The Ventures - Caravan (1965)

[sbullar]

Mel Taylor one of the best , if not the best rock drummer of all time. He got so much sound out of that little bitty drum kit with only one cymbal. Love that style of playing, all the rhythm nowadays is played on the hi-hats. Everything sounds the same.

[kwakky]

I WANNA HEAR CARAVAN WITH A DRUM SOLA

[crestula]

@kwakky I can't hear or see the word "caravan" without thinking of that line. Frank Zappa is the man!

[hanysk]

super!

[musefan69]

great playing,cool rendition of Caravan...hip.

[manuellopez1956]

no one can play this well these days, am I right?

[SwornToMutilate]

@manuellopez1956 No...no you're not

[raybanfandom]

@manuellopez1956

You'll be surprised! People who play music for a living play things that pay. People that play just to play just play. I've been in jam sessions where I think to myself, "Why aren't we playing this on the road? This is great!" Then reality sets in and I got to get back home before I drink too much and miss too much sleep, only to get up early in the morning to work on something that does not give me as much satisfaction or joy as playing music. Kids, playing music is no joke.

[gibranmero]

@raybanfandom

From a musician to a musician: You are so fucking damn right

[RAMLIA1]

Very nice!

[MrKrystyna2]

Swietnie zagrane

[asikodts]

Dios, qué rico suena esa guitarra

[Orbisonlover]

one of my dad's fav guitar songs.....

[utututu234]

0:58 best dance ever

[mrwildcrocodile]

well there having a laugh bet half the people dont no the song anyway

[promptaet]

drummer ?

[jamesconga]

@promptaet mel taylor

[promptaet]

@jamesconga okay thank you .he looks like a Gene Krupa...anyway exellent drummer..

[guraknugen]

@Gyphia As far as I know, Chet Atkins did those triplets before Nokie. Chet was one of the guitarists that was a great inspiration source for Nokie back in those days, as far as I understand from different interviews with Nokie available here on YouTube. Les Paul was another one, but I'm not sure he did those triplets.

You can hear The Ventures play triplets like that in earlier recordings as well, for example Chet's ”Trambone” on ”Another Smash”, released in September 1961.

[Jenyabasist]

Круто!И это было в 1965 году как мы отстали!!!!!

[johnnypululando]

@Gyphia 5 years is pretty long time,and people still think that this way to play guitar was invented by blackmore,page or beck.

[notvalidcharacters]

Hey, is that Marianne from Gilligan's Island dancing in front?

[speedskiff2]

@notvalidcharacters don't know if it's Dawn Wells. Blonde @ 0:43 might be Teri Garr.

[SurfinJaguars]

Teylor 

[TubeGunner]

"Walk, Don't Run - Vol. 2" (1964) is another kick ass album of theirs with more smokin' guitar work. This tune they are playing here on this video they first did on their original "Walk, Don't Run" album from 1960.

[rpstephe1]

And wait - THEY AREN'T "FINGER SYNCING" EITHER!! They are really playing live!!!

[fstrc02]

The dancers are extra special.

[gettherefas]

aaaaaaaa Monsrites guitars =)

[blacktearandstorm]

simple i do love it!!!!! thats a real guitar!

[usl52]

No pedals or anything excepting simple guitars, simple amplifiers (not like todays sophisticated ones) and above all...nimble fingers ! Let's see anyone do it today !!

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ .

[souzabluesplayer]

Holly Mosrites!

[winner2me]

Genius play, way ahead of their time...in fact I would this group a trend setter. Modern guitar playing is derived from the Venture's style!

[fmontenegro2008]

LOS CONJUNTOS NICARAGUENSES LA TOCARON SUPER... A VECES CREO QUE MEJOR.

[MrKUIDAORE7]

アメリカ電気ギターの王様。エレキの神様。

[PleaseGoAway1000]

Columbo on lead. Excellent!

[usl52]

Why does it sound good even today...? 'Cause that's the way the Guitar should be played. With your fingers. NOT with a processor, where u can't make out a damn thing played. No wonder they are loved as dearly, even today.

[chipshot4455]

1:08-1:25=Danny Gatton.  Nice.....

[hoodup247]

@chipshot4455

hes not in the video ?

[chipshot4455]

@hoodup247 Danny Gatton came along later blazing on a Telecaster and that lick reminded me of him. Danny was awesome but couldnt' handle life and killed himself. RIP.

[jeevesthepunk]

I don't say this too often, but sod the dancing girls and go back to the men!

[henpevideos]

bah mt afude! ventures eh demais!

[KidEllington]

...by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol

[BzzDog]

@Gyphia couldn't help but want to scream les paul when i read this haha :)

[benny50000]

This song would have been perfect in Fallout New Vegas!! :)

Except for the time (Fallout-music is from the 50's)

[2009framat]

@Gyphia

That guitar was ahead of its time 10 to 15 years earlier. Just check out some of the country & western guitarist of the 50's

[VA24541]

@2009framat You got that right! Joe Maphis played his custom made double neck Mosrite so well that he was dubbed "The King of The Strings". In fact, his use of that Mosrite helped that company get off the ground.

[zuneslave]

Definitely an influence on The Hellacasters and Los Straitjackets. Love that ol' reverb sound!

[mrguitarjunior]

@Gyphia mate, even then they got a lot of those licks from les paul

[freakomation]

we played this in my jazz band last year

[moondog50002000]

those amps are hard to find. they don't make them like that any more

[marioca08]

Sincronismo "1000" das dançarinas... Hahahah

[Distilled13]

True Musicians on the edge of music!

[1963okegawa]

NICE DANCE！！

[TheoBurke]

this is great. great tune, great chops

[promptaet]

drummer ?

Gene Krupa?



[prof1661]

@promptaet

Late Great Mel Taylor

[promptaet]

drummer ?

[pappysmp]

Really this is Classic rock!

[notaire2]

What an esoteric performance it was!

[raveon09]

oh well,everyone has an opinion.Me,I'd rather just enjoy the music.

[salvatoreadamo7]

marvelous version!!

[ThePoopsnak]

just friggen brilliant

[mandelm2001]

I got to help carry their amps during their tour to Okinawa in 1966. On that tour they were sponsored by Guyatone so they all used those amps with Mosrite guitars. They were my first big influence when I was but a young lad. Nokie was heavily influenced by Les Paul and yes, he was ahead of his time and influenced lots of guitarists. The Japanese just went crazy for them, still do!

[AgentZeroForTheWin]

@Gyphia you may be right but pretty much every musician uses fast triplets, its almost like saying note his expert use of notes

[Cheguri2010]

Esto es muy bueno, pero si pueden ESCUCHEN LA VERSION DEL GRUPO URUGUAYO " LOS IRACUNDOS" , es superlativa!!!

[phlizmo]

@Gyphia Listen to Les Pauls version which predates this. much faster and cleaner.

Also check out jimmy bryant he was fast and just sick. I love the ventures but they are not breaking ground here.

[tomhits]

@phlizmo. You may be right there, however guitar bands I guess were more popular then than solo artists and young listeners and guitarists had been under influence from bands like Ventures+Shadows, only learned of Bryant and LP if they would get deeper into history and listen to "old" masters.

[pappysmp]

This is Heavy Metal Baby !!

[TubeGunner]

The Ventures were great musicians. Listen to the albums "Ventures in Space" (1963) and "The Fabulous Ventures" (1964) and the killer guitar work, as well as their versions of "Wipe Out" and "Green Onions" among other covers. This band smoked.

[tomhits]

@TubeGunner. I still have the original Surfin Ventures album from early 60s!!! One of my gems and learned how to play guitar from it.

[TubeGunner]

@tomhits That's cool. A great, great band to learn guitar from. Great tunes and great musicians.

[slayerrules114]

@Gyphia .... two words, Cliff Gallup

[Teenidol83]

@Gyphia Actually thats all taken from guys like Les Paul and Chet Atkins, they were ahead of their time, still amazing tho!

[kevlarunderware]

somebody was really smart to record this for future generations

[WilliamBrothers]

I tried those moves at a club recently. Everyone could tell I was having a swell time!

[mnestrt]

Nokie Edwards was like a rock version of Django Rienhardt and Mel Taylor similarly a rock version of Gene Krupa. Awsome! The Beatles made the guitar and it's sound visible to me but from the start I wanted to play like the Ventures!

[rcweide]

@mnestrt You missed Duane, Cliff Gallop, Eddie Cochran, Dave Edmunds, Bo Diddley, and all of the greats that made all this possible. You're too young to know!

[mnestrt]

@rcweide au contrare! i may not have been quite old enough to see them first time out in their career but I caught up rapidly thanks to the R&R revivals in the late 60's and early 70's. Some of them may have been a little past their prime like Gene Vincent due to unfortunate events in his life but it was all good and made me a believer! I saw Chuck Berry and Fats and Bo and little Richard and all the Doo Wop groups with the original members. I worshipped them all!

[hinodecho69]

They took a song written by Duke Ellington's Puerto Rican trombonist, Juan Tizol, and gave it a treatment that today would be known as "surfabilly". A good lesson for you youngsters who feel compelled to pigeonhole yourself into some narrow little genre of music, but good music is open to numerous influences.

[pickinpedaler]

@hinodecho69 True that. I do a cover of "My Girl" that sounds more like Memphis/Philly than Motown, & it seems to work just fine. Was feelin' funky when I started working on it, & that's how it came out.

[wa1ufo]

Vintage goodness!

[GavinRoskamp]

I'm diggin' the dancin'.

[joeshittheragman1]

The VENTURES

[johnpeelfeel]

guitar, drums and dancin' girls;)

[Moobysnax]

Sweet Dance Breaks

[philthetremoloking]

@Gyphia lemme guess...django by the way of les paul?

[bigachman210]

probably the dumbest thing i have ever heard....1, song was stolen, 2, they are evidently tone deaf, and 3, it just sounds like shit.

[philthetremoloking]

@bigachman210 lmao

[thewaybackmachine]

@bigachman210 What a dumbass comment! Thats Nokie edwards playing lead. Many of your rock gods idolize this band So do some research before you comment asshole!! You probably listen to miley cyrus dork

[Building529]

..great video, but those stewwwwwwpid girls dancing drives me crazy, soooo lamola.

[TheZhongzheng]

Surftastic!!!!

[SaxPortal]

HOT DANG!!

[DoUBeliveNRockNRoll]

I'm really enjoying the dancers sweaters and leggings.

[GHub99]

@DoUBeliveNRockNRoll they are very sexy indeed

[lnventlve]

Yay for Caravan with a drum solo! :)

[phyllis1753]

@lnventlve not to mention free peanut butter and bologna sandwiches! FZ smiles!

[mandrocker]

I didn't see the first time that the drummer is picking the bass with the stick ahah! Amazing :P

[Pyriline]

thanks so much for sharing!

[barthramone]

rip bob bogle

[7isunlucky]

Mel Taylor is fucking amazing

[promagnum]

Gatta love these old Shindig shows.

[flamencodiablo007]

such brilliant coreography, I was moved to tears....

[BluesLvr09]

@flamencodiablo007

one of the best vids iearly 've seen of them.

[animal90sFreak5]

Styling good,I'll take that.

[devrajlg]

do u have come september ?

[kuramo01]

ライブ６６でのキャラバンフル動画が見たいです。

[acla9000]

Nice and vibrating version of this song, recorded by Nat King Cole, wow! Thanks!

[kosspro4aa]

...so, here's what you've got: no pedal boards, minimal drum kit...Mosrite guitars through Fender Showman and Bassman amps, Gretch drums...just four guys squeezing everything out of what they had. And, it STILL sounds good today...

[Chimbo65]

@kosspro4aa

I agree.

A new band from today could NOT do that

All the best

Chimbo

Chimbo`s Revival

[jkuebler89]

@Chimbo65 you lack faith. all hope is lost.

[nemo227]

@kosspro4aa And you are exactly right.

[clarkewi]

@kosspro4aa Check out what the Iron Butterfly could do with 1 guitar and LOTS OF VOLUME!

[meinLiebsterFeind]

@kosspro4aa

Yeah, their gear was awesome, and they did have plenty of reverb. To have that setup would cost many thousands of dollars today because all the budget gear sounds shit.

[heinzpo]

@kosspro4aa this is a perfect example of introducing quality vs quantity.

[MrRockmeister1]

@kosspro4aa Great comment. You are absolutely right. I wish we could go back to making music this way.

[Grace95Lucy96]

hehe ^^

[dbbubba]

Find jimmy Bryant's version of "Caravan" and you'll see that this is pretty much a lick for lick cop of it on lead GTR.

Still, if you are going to steal an arrangement... steal a great one and Jimmy Bryant's was just that GREAT.

[airoff]

The NW has the greatest rock drummers.

[101Volts]

Mosrite guitars. Oh yeah. They are great for playing lead on as long as you're using light gauge strings and don't rely on bending much, The vintage ones are not friendly to barre chords high up on the neck though.

[lofthouse28]

Wow, the Music was Hot! & The Dames ate fixed better Meatloaf back in 65 I'm sure, Love the Galls!

[dedman29]

lol mitä shittii

[DikkSteini]

He's the Krupa in this grupa!

[DikkSteini]

The go-go girls had those nice big meaty thighs back in '65.

[oldpeculiar]

ranran, I love that sound too. I believe that Love used those guitars as well.

[ranran19701]

I love that Mosrite twang......although I was told they did not like them too much because they were too sensitive.

I have a white 1963 bound-body Mosrite, and it sounds just like this.

[AresCassell]

Great cover

[deathhead76]

hah sweet as boyd nice to meet ya...LOL at radiator

[deathhead76]

drummer is my grandfather...i listen to metal but i gotto admit its some good stuff...yes he was hitting the bass strings with one stick..the new drummer now my uncle leon taylor does the same thing keeping the tradition alive

[Boydgrohl1]

Your Mel's grandson? I'm Don's cousin (well, my Dad's his cousin).

[Radiator1991]

and im the pope

[dmacmurray]

...and a party-pooper, too, Radiator.

[xombl3]

iam daniel day lewis

[dmacmurray]

Well, if Mel is your gramps, I have to tell you I thought he was one of the best drummers of his era. I idolized those guys and my guitar playing has a lot of their influence in it, especially the hammer-ons and pull-offs. My band, The Tremolos out of Bossier City, used to play all their songs, including Caravan. Our drummer used to do the drum solos to a tee and he did the bass playing like Mel. That song was much longer on the album and Mel used to transition to both sticks on the bass.

[Kitschead]

I'm sorry if you know but you do know that caravan isn't their song right?

[stupullen]

Firs off you are not sorry...Caravan was blessed to the ventures way back in 62 (look at my video response) it really does not matter who wrote it , or preformed it first.

[nukejohnnyo]

Did they or any performer write their own stuff back then? The old days were so great because great performers were able to be great performers without having to write their own hits just to share their gift. That's why this music is so great, the best performers were paired up with the best songwriters instead of getting just a little bit of both out of 1 group.

[Keijz74]

If I see the DVD in a store, it's mine.

[fabrosin]

No other bands playing instrumentals have influenced the music world than THE VENTURES creations till this date...!!

[HITTHESKINS]

try the SHADOWS

[smoke770077]

wow sweeeet.... The drummer was playen the bass!

[flaviolima91]

you are wrong

[sullivan92604]

yes he was

[flaviolima91]

oh, yeah i saw it now... i thought you meant they changed roles for the whole song... sorry

[GringoJet]

That's an old Gene Krupa tick . . . tre cool.

Gringo Jet is on I-Tunes

[mike32738]

... and a Ray Bauduc trick (Big Noise from Winnetka)

[ryantunks]

This is the best!

[LongLiveTheBeatles]

Ah, the sound of a Mosrite Ventures' Model...I have the same model Bob Bogle, the bass player is playing, except in three color sunburst.

[Keijz74]

You have a really nice guitar then :o)#

[samgar2]

Mosrite! D

[Keijz74]

Awesome!

[jicchan0723]

Nice music !!