The
Ventures at the Shrine Auditorium, Duluth MN July 1, 1965
While Ventures live recordings from Japan circa '65 and beyond were and
are plentiful, domestic Ventures live recordings from the '60's have
never been released commercially. For that reason, this is one
fantastic sound document capturing the Ventures on one of their many
mid-60's U.S. appearences. Most of the tracks are what we've heard on
the Japanese live albums such as "All About the Ventures" (aka Live in
Japan '65) but it does include an excellent version of "Summertime", a
tune that can be found nowhere else as a Ventures live performance.
Click on Summertime to
hear Nokie's blazing licks on this one.
The recording was captured by a stage tech who managed to smuggle in a
reel-to-reel tape recorder and hide it under the stage. I'm not sure
where the microphones were placed. This is not a professional sounding
recording BUT it is not an audience recording either. Some "side-stage"
technician talk can be heard on some of the songs as they struggle with
the crapping-out of Bob's bass amp. Bob ended up finishing the show
playing through a Fender Bandmaster amp.
Looking at the photo (which really is that fuzzy on my copy), it
appears that the audience demographic is largely teenage white males.
