. As you can conclude from my wants list update, I have managed to get the '68 concert and some others too on cd-r since my initial posting, thanks to a fellow forum member!

Too bad some of the concerts have not been released on cd; I'd like to hear them one day after someone with the vinyls has transferred them to cd-r.

I'll get back to you if I have a question but also feel free to ask me anything I might possibly be able to help you with

Paul

I generally prefer live recordings compared to studio recordings, which can be too perfect and boring.
Our band records live....mistakes and all.