Title: The Ventures
Content:  Their commercial fortunes in the US declined sharply in the early 1970s due to changing musical trends. In the late 1970s and into the 1980s, a resurgence of interest in surf music led to some in the punk/new wave audience rediscovering the band. The Go-Go's wrote "Surfin' And Spyin'" and dedicated it to the Ventures. The Ventures recorded their own version and continue occasionally to perform the song. Their career again rejuvenated by Quentin Tarantino's use of the Lively Ones' version of Nokie Edwards' "Surf Rider" and several other classic surf songs in the soundtrack of the hit movie Pulp Fiction. The Ventures became one of the most popular groups worldwide thanks in large part to their instrumental approach—there were no language barriers to overcome. The Ventures are still the most popular American rock group in Japan, the world's second largest record market. One oft-quoted statistic is that the Ventures outsold the Beatles 2-to-1 in Japan. They produced dozens of albums exclusively for the Japanese and European markets, and have regularly toured Japan from the 1960s through to the present. According to a January 1966 Billboard Magazine article, the Ventures had five of 1965's top 10 singles in Japan.
Title: The Ventures
Content:  The Ventures were among the first rock acts able to sell albums based on a style and sound without needing hit singles on the albums. These albums are also some of the earliest examples of the concept album in rock music. Many of the Ventures' albums, starting with Colorful Ventures in 1961, were organized according to a central theme. While they predated the advent of the terms surf guitar and surf rock, and they do not consider themselves a surf rock group, they were a major building block of surf music, if not the first to play the style. Guitar Player, in an article titled "20 
Title: The Ventures in Space
Content:  The Ventures in Space is an LP album by the guitar-based instrumental group the Ventures, released in 1964. Information on its jacket states that "All of these unusual & other-worldly sounds have been created with musical instruments rather than electronic gimmicks". It was one of the first albums on which the group played the new Mosrite brand guitars instead of their traditional Fender instruments. The album was released in 1964 on the Dolton label, and reissued in the late 1970s by Pickwick Records (with a new cover depicting an astronaut performing a spacewalk).
Title: The Ventures a Go-Go
Content:  The Ventures a Go-Go is the seventeenth studio album by the band The Ventures; released in 1965 on Dolton Records BST 8037 (stereo) and BLP 2037 (monaural). It consists mostly of instrumental covers of popular tunes from the late 50s and early 60s, with a few original compositions. It was on the charts for 35 weeks and it peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200. This album was the fourth highest charting album that The Ventures released.
Title: Twist with the Ventures
Content:  Twist with the Ventures is the fifth studio album by the band The Ventures; released in 1962 on Dolton Records BST 8010 (stereo) and BLP 2010 (monaural). It consists mostly of instrumental versions of popular dance tunes from the late 1950s to early 1960s, with a couple of original compositions. It was on the charts for 29 weeks and it peaked at # 24 on the Billboard 200. It was later retitled Dance! with new album cover. During the recording of this album, original drummer Howie Johnson left the band and was replaced by Mel Taylor, thus forming the classic Ventures lineup. Therefore, the drum credit(s) are shared on this album between both Johnson and Taylor.
Title: The Ventures discography
Content:  Guitar, Vols. 1 & 2 ; (1997) Rock and Roll Forever / Now Playing ; (1997) Swamp Rock / Hawaii Five-O ; (1997) TV Themes / Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures ; (1997) The Fabulous Ventures / The Ventures a Go-Go ; (1997) The Ventures ; (1997) Ventures on Stage / Surfing ; (1997) Wild Things! / Fabulous Ventures ; (1998) Classic 60's Themes ; (1998) EP Collection, Vol. 3 ; (1998) Back to Back (7 out of 14 tracks) [w/The Shadows.] ; (1998) Horse / New Testament ; (1998) On Stage Encore / The Ventures Live, Again! ; (1998) 
Title: The Ventures
Content:  Rock Albums", cited elements of their 1960 Walk, Don't Run album which presaged the coming surf trend. The theme music of the television show Hawaii Five-O continues to be popular. The tune was composed by Morton Stevens, who also composed numerous episode scores. The theme was recorded by the Ventures, whose version reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. Because of the tempo of the music, the theme gained popularity in the UK with followers of Northern soul and was popular on dance floors in the 1970s. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that the Ventures "served as a prototype for guitar-based rock groups."
Title: The Ventures discography
Content:  (1996) Best of Pops Sounds / Go with the Ventures ; (1996) Flights of Fantasy / The Ventures in Space ; (1996) Flights of Fantasy / Underground Fire ; (1996) Go With the Ventures! / Batman Theme ; (1996) Greatest Hits ; (1996) Hawaii Five-O / Swamp Rock ; (1996) Joy! The Ventures Play the Classics / Latin Album ; (1996) Mashed Potatoes and Gravy / Going to the Ventures Dance Party! ; (1996) Super Psychedelics / $1,000,000 Weekend ; (1996) Surfing / Colorful Ventures ; (1996) Tele-Ventures: The Ventures Perform the Great TV Themes ; (1996) Underground Fire / 
Title: The Ventures discography
Content: (1965) The Ventures in Japan ; (1965) The Ventures in Japan, Vol. 2 ; (June 1965) The Ventures On Stage (BB #27, CB #19) -- Dolton BLP 8035/BST 8035 ; (1966) All About the Ventures ; (1967) The Ventures on Stage Encore ; (1968) The Ventures Live, Again! ; (1968) The Ventures in Tokyo '68 ; (1970) Live! The Ventures ; (1971) Pops in Japan '71 ; (1971) The Ventures on Stage '71 ; (1972) The Ventures on Stage '72 ; (1973) Pops in Japan '73 ; (1973) The Ventures on Stage '73 ; (1974) The Ventures Special '74 on Japanese Tour ; (1974) The Ventures on 
Title: The Ventures
Content:  The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band, formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle. The band, a quartet for most of its existence, helped to popularize the electric guitar in the United States and across the world during the 1960s. While their popularity in the United States waned in the 1970s, the group remains especially revered in Japan, where they tour regularly to this day. The classic lineup of the band consisted of Wilson (rhythm guitar), Bogle (initially lead guitar, switched to bass), Nokie Edwards (initially bass, switched to lead guitar), and Mel Taylor (drums). Their first wide-release single, "Walk, Don't Run", brought international fame to the group, and is often cited as one of the top songs ever recorded for guitar. In the 1960s and early 1970s, 38 of the 

Question: What genre is The Ventures?
Answer: instrumental rock.