Preceding the Ventures (an all-time favorite) was a duo called Santo and Johnnie, the ones who first recorded Sleepwalk, one of the tunes that was influential in making me decide to play guitar.

One played a hollow-body and the other played a double-neck non-pedal steel on legs.

Years later, I took the guts from a C-3, added a two neck steel where the third keyboard would be and had the thing finished in a beautiful custom Ivory cabinet.

How's that for completely ruining the resale value of a Hammond (LOL)!

The Ventures were GREAT and started a whole lot of us on the road to professional musicianship. I particularly liked to play the Ventures hit, "Lullaby of the Leaves".


GOOD FIND, Tony,


Russ (Ventures wanabe) Russ