Having completed their annual summer tour of Japan, with 40 sold-out and near sold-out concerts, The Ventures have returned home to the U.S. The line-up for this tour was Don Wilson (rhythm guitar), Bob Spalding (bass guitar and lead guitar) , Gerry McGee (lead guitar, bass guitar, sitar, acoustic guitar) and Leon Taylor (drums).

The set list (with occasional changes for some shows) was as follows:

1st set:
Gerry McGee’s lead set:
The Cruel Sea
Yozora No Hoshi
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
*Bondolero
*Ginza Lights (Futari no Ginza)
*Kyoto Doll (Kyoto no Koi) / Paint It Black medley (Gerry on sitar)
Put Your Hand in the Hand (from new Rocky CD)
Sea Cruise – Vocal – Don Wilson
What’d I Say – Vocal – Gerry McGee
Driving Guitars
Penetration
Walk Don’t Run ‘64
Wipeout

2nd set:
Acoustic set:
Tequila
*Ame no Midosuji / *Kyoto Bojo (Strangers in Midosuji / Reflections in a Palace Lake)
*Hokkaido Skies (Kitagune no Aoi Zora)
Classical Gas

Bob Spalding’s lead set:
Walk Don’t Run medley
(Walk Don’t Run / Perfidia / Lullaby of the Leaves / Walk Don’t Run)
Wailin’
*Surf Rider (as featured in “Pulp Fiction”)
Hurricane
*Blue Dawn

Gerry McGee lead set:
Manchurian Beat
Time Won’t Let Me – Vocal – Leon Taylor
House of The Rising Sun
Hawaii Five-O
Pipeline
Diamond Head 2007