Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pioneering surf-rock band The Ventures have been an iconic presence in music and pop culture for 60 years, from their breakout ...

Nokie Edwards, whose virtuosic electric guitar playing helped define the surf-rock style of the Ventures, the immensely popular instrumental band that rose to prominence in the 1960s, died Monday in ...

BOB BOGLE: BOB BOGLE (75), whose driving, twanging electric guitar made the group he co-founded, the Ventures, the most successful… BOB BOGLE:BOB BOGLE (75), whose driving, twanging electric guitar ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the instrumental guitar band The Ventures, has died. He was 88. Wilson died Saturday in Tacoma of natural causes, surrounded by his four ...

The Ventures were a 1960s surf-rock group. The band's hits included "Walk, Don't Run" and the theme song for "Hawaii Five-O." They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. Guitarist ...

A piece of rock and roll history has an Oklahoma connection. A guitar played by Nokie Edwards is being preserved in a vault at the Oklahoma Museum of Pop Culture (OKPOP). Edwards born in Lahoma, ...

Nokie Edwards, a founding member of the Ventures who helped create rollicking, infectious and influential hits in the 1960s for the guitar-driven band, including the surf-rock standard “Walk, Don’t ...

"It means so much to me that my kids made this," former Ventures guitarist Don Wilson, 87, tells PEOPLE The pioneering surf-rock band The Ventures have been an iconic presence in music and pop culture ...

Guitarist Don Wilson has died at the age of 88. He co-founded the 1960s surf-rock group known as The Ventures. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: At age 24, Wilson met Bob Bogle in Tacoma, Wash. They started ...

For any kid who picked up an electric guitar in the 1960s, it never took long before they’d take a stab at trying to play “Walk Don’t Run,” the genre-defining surf-rock hit from 1960 popularized by ...

Nokie Edwards, lead guitarist with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted instrumental rock combo The Ventures, has died. By Lars Brandle Nokie Edwards, lead guitarist with Hall of Fame-inducted ...