Nokie Edwards is an American guitarist best known for his work with The Ventures during the periods 1960-61; 1962-68; 1974-84; 1989-92. He has left and re-joined The Ventures four times, in the intervening periods he has bred race horses, worked as a Nashville session musician and as an actor.

Jeff Baxter has had an interesting career so far, working as a guitarist in the late sixties, joining Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers in the 1970s and lately as a session player and consultant to the defense industry and US government.