Don Wilson, the co-founder and rhythm guitarist of The Ventures, has died.
. With over 100 million records sold, the Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time.Ventures founders Bob Bogle and Wilson were bricklayers when they bought guitars and chord books at a pawnshop in Tacoma in 1958.
“They were just really cheap guitars,” Wilson once recalled. “They didn’t stay in tune very well. But we wanted to learn.” By the next year, they had formed the Ventures, adding Nokie Edwards on bass guitar and Howie Johnson on drums. Johnson broke his neck in a car wreck in 1961 and died in 1988. Skip Moore played drums on “Walk Don’t Run,” and Mel Taylor took take over on drums and rounded out the classic lineup, with Edwards on lead guitar, in 1962.
The band continued to perform through numerous lineup changes, but Wilson was the one constant throughout. He didn’t miss a tour until his retirement in 2015, according to the family’s statement.
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