The Ventures - Tequila with Jeff Baxter

[@Ironlakgrafff]

What a guitar maniac. Jeff Baxter is a legend

[@donnaoberlin915]

He's a beast, and such an amazing musician/guitarist!

[@gregschulze5906]

Holy moly Skunk is on fire. We love ya big guy. Changed the world !!

[@machtschnell7452]

What a gem. Skunk with the Ventures. I never knew about this before.

[@timothyproksch2915]

I’m 67 when I was a kid my parents had this album of the ventures and I listened to it over and over there was nothing like it still isn’t

[@Porscheman1]

The Ventures were part of my early childhood. Good memories

[@godfreydaniel6278]

Baxter KILLS it! He's SO damn good, and almost no one gets into it like he does! I've seen him play - it's mesmerizing...

[@Breakbeats92.5]

He plays with and almost childlike exuberance. Always energetic, inventive, playful and tasteful.

[@gaylenhalbert4391]

Yes. Get his new album------ Skunk Baxter/Speed of Heart. It is awesome.

[@stevenward3664]

​@@gaylenhalbert4391Speed of Heat.

[@gaylenhalbert4391]

Yes. Thank you.@@stevenward3664

[@captainu.s.a.7980]

This has to be hands down .The best version of Tequila ,I have ever heard.Always liked this song..Blown away..the sounds the drummer makes are spot on...

[@OFLHLGZ28]

Love this! Love Skunk. This is priceless!

[@michaelshifflett76]

You can FEEEL his joy in playing with these guys!

[@donrutter6765]

Man, Skunk really got into his playing dancing and moving around back in the day. 😁

[@captainu.s.a.7980]

Everybody back then was involved with coca-cola.powder.When Skunk did his interview about the ventures.He(alledgedly) caught a drip...

[@sammysouth8372]

nobody in this video not the ventures nor jeff baxter is underrated. give it up

[@2a1rg]

Words can not describe the excellence of this song & band.

[@chriskalo3067]

Rest in piece Don!

[@Ram-by2gz]

These guys are really having fun and it sounds really good

[@hypotheticalpineapple]

skunk is really on fire in this one!

[@swedeecklund1933]

absolutely awesome ❤

[@davidkelly392]

My first double album was "Play along with the Ventures" - you could play bass, rhythm or lead guitar by playing along with tracks that were recorded without the guitar part you wanted to play....so it was like being on the record itself!

[@andyhampsten4252]

Baxter, legend. Refreshing playi by the lead.

[@AlanVonGoodleef]

I listened to these guys when I was 10 years old. I'm now 51 and they there are as good as ever.

[@genelyda1102]

I was about the same age and now I am 70 and still love it ❤

[@aliensarereal7832]

That dude has been sitting in a chair doing concerts from the beginning. Luv it!

[@dougj7295]

I love that Skunk is defense weapons specialist advisor for NASA and the govt. He is genius in more ways than one.

[@tip436]

u got that rite sir. seen him this am. effin' awesome

[@sardu55]

He's right about AI. That's all I see today, and plans for its implementation coming real soon.

[@nmerali]

Tequila tutorial

[@gregschulze5906]

Truest a gem. Wish I could display this spirit in my playing … skink should be on everyone’s list of OMG

[@jmdurant2000]

There is no song more fun to play than Tequila

[@andresigu]

Taquila! Jeff Baxter es un genio con su guitarra!

[@jerryc8096]

This is the most entertaining version I have heard!

[@sammysouth8372]

skunk is so permanently and effortlessly kool!

[@jyotinarayanprasad5584]

Iuse to stop listening western music from last 1/2years. Now here in 2020 iagain ready to blast my own ears and my neighborhood ears. Venture is will and always be...my favorite.

[@mikeduggincom]

Western music? Oh I get it C&W, unless you’re a musical snob. Your favorite eastern? Southern? Northern? Enough

[@zwastiunburzy3688]

The Skunkman rippin' it out on the Stool of Doom!

[@borgullet3376]

Best Thing I've seen since the Takin' It To The Streets Solo he Ripped on SNL back in the day

[@stuarthightower418]

The majority of the LP's we played on or Hi-Fi were The Venture's. Dad liked instrumentals because his hearing was such hat he couldn't understand vocals.

[@HopeIanHope]

Brilliant

[@daveschaefer-author1097]

I am so depressed. This viseo makes me realize I will NEVER BE AS COOL AS SKUNK!!!

[@Breakbeats92.5]

I want this stuff in my collection. I don't want it on I tunes, and I'm not going to stream it. I want it on vinyl.

[@browning1025]

This is so cool, Skunk shredding

[@daviddubery1741]

Jeff Baxter for President...

[@woodystemms3799]

Not likely. He was stung, badly, when some well meaning political operatives floated his name as running for Congress over a decade ago. They didn't bother to ask him about it first. He wasn't happy when he found out. It's doubtful that he has political aspirations, though he probably still does Pentagon related work and has high level security clearances.

[@thetube237]

You will never sound like the original, I love the original sound. I am from Finland.

[@skyehorvath9063]

The ventures are the original. They just chose to allow guitar legend to play with them.

[@larrypower8659]

@@skyehorvath9063 The Champs recorded the original “Tequila,” not The Ventures. They just covered it.

[@justicegusting2476]

Gold

[@mikegordon8178]

Skunk is a very interesting person, and in my top five favorite guitarists. In no particular ranking with Zappa and son, Junior Brown, Alvin Lee, Dickie Betts.

[@kb6kgx]

Bob's son, Paul, was a classmate of mine in high school.

[@brigdrsurendermohansharma3031]

Old time favourite

[@luisaugustozoia3589]

Demais, demais!!!

[@anthonylennen4067]

Unbelievable

[@LAND727]

Ｊeff skunk baxterがテクの無いギタリストかね？のっけからビックリさせるが、アッパレな動画作品に仕上がっている。Ｕｐ有り難うございます。最高だ！ベンチャーズのキャラバン５０になってコピーしたけど、なかなかのもので、たぶん一生掛かっても出来ないと思う部分が数箇所ある。５０％のスピードで再生するとリズムも感情表現もしっかりしている。ノーキーは化け物だ！神技だ。

[@johnnovack6168]

schweet. we used to play that. i did the vocal, but changed the lyric to “ammonia”.

[@jaykay6387]

"The Skunk" employed some very similar, incendiary licks in Steely Dan's classic "Bodhisattva".

[@doug666doug]

@pete1729 the bass player is the late Great Bob Bogle

[@captainu.s.a.7980]

When Skunk plays it makes Nokie smile...

[@TheMourningBlade]

How many shots of Tequila he had, Jeff Baxter:)

[@long_strange_trip5959]

Chick doin the Peanuts dance at the beginning hahaha!!

[@10995]

Close, but that is the late Great Mel Taylor

[@SuperStrik9]

When you google "fun" this video is at the top of the first page.

[@dannyroberts8259]

Jeff,skunk is real good!

[@sammedhi7158]

Bob Bogle is so dynamite on bass!!

[@lex3729]

Just a gig for Skunk, his real job is as a weapons consultant for the Pentagram.

[@fairalways]

GO SKUNK!

[@tefenstrat]

Jeff is obviously having a blast playing with his childhood hero's. Something people my not know about Jeff, he is a true genius. The U.S. military hired him to design new types of weapons for them. We are talking abut a guy who has no formal training / no education in that area of expertise at all.\\ None! Its a bizarre story that is hard to even believe but its true. I guess for me I have a tough time with it because here is this guy who is a smoking guitarist and seems to be someone that on his appearance is this laid back pot smoking hippie for the 70s.....but then I guess you just never know..... BTW I do love and always will love the Ventures!

[@pete1729]

right about 2:19 the bass player, watching baxter, says wow.

[@catherinelynnfraser2001]

Skunk and Carlos Santana would be a dream team

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

I freakin' love Jeff Baxter, what's his thing with sitting down live though?

[@HarleQuinnZappa]

From what I understand, he Likes the angle it gives him when hes playing, (clearly not a *very technical way of explaining) , but somewhat the same as Robert Fripp plays sitting .

[@richardgray8593]

Somebody asked him that on an interview. Before Steely Dan, he was employed in a famous NYC music store working on Andrés Segovia guitar while Segovia was waiting on a couch in the showroom. Segovia made a somewhat negative remark about some guys trying out guitars while standing, so Baxter took that as expert advice that he should sit.

[@axandio]

@@richardgray8593 Yep saw that interview from the dude from rock and roll hall of fame. pt 1 here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqvThYxoZbl_apY

[@redkellyre6568]

GOD ALMIGHTY

[@sserpent21]

Why all this about Skunk sitting down? So is the other guy on the end.

[@tomthefunky]

@doug666doug: And instead of shouting "Tequila" he should have yelled SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!! or I'M OUT OF ORDER, NO YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER!! or OOOOAAAHHHH!!

[@doug666doug]

@tomthefunky very funky tom

[@dilseygirl]

I am writing in Skunk for President......anti-establishment candidate!

[@danielhutchins4130]

Umm, is that Hughie Thomasson playing to the left of the Skunk?

[@OffRoader1287]

Nokie Edwards.....

[@danielhutchins4130]

Roger that

[@djmammo9826]

Isn't this song by The Champs?

[@doug666doug]

and I believe that's Al Pacino on drumset

[@grovercleveland2143]

Wrong, Mel Taylors son.

[@losttango]

I thought it was the guy who played Manolito in “The High Chaparral”....

[@losttango]

Henry Darrow.... 😉

[@kenvelickoff4275]

Plus Jeff works for the government

[@TheMafrand]

Skunk = the coolest dude around

[@lawnmyster]

Most of the guitar work seemed to be done by Nokie Edwards. Just sayin...........

[@spotmaticfanatic]

Shame that Jeff Baxter can't ever actually stand up when he's on stage.

[@Larrymh07]

Sometimes he gets up and jumps around a bit.

[@1mrmerced]

When one is that good, he can play fast on his back as far as I'm concerned. I just wanna hear him.

[@axandio]

You want a Broadway show go see KISS. :D

[@SharkMinnow]

Why is he sitting down?? So lazy...

[@larrysilsbee7827]

the original version is better. ventures were a cover band - nothing original.

[@tommytomorrow2219]

Baxter is a good guitar player, but what a total goof. Best kept in the studio & out of sight. And the less said about his flatulence nick name, the better.

[@aleksrosenberg]

Thanks. The entire special "The Ventures - 30 Years of Rock-N-Roll" is available through Universal Music Japan. Enjoy. Aleks

[@charleswesley9907]

The Japanese immortalized the Ventures music . They make some of the best guitars in the world. My first guitar was from Japan.

[@aleksrosenberg]

Yes. I agree.