As a drummer, I’m here to tell you that this was one of those songs that every drummer worth his weight in salt gave it his all to learn to play… because of the speed of the song it’s not as easy as it looks…. And also always attributed to the world of surfers and beach bums🏝️
This was one of the great instrumental bands from the 60's. I had their greatest hits album. Their biggest hit was "Walk, Don't Run". Some of the other songs they also did were "Telstar", "Lonely Bull" & "Hawaii 5-O theme. The group the Surfaris are actually the first ones who recorded "Wipe Out" in 1963. But it was common for groups to play each others songs.
@@michaelasay8587 3 top ten hits, 1 was #2. 3 more in top 40. Sold over 110 million albums. That is insane for an all instrumental band. No other instrumental band comes close. They were huge in Japan in the 60s. Treated like true rock stars. Eddie Van Halen, Beach Boys, Beatles, Joe Walsh, Eric Clapton etc all give credit to the Ventures as an influence.
@@michaelasay8587 are you kidding? Name other instrumental bands who have more, for that matter how many other singing bands have sold over 110 million albums?
The Ventures are awesome!! The drummer in the glasses is Max Weinberg of the E Street Band (Bruce Springsteen’s back up band) and the Max Weinberg Seven (Conan O’Brien’s house band)
If you're a drummer and can play this even half way decently, you're pretty dang good. Memories of my father on lead and my bro on drums, good times 🎶🎵
Back in the day they would have a contest to this song. It was really fun. You would dance to the song, and when the drums started you had to move your hips to the drums and when I say move your hips to the drums, your hips had to go as fast as the drum rythmn was. My mother was undefeated for 30 years thru the 60's, 70's and mid 80's. It was so fun everyone would just stop talking and watch her. I lost my mom last year in March and my dad last month. Thanks for the wonderful memory. As always great reaction you guys. I sure do miss you two when you aren't around for a few days.
It was a summer time jam 🌞 I do remember long ago lol sitting on the beach with friends watching the surfers 🏄♀️ so beautiful and perfect until that sudden WIPEOUT!!! 🌊 😭🤭
❤️❤️❤️ THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST “SHAKE YOUR ASS OFF” SONGS EVER RECORDED!!!! ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️⭐️❤️⭐️ HAPPY HOLIDAYS, SHAWN & MEL ☃️🎅🏼🎄⭐️❤️⭐️❤️ ✌🏻🫶🏻🤗 PEACE, LOVE & BIG HUGS ✌🏻🫶🏻🤗 💕WITH LOVE ALWAYS ~ LAURA 💕 ❤️ 🥰❤️ S and M HIT SQUAD IS THE BEST!!! ❤️🥰❤️
The Ventures was one of the bands that Jimi Hendrix enjoyed listening too and thought they were great guitarist , that says a lot to me to hear someone like Jimi saying that about any band and they were a great band especially during the sixties !
My goodness when I first heard this song back in 1962 by, 'The Safaris', I was an 8-year-old boy. In the summer of 1966, at the age of 12, 'The Ventures' will do a cover of it and not miss a beat. I can remember going to Jones Beach and Rockaway beaches in New York and watching the surfer's getting 'Wipeout' by 10-to-20-foot waves. Then listening to this song on the radio while watching them. It was an awesome time to have been young and having fun. Back in the 60's we had the AM Transistor radio we held in the palm of our hand. 'Those Were the Days.'
The original version by the Surfaris was created as a surf song evoking the sensation of surfing rather than as a vehicle for a drum solo. It was based on a previous 1950s song, "Bongo Rock" by Preston Epps.
They really jazzed up that live version. The aboriginal version by the Surfaris, I believe, is so easy to play, I can do it with my feet, and with one hand using two fingers. The first and simplest drum rudiment. R-L-R-L over and over again. RLRRLRLL is a lot more interesting, so they broke open in this version. "Pipeline" was another popular surfing song. I wrote one called "Surfing with Sataniel" a decade or two ago. As a goof, people at concerts in the 70s would shout out "Play Wipe Out", and then later "Play Free Bird". It was a mockery of those ingrates, I think.
Let's not forget Pipeline by the Chantays and all of the Dick Dale & the Deltones songs. Great Surf tunes will never be forgotten! Check out Underwater by The Frogmen.
The Ventures have a surfing song titled "Pipeline", it's a really cool one. My brother would play it on his guitar along with my sister lot back when I was a kid, they were pretty good. Maybe you can AT LEAST consider it.
Hi you Two! Thank you for this reaction! I grew up in a ski resort in Vermont in the 1950s. Once in awhile we would have an assembly in school where we would watch SKI MOVIES, accompanied by songs like this by the Ventures and other groups. What's good for surfers is good for skiers!
Wipeout is a surfing song. Wiping out is the term used when you fall off the surfboard. The Ventures got their start in the late 50's early 60's a totally instrumental group. I think guy playing the guitar while sitting down is the only original member still alive.
I don’t know about playing this song but it sure is hard trying to keep up dancing to it, but I’d have a few drinks when I was young and give it my best shot. Love y’all and keep safe
Shawn & Mel That drummer wearing glasses is Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band fame. He joined with Ventures members reunion special on this song live. Both of you already reacted to his son, Jay Weinberg when Jay joined metal band, Slipknot after their original drummer, Joey Jordison left the band due to health issues. Joey died few years ago.
We use to try to shimmy to this….it’s very hard to stay with it….unless you are in really good shape. Lol! 60 years later….I would be able to shake anything….lol!
Open highway, top down, radio up... telephone poles flyin' by. This song has caused many sets of red and blue lights to appear in your rear view. "Sorry Officer, 'Wipe Out' came on!"
Way back in the day Surf Music was the coolest, the Ventures especially. I recall having a copy of The Ventures Knock Me Out with a gorgeous blonde on the cover. She knocked me out. For any aspiring rock drummer the standard was "Can you play Wipeout?" Then the Beatles came along. And that was that
This is one of the best surf songs ever! The original was done with only one drummer, but he didn't put in as many variations, so this was a pretty good version. In the late 1950s, when Hawaii became the 50th state, Hawaiian things became the rage for awhile, and surfing was a part of that, it just exploded in popularity. And with all those beach parties, surf music exploded right along with it. The Ventures were a big part of that, followed quickly by The Beach Boys and a little later Jan and Dean. I loved Jan and Dean! You should check out their songs "Sidewalk Surfin'" (about early skateboarding when guys had to make their own boards out of old roller skates) and "The Little Old Lady From Pasedena," which I swear could have been about my husband's grandmother! 😁
Oh, and if you're going to react to Christmas songs soon, you might check out the Ventures version of "Sleigh Ride." Great version, with that surf guitar sound. It's been on my Christmas playlist for decades.
The Drummer now commands an Aircraft Carrier in the US Navy. The Ventures were invited ti play on an Aircraft Carrier. The Apologized because their Drummer hadn't arrived yet & they asked If anyone could play the Drums & the Commanded stepped up. What the Crew didn't know that he was the original Drunner.
The drummer seen on the left, wearing glasses also drummed for Bruce Springsteen, his name is Max Weinberg so, this isn't just The Ventures, it's a collaboration of musicians, this must've been on a special event of some kind, still, pretty cool. Awesome reaction!
Shawn and Mel this was one of the best instrumental sounds ever, great reaction best wishes and many thanks for sharing stay safe and well please consider reacting to the shadows Apache 🎧
The Ventures ‘Walk Don’t Run’ was one of the first albums I bought at the beginning of the 60’s. A great instrumental group. Walk Don’t Run was a film starring Carry Grant!
Back in the '60s me and my buddy used to play this song on the lunch bench, him on one side and me on the other. His name was Joey nakagawa. I could still play the drum roll to this day. The original doesn't sound like this though. It was just one drummer and the beat was more solid.
They were big in different countries around the world. America was moving away from their sound by 1966. They continued playing on the world concert circuit.
The young drummer with the glasses is sitting in with the bands legendary drummer. The young guy is Max Weinberg, legendary drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s band. Pretty cool that they invited him to join them on this iconic drum tune! 😉
This is the song that Eddie and big brother Alex Van Halen used in a drum-off with Ed's drum kit, an innocently monumental event which forever changed music history. Ed lost the drum-off and his drum kit to Alex, and got Al's guitar as a consolation prize. The rest is history.
The Band Tool's Danny Carey is known to play this solo with ease. But then again, it is rumored he has 3 sets of arms and is not of this earth as well.
Shawn and Mel, you should react to Duane Eddy, American rock and roll guitarist. Some of his hits are Rebel Rouser, Peter Gunn , Raunchy, Because They're Young, (Dance with The) Guitar Man, The Lonely One and many more.... according to Wikipedia, Eddy has sold 12 million records by 1963. His hit Rebel Rouser is probably his most famous and most played.
As a drummer, I’m here to tell you that this was one of those songs that every drummer worth his weight in salt gave it his all to learn to play… because of the speed of the song it’s not as easy as it looks…. And also always attributed to the world of surfers and beach bums🏝️
Yeah there was only one drummer back then.
The second drummer is Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
It was the audition song for the garage band drummer in my neighborhood.
@@bumperu In-a- Gadda -Divida was the other song us drummers had to play
"not as easy as it looks"
I think you overestimate how easy this looks.
Girls dancing to this song, would always dance the Shimmy, A whole lot of shakin going on,
This was one of the great instrumental bands from the 60's. I had their greatest hits album. Their biggest hit was "Walk, Don't Run". Some of the other songs they also did were "Telstar", "Lonely Bull" & "Hawaii 5-O theme. The group the Surfaris are actually the first ones who recorded "Wipe Out" in 1963. But it was common for groups to play each others songs.
Telstar was done by The Tornados.
Lovely Bull was Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass. I remember it well
That drummer in the green flowered shirt was Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s band.
Growing up so many of us wanted to play the drums because of this song.
Hands down, one the the ALL TIME GREATEST instrumental pieces EVER!!!!!
First recorded in 1963 by “The Surfaris” but this is a great performance.
The Ventures are one of the best selling bands of all time. All guitar players today learned from them. Over 100 albums
@@michaelasay8587 3 top ten hits, 1 was #2. 3 more in top 40. Sold over 110 million albums. That is insane for an all instrumental band. No other instrumental band comes close. They were huge in Japan in the 60s. Treated like true rock stars. Eddie Van Halen, Beach Boys, Beatles, Joe Walsh, Eric Clapton etc all give credit to the Ventures as an influence.
@@michaelasay8587 are you kidding? Name other instrumental bands who have more, for that matter how many other singing bands have sold over 110 million albums?
This was THE song to drum to. You are my new favorite reaction channel.
As a kid, this was the song all drummers wanted to play.
The Ventures are awesome!!
The drummer in the glasses is Max Weinberg of the E Street Band (Bruce Springsteen’s back up band) and the Max Weinberg Seven (Conan O’Brien’s house band)
I use to dance to this song when i was much younger if i tried it now i would break something lol. love the Ventures. awesome reaction.
If you're a drummer and can play this even half way decently, you're pretty dang good. Memories of my father on lead and my bro on drums, good times 🎶🎵
Back in the day they would have a contest to this song. It was really fun. You would dance to the song, and when the drums started you had to move your hips to the drums and when I say move your hips to the drums, your hips had to go as fast as the drum rythmn was. My mother was undefeated for 30 years thru the 60's, 70's and mid 80's. It was so fun everyone would just stop talking and watch her. I lost my mom last year in March and my dad last month. Thanks for the wonderful memory. As always great reaction you guys. I sure do miss you two when you aren't around for a few days.
The birth of "surf rock".
It was a summer time jam 🌞 I do remember long ago lol sitting on the beach with friends watching the surfers 🏄♀️ so beautiful and perfect until that sudden WIPEOUT!!! 🌊 😭🤭
This music is so cool you can't help
but to dance.
SURF'S UP!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🎵🎼🎶🎸🥁🎹🎙🎧
The Ventures knew how to do it! Love your reactions!
I don't even know how many times my brother played their "Best of" album, teaching himself to play guitar and drums.
Please go down this RABBIT HOLE!!! So Many great songs from this group! also try Duane Eddy
❤️❤️❤️ THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST “SHAKE YOUR ASS OFF” SONGS EVER RECORDED!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
❤️⭐️❤️⭐️ HAPPY HOLIDAYS, SHAWN & MEL ☃️🎅🏼🎄⭐️❤️⭐️❤️
✌🏻🫶🏻🤗 PEACE, LOVE & BIG HUGS ✌🏻🫶🏻🤗 💕WITH LOVE ALWAYS ~ LAURA 💕
❤️ 🥰❤️ S and M HIT SQUAD IS THE BEST!!! ❤️🥰❤️
Used to do the shimmie to this lol
@@judyduguay8673 Me too, Judy!! 😁😂🤣
Every drummer has to play this at some point. A signature drum tune.
Their songs are always so much fun!
Loved this when i was a kid, it was so cool!!😃🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Every local rockabilly and/or surf band covered this and it was always a crowd-pleaser that filled the dance floor.
The Ventures was one of the bands that Jimi Hendrix enjoyed listening too and thought they were great guitarist , that says a lot to me to hear someone like Jimi saying that about any band and they were a great band especially during the sixties !
They also did the original Hawaii Five O theme
My goodness when I first heard this song back in 1962 by, 'The Safaris', I was an 8-year-old boy. In the summer of 1966, at the age of 12, 'The Ventures' will do a cover of it and not miss a beat. I can remember going to Jones Beach and Rockaway beaches in New York and watching the surfer's getting 'Wipeout' by 10-to-20-foot waves. Then listening to this song on the radio while watching them. It was an awesome time to have been young and having fun. Back in the 60's we had the AM Transistor radio we held in the palm of our hand. 'Those Were the Days.'
Man I got down to this as a kid in the sixties. Still killer today.🤟🤟
I used to love dancing to this. Booty shaking to the max. 😁
Wow....good memories with this group! I still have their vinyl record album. It's so awesome to hear you guys playing this song. Thanks!!!
An amazing couple you two are...thank you for bringing so many memories back!!
That was cool. I’ve heard this song many times growing up, but this was the first time I’ve seen a video of the song. Very cool.
I remember hearing this for the first time on the radio and thinking after the song ended that the drummer must have needed a nap after that.
The original version by the Surfaris was created as a surf song evoking the sensation of surfing rather than as a vehicle for a drum solo. It was based on a previous 1950s song, "Bongo Rock" by Preston Epps.
When I saw this on tv in the `60`s, there was go-go dancers & a background view of surfers. :)
Love your channel. You make such a cute couple. Love hearing all this music from my generation.
Loved this song when it first came out I still do .
My teen years in California during the Surfin' rage, we sure danced to this on÷.
They really jazzed up that live version. The aboriginal version by the Surfaris, I believe, is so easy to play, I can do it with my feet, and with one hand using two fingers. The first and simplest drum rudiment. R-L-R-L over and over again.
RLRRLRLL is a lot more interesting, so they broke open in this version.
"Pipeline" was another popular surfing song. I wrote one called "Surfing with Sataniel" a decade or two ago.
As a goof, people at concerts in the 70s would shout out "Play Wipe Out", and then later "Play Free Bird". It was a mockery of those ingrates, I think.
Let's not forget Pipeline by the Chantays and all of the Dick Dale & the Deltones songs. Great Surf tunes will never be forgotten! Check out Underwater by The Frogmen.
You should watch the live from Japan 1966 version of this. Mel Taylor is a beast on the drums. Best version ever.
A great oldie ! Havnt heard this in years !!
The drummer on the right playing traditional style that fast is impressive. Never saw the video before. Thanks for posting! 🥁
The Ventures have a surfing song titled "Pipeline", it's a really cool one. My brother would play it on his guitar along with my sister lot back when I was a kid, they were pretty good. Maybe you can AT LEAST consider it.
Hi you Two! Thank you for this reaction! I grew up in a ski resort in Vermont in the 1950s. Once in awhile we would have an assembly in school where we would watch SKI MOVIES, accompanied by songs like this by the Ventures and other groups. What's good for surfers is good for skiers!
I've got a Ventures Xmas album and it is a classic.
All school bands played this to death🤩
Wipeout is a surfing song. Wiping out is the term used when you fall off the surfboard. The Ventures got their start in the late 50's early 60's a totally instrumental group. I think guy playing the guitar while sitting down is the only original member still alive.
Surf's up!
I had this on an ol' 45 when I was a kid. Forgot what the B side was....
I don’t know about playing this song but it sure is hard trying to keep up dancing to it, but I’d have a few drinks when I was young and give it my best shot. Love y’all and keep safe
The second drummer was the band leader for Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Max Weinberg. He also plated drums for Bruce Springsteen.
Shawn & Mel
That drummer wearing glasses is Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band fame. He joined with Ventures members reunion special on this song live. Both of you already reacted to his son, Jay Weinberg when Jay joined metal band, Slipknot after their original drummer, Joey Jordison left the band due to health issues. Joey died few years ago.
They were just kids when they made this, I believe one of them was just 15 years old.
I've been following the drummer that was on the right and I knew you to we're gonna like it
We use to try to shimmy to this….it’s very hard to stay with it….unless you are in really good shape. Lol! 60 years later….I would be able to shake anything….lol!
Open highway, top down, radio up... telephone poles flyin' by. This song has caused many sets of red and blue lights to appear in your rear view. "Sorry Officer, 'Wipe Out' came on!"
Legendary instrumental and the title wipeout refers to a surfer wiping out while surfing!
Way back in the day Surf Music was the coolest, the Ventures especially. I recall having a copy of The Ventures Knock Me Out with a gorgeous blonde on the cover. She knocked me out. For any aspiring rock drummer the standard was "Can you play Wipeout?" Then the Beatles came along. And that was that
We used to do the shimmie to this song amazing and something fun
This is one of the best surf songs ever! The original was done with only one drummer, but he didn't put in as many variations, so this was a pretty good version. In the late 1950s, when Hawaii became the 50th state, Hawaiian things became the rage for awhile, and surfing was a part of that, it just exploded in popularity. And with all those beach parties, surf music exploded right along with it. The Ventures were a big part of that, followed quickly by The Beach Boys and a little later Jan and Dean. I loved Jan and Dean! You should check out their songs "Sidewalk Surfin'" (about early skateboarding when guys had to make their own boards out of old roller skates) and "The Little Old Lady From Pasedena," which I swear could have been about my husband's grandmother! 😁
Oh, and if you're going to react to Christmas songs soon, you might check out the Ventures version of "Sleigh Ride." Great version, with that surf guitar sound. It's been on my Christmas playlist for decades.
In grade school, when this came out, every boy I knew would try to bang pencils on his desk trying to get this right.
I❤60s surf music✌
Have they ever clocked drummers hand/arm motions? My muscles want to tense up just listening to all that effort!
This was a Reunion Special that had the drummer from the E Street Band playing with the original members of the Ventures on this song.
The Drummer now commands an Aircraft Carrier in the US Navy. The Ventures were invited ti play on an Aircraft Carrier. The Apologized because their Drummer hadn't arrived yet & they asked If anyone could play the Drums & the Commanded stepped up. What the Crew didn't know that he was the original Drunner.
For my 13th birthday my dad bought me a drum kit and a few lessons my 2nd of three tunes I had to learn was this one.
The drummer seen on the left, wearing glasses also drummed for Bruce Springsteen, his name is Max Weinberg so, this isn't just The Ventures, it's a collaboration of musicians, this must've been on a special event of some kind, still, pretty cool. Awesome reaction!
Enjoy you so much😊
Shawn and Mel this was one of the best instrumental sounds ever, great reaction best wishes and many thanks for sharing stay safe and well please consider reacting to the shadows Apache 🎧
In the early 70s skating rinks with play that for individuals that wanted to race on the skating floor
Ah, that surf sound!!!!! Right in there with Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, get the woodie fired up
The drummer in the flowered shirt is Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band
The Ventures ‘Walk Don’t Run’ was one of the first albums I bought at the beginning of the 60’s. A great instrumental group. Walk Don’t Run was a film starring Carry Grant!
The drummer is Max Weinberg who plays in Bruce Springsteens band.
This makes me think of surfers.
A version of this was used in movie dirty dancing.
Wipe Out was first recorded by The Surfaris in 1962. Side B of this icon 45 rpm is Surfer Joe. It doesn't get any more 1960's beach music than this!!
Miss all the 🏄 SURFING music.
We almost wore out our drummer playing this instrumental in the band i was in back in 68/69. - .{Dedicated Choice- } Canada.
Back in the '60s me and my buddy used to play this song on the lunch bench, him on one side and me on the other. His name was Joey nakagawa. I could still play the drum roll to this day. The original doesn't sound like this though. It was just one drummer and the beat was more solid.
Yes called 'Beach' music. see 'Beach Boys, Jan and Dean'. This band only did wild and fast instrumental.
I have a few of their albums...one is yellow and the other is light blue...
They did, I believe, play on the theme song to Hawaii Five-O
You want a drum solo. Here hold my beer.
They were big in different countries around the world. America was moving away from their sound by 1966. They continued playing on the world concert circuit.
used to do this on my desk in jr high
The young drummer with the glasses is sitting in with the bands legendary drummer. The young guy is Max Weinberg, legendary drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s band. Pretty cool that they invited him to join them on this iconic drum tune! 😉
Bassist tearing it up as well
This is the song that Eddie and big brother Alex Van Halen used in a drum-off with Ed's drum kit, an innocently monumental event which forever changed music history.
Ed lost the drum-off and his drum kit to Alex, and got Al's guitar as a consolation prize.
The rest is history.
The Band Tool's Danny Carey is known to play this solo with ease. But then again, it is rumored he has 3 sets of arms and is not of this earth as well.
Loved the Mosrite guitar
Sorry but Ron Wilson of the Surfaris was the drummer who really made this song rock.
Wow cool not sure I’ve seen that b4
But remember tapping that beat out on my school desk with pencils
The teach didn’t care for it
Walk, don’t run,… Hawaii 5-0, are my favorite songs
Adventures they are definitely cool
NEXT Sandy Nelson, Let There Be Drums.
Shawn and Mel go surfin'!
Shawn and Mel, you should react to Duane Eddy, American rock and roll guitarist. Some of his hits are Rebel Rouser, Peter Gunn , Raunchy, Because They're Young, (Dance with The) Guitar Man, The Lonely One and many more.... according to Wikipedia, Eddy has sold 12 million records by 1963. His hit Rebel Rouser is probably his most famous and most played.