Ventures, The: Stars on Guitars

[Played March 30 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms, including Tubi.] Staci Layne Wilson's fascinating, inspirational, informative, insightful, 89-minute, 2020 documentary that focuses on the popular instrumental, quartet rock group The Ventures, including Don Wilson (rhythm guitarist), bass guitarist Bob Bogle, lead guitarist Nokie Edwards, and drummer Mel Taylor, and their rise to fame during the 1960s and consists of archival photographs and film clips and commentary by actor Eric Roberts, actor/musician Billy Bob Thornton, Hollywood historian Giddle Partridge, songwriters Christian Wilde and Josie Cotton, Dolton Records owner Robert Reisdorff, singers/songwriters Liz Brasher and Dean Passarella, music producer Josie Wilson, singer Mark Farner, former tour manager Bill Ford, cover model/Hollywood historian Pleasant Gehman, Don Wilson's daughter Staci Wilson, and musicians John Fogerty, Danny Amis, Jeffrey Baxter, Jack DeFranco, Paul Warren, Bill Engelhart, Waddy Wachtel, Del Cashar, Randy Bachman, Barry Goudreau, Wayne Kramer, Lalo Schifrin, Duke Dickerson, Tim Polecat, Marky Ramone, Rayuki, and Jimmy Page.
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