Perfidia (the Ventures version) performed by Bruce Welch's Shadows.

[@derekstocker6661]

Big thanks to Bruce and the guys, wow what a great live performance with some comedy thrown in, absolutely brilliant, love this!

[@chrisrw0]

This is absolutely my teenage era! I was a great fan of The Ventures at school, possibly the only one! First, I bought Walk Don't Run - what a great sound! - then, of course, Perfidia, Blue Moon, etc. We all loved The Shadows as well - and I also bought their singles from Apache onwards. (I still have all my 45s.) To this day, apart from people who were inspired to play guitar by The Ventures, few have ever heard of them, let alone know that they're the world's all-time best selling guitar instrumental group - sadly all now passed away. Well done to Bruce for his tribute. The two groups the backdrop to my teenage musical years.

[@billyrocca9029]

Bruce Welsh is probably one of the best rhythm guitarists in classic rock ever! And what an entertainer too!

[@petarrazovicmusicchannel460]

A agreee, First Bruce, second Tom Fogerty and then a big gap and the rest. One of the better shadows style rhythm guitarists was the Croatian player Rudi Šimunec from Crveni koralji Zagreb

[@terryaudan8163]

Lively and nostalgic, evergreen appeal!

[@cliffworks748]

Ventures arranged my first gig in Japan in the 70's and I'm still here thanks guys ! RIP everyone - Don is still with us but retired on his 54th Japan tour a few years ago. The band still tours played 35 shows here 2 years ago.

[@777skeleton]

I love both versions. They both were outstanding groups.

[@wstagner]

for sure

[@wstagner]

The Ventures and Shadows are instrumental bands with very different backgrounds and styles. Both were responsible, in large part, for inspiring many of today's great guitarists wanting to learn to play.

[@michaelfernando523]

That impeccable Bruce Welch Humor.

[@glorialobigas1742]

Brilliant, never tire listening to this, as if Cliff is singing.

[@fenderbassix]

A star performance by experts who know their stuff. I could listen to this live music for the next decade and more. JohnH

[@maureensamson4863]

Thanks for sharing this old favourite !

[@pampusscat4513]

Love the shadows version of Perdidia

[@arttafil6792]

This is a great rendition!!!

[@jeffjordan3806]

Fantastic!!!

[@JohnUSA7]

It is amazing how music and beat arrangements either make or break a song.

[@mikeappignani4383]

All in that was wonderful ❤

[@martybeingessner5017]

Loved it !!!!. Let's face it (shit happens)!. As a musician anything can happen to your gear unexpectedly !. These guys made the crowd laugh with them instead of freaking out & making the crowd nervous for them (well done)!!!!.

[@perseus-tx3zq]

How to make a success of disaster. If only politicians had that talent. Wonderful.

[@riavanderpol2420]

Amazing

[@irish1616]

Bruce, We love you in the US. Come out of retirement and come visit us! Also, you have to publish a book of the rhythm chords for your songs.... wouldn't you..... Could you? At least consider it as a request from one of your biggest fans.

[@mikeyhall6091]

Bruce is one great rhythm guitarist.

[@jcpjean-claude4446]

the best !!!

[@nokie2]

Too funny! Great rapport during technical difficulties. Ultimately a nice version of the tune.

[@michaelfernando523]

1 9 6 2------------------------from ''Out of the Shadows'' album with Brian Licorice Locking on Bass (RIP).

[@anthonysleight9244]

This is Alan Jones on bass, he played with the Shadows, and retired from gigs last year

[@davidcrosswell1980]

Jet Harris played Bass Guitar on the recording although the cover of “Out Of The Shadows” does show Brian ‘Licorice’ Locking, Jet played on the majority of the tracks on this album.

[@raydiaz5830]

Phil rocked it!

[@47longman]

The Shadows version showed real class, with Brian's little breaks.

[@jazzmean37]

A good Perfidia instrumental and funny entertainer I loved it!! :))

[@klatschreporter1]

My First Single was long tall Sally by the fab 4 and my Second one was perfides by the shadows

[@sircurtisseretse3297]

Black and white 1940s film would have been Casablanca. I remember Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman were dancing to it during one of the pre-war Parisian scenes.

[@RiojaRoj]

Utterly Brill !

[@ianbaxter8299]

The same thing happened to Hank when our little local band went to watch the original Shads at the East Ham Granada in the 60s. The tape broke on his Vox " long tom " echo-box, but there was such a slap-back echo in there (I know, we played there), that probably nobody in the audience that wasn't a gear-freak really noticed. We'd so looked forward to hearing the famous Vox/Meazzi " stunt incidentals" sound live, but in the end, the group's tremendous performance made that unimportant, they just surfed the house. ambience. Chet Atkins was right, it's the man that makes the sound, the gear doesn't play itself.

[@wstagner]

Ian Baxter Great comment, Ian. I love hearing stories like this. The onstage banter by Bruce, in this case, is priceless. :-)

[@gautamde9439]

You're spot on, my friend 😊

[@johnthreadingham8493]

That's great

[@JeanphilippeditJP]

Really Good !

[@cjm52]

The greatest version ever.

[@htunkyaw8589]

o ilove

[@ping-manwong5704]

👏👏👏👍👍👍🙏🙏

[@wstagner]

Agreed. Bruce is a fun E guy. The Ventures shooda dun mora this kinda stuff. Don't think they ever even mention the Shads or any 1 they "ran into" anywhere.

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

I can't work out if you're trying to be funny... or you're just plain illiterate. Write properly please.

[@jenhasegawa5553]

INTERESTING/ENJ☺YABLE！✌ THANK Y♡u✌

[@wstagner]

In fact it never looked to me like the Ventures were havin a good tyme onstage.

[@richardmiller3551]

Hey Walt, 195k views. Time to post the Nokie/Billie video’s from New Holstein, Wi.

[@wstagner]

why?

[@richardmiller3551]

@@wstagner why not. People want to watch Nokie playing guitar.

[@wstagner]

rite. not us....just him

[@JohnUSA7]

If you just want to hear Perfidia without the jokes jump to 4:25. Bruce is so right....The Ventures' version of Perfidia is a lot better than the Shadows' cha-cha version.

[@gio2974]

4:25 Finally begin...

[@alexmclife2261]

Shadows version is more soothing and ventures is more of a rock

[@JohnUSA7]

I miss these two great groups.....The Shadows and The Ventures. Who is ever going to replace them?

[@wstagner]

luckily there are many great Shads cover bands in Europe and just as many Ventures cover bands in Japan. There are a few bands here, including my own: facebook.com/bongostraits here in the USA.

[@steves1588]

There is nothing worse than equipment failure...so hard to recover in front of a crowd.

[@fightbacktohealth9625]

"Fish make love in water"... W C Fields

[@arttafil6792]

When you guys quit playing, the world will be a much worse place

[@gautamde9439]

Both were total misfits regarding adopting themselves with the sound of the 70's

[@ertanozmerdan3634]

Much better than the Ventures and Shadows versions. 👏🏻🥇👏🏻

[@justoortiz2667]

Enrolou.demorou

[@stevenbond9201]

Dummy.Of course, it had a Latin rhythm. It's a Mexican song. Cugat was one of the first to chart the instrumental version in 1940. Desi Arnaz scored in '41 with the Spanish lyrics in a movie.

[@canarsie56]

No Hank, no Shadows

[@mytran2135]

Listen to this I think Hank is the best

[@cjm5212]

Really !

[@gautamde9439]

All that both of them did was uptill 1967 after that both their popularity was waneing & diminishing pretty fast 😂😂

[@gautamde9439]

Both of them played other people's song, just doin' that you can't sustain yourself & everybody was more keen to listen to the original songs rather than remakes.Both of them had hardly any compositions of their own and couldn't find a permanent lead singer

[@albertvanprehn5534]

what a mess, they make a joke of it but they are far more less in guitartechniqie then the ventures.

[@wstagner]

Hi, Al...nice to hear from you. The shads were a very different band with entirely different roots than The Ventures. I enjoy & appreciate both bands. We could have a deep chat about this sometime, if you like. I still watch the DVD you guys did with Nokie and the CD you recorded is great too. Are you still playin w/your band?

[@ernestogalura97]

Bruce Welch is famous for talking too much.

[@gautamde9439]

I'd advise all to listen to the version of 'The Ventures' version of this track 'Perfidia' 1965. You will get to know who's better

[@mitchgawlik1175]

My gosh, what an utter waste of time. Go and listen to the Ventures' version instead. You do have the record, don't you?

[@meerkatandpug]

Bruce..please retire.

[@Elvis-dw7ux]

Sounds awful mate!!!

[@gautamde9439]

Having said all this both the bands couldn't adopt themselves with the sound of the 70's & became very much irrelevant 😢😢😢😢