"He will be missed," Don Wilson's family tells PEOPLE in a statement after The Ventures' co-founding member died peacefully of natural causes Saturday, surrounded by his four children Glenn Garner is ...

"It means so much to me that my kids made this," former Ventures guitarist Don Wilson, 87, tells PEOPLE Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been writing about entertainment, celebrity, ...

Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist with surf music pioneers the Ventures, died on Jan. 22 at the age of 88, his family confirmed. They told NBC Seattle reporter Saint Bryan that Wilson had ...

On April 26, 1960, the members of the Tacoma-based rock group “The Ventures” modeled their clean-cut look with matching blazers, ties and khakis. The fresh faced young musicians, from left, Nole F.

Nowadays, very few instrumental records are successful, but during the late Fifties and early Sixties there was a large following for instrumental groups. At first, they tended to feature saxophones ...

Bob Bogle, the co-founder and original lead guitarist of the Ventures, the influential instrumental rock band whose hits included “Walk -- Don’t Run” and the “Hawaii Five-0” TV theme, has died. He was ...

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 ...

It’s August and well, surf's up! What better time to check in with one of the founders of The Ventures, whose instrumentals Pipeline, Diamond Head and Walk Don’t Run evoke the ocean scene as much as ...

He was a founder, with Bob Bogle, of what has been called the best-selling and most influential instrumental band in rock ’n’ roll history. By Neil Genzlinger Don Wilson, co-founder of the ...

Nokie Edwards, whose guitar playing in the Ventures helped define surf rock and earned the group a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died on Monday. He was 82 years old. “Nokie Edwards passed ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pioneering guitarist Bob Bogle, whose rock-instrumental band the Ventures scored a pair of hits in the 1960s with "Walk, Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O," has died, the group ...