Nokie Edwards, whose virtuosic electric guitar playing helped define the surf-rock style of the Ventures, the immensely popular instrumental band that rose to prominence in the 1960s, died Monday in ...

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Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the instrumental guitar band The Ventures, has died. He was 88. Wilson died Saturday in Tacoma of natural causes, surrounded by his four children, The ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the instrumental guitar band The Ventures, has died. He was 88. Wilson died Saturday in Tacoma of natural causes, surrounded by his four ...

A piece of rock and roll history has an Oklahoma connection. A guitar played by Nokie Edwards is being preserved in a vault at the Oklahoma Museum of Pop Culture (OKPOP). Edwards born in Lahoma, ...

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Guitarist Don Wilson has died at the age of 88. He co-founded the 1960s surf-rock group known as The Ventures. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: At age 24, Wilson met Bob Bogle in Tacoma, Wash. They started ...