Ventures in Space CLEAR

Highly recommended must have for all Venture addicts and guitar fans. All other worldly effects were supposedly achieved using musical instruments...no syns. I believe first time the Mosrite Guitar was featured on the album back cover and on record with it's distinctive sound. Some really great original tunes in addition to covers of popular "Space" instrumentals of that era.

THIS IS THE INSTRUMENTAL GROUP,COOLEST LP

" Cosmic Satisfaction " , It's So Cool it's Icy,The Ventures are Great 60's Band, RankinUp In the Stars with The Shadows.

Great!

this is the best ventures album of all time if your a ventures fan you have got to get this album (wow)

Timely delivery, but the jacket was a little more worn than I expected. Plays fine though

Though never the inventors or the pioneers, The Ventures, who for nearly the entire decade of the 60’s, released two to three albums a year, nearly all of them instrumentally theme based, creating a soundtrack for this time in history. It was nearly impossible to listen to musical styles change, from surf, to British invasion, to psychedelic, without turning your head slightly, and find that The Ventures were there to deliver a fresh, if not sometimes sanitized rendition of the current cultural sonic shifts.Make no mistake about it, The Ventures were first rate musicians, musicians idolized by such artists as George Harrison, Joe Walsh, Carl Wilson [who said that The Beach Boys learned every Ventures’ song from their early years], Stephen Stills, John Fogerty, and many others for whom their stylish, tight, and textured sounds provided both inspiration and lasting aspiration. Then there were the effects and guitars used by The Ventures, instruments that created significant and individual sounds, signaling an era of finer electric guitars that enhanced and developed signature sounds. This also lead to artists having multiple guitars on standby, so that they were not limited in sound quality.Of all The Venture albums, their two standout productions were Surfing and The Ventures In Space, which was probably their most significant, experimental, and original album … coming out in 1964, where they didn’t so much capitalize on the space race, but in essence developed a signature sound for those heady days that would last long into the future. While their other outings did capitalize on a sound, and were dismissed just as quickly. The Ventures In Space has stood as a landmark of musicianship and vision, that may sound a bit cheesy today, yet was certainly at the vanguard, though not intentionally, for the psychedelic sounds that were just around the corner.The album jacket was magically breathtaking, an impeccable dragster with a couple at a make-out vista overlooking Los Angeles, the city of lights below them, and the vastness of the universe spreading out before them, causing me wonder how many people saw this spot as a point of musical pilgrimage, as if something majestic could be transcended just from being there. I can’t tell you how many hours I spent with that cover, one that suggested a profound sense of both danger and wonder, emotions that lead me into the psychedelic haze without hesitation.The Ventures’ slick guitar work was eloquently laced with futuristic effects that often came across as theremin-ish, yet the liner notes profess that all sounds were musically created without studio effects. Of course today we know this not to be true, nevertheless with their fine mix of surf meets space, they were poised to create a memorable album … and they did. While the album still holds up well today, most people will see it as a diversion rather than an essential musical genera that elicits replay and rediscovery. On that note, this is one of those essential albums that should be visited in both mono and stereo to fully comprehend the outstanding studio production, as the stereo version is nothing more than a reprocessing of something that was singularly great to begin with, and as with film, should never have been colourized to accommodate the fledgling stereophonic sound that was taking hold.I had the privilege of seeing The Ventures live on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey one summer, much later in the 60’s … they were campy, wore outfits that seemed worn and tired, goofy choreographed dance steps, and playing a smattering of their hits for a half hour three times a day for that weekend on Steel Pier, in mid afternoon no less, causing me me exhale with a bit of sadness, and smile along at the same time to a musical memory.Review by Jenell Kesler

I remember listening to this over and over again as a kid starting at 5 years old. Woe to me if my big brother caught me playing his records (he was afraid I'd scratch them). But at least my brother was generous and played this album a lot. As a little kid, some of these songs really frightened me (The Bat, He Never Came Back, Exploration in Terror), but I grew to love the whole thing. This record was a big reason why I got into being a musician in later years and took up the drums (and writing original stuff on keys) and having a moderately successful carreer doing soundtracks. I don't think there is any other album from the 60's as wacky and as experimental as this. This is the Ventures really pushing their boundaries and coming up with amazing sounds (done all on guitars - as they stress in the liner notes). This is a great example of incredible 60's guitar albums. I think it's downright historic. It was also Keith Moon's favorite record.

Having been a fan of The Ventures for Many years and already having it on CD I decide to get the vinyl as well. This is a instrumental masterpiece and just as good today as it was on its 1964 release. I was pleasantly surprised that it is on coloured 180 gram coloured vinyl and the quality is superb, not a click, crackle or pop on it.

Truly excellent album, the best rock instrumental album of all time, by a long way - and has been voted as such many times

I ordered this item from Prestivo 3 and got a black vinyl mono copy instead of the silver coloured Sundazed LP I expected. i wasn't happy, as you can imagine. I did eventually get my money back but not without some hassle. I eventually ordered it from a seller in Japan and ended up spending about$40 CAD. The record is one of the Ventures' best and the Vinyl mastering is simply superb. Just make sure that, if you want the silver vinyl lp as shown in the listing, that's the one you'll get.

VERY PLEASED . THANK YOU

Musique "Space Rock" sans synthétiseur mais donne déjà un sentiment d'évasion. C'était le début d'un genre nouveau, malheureusement à ma connaissance il n'y a pas eu de suite.