Don Wilson's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades

In the record

Donald Leroy Wilson (February 10, 1933 – January 22, 2022) was an American guitarist who, with Bob Bogle, was a founding member of the instrumental surf-rock group the Ventures. The birth-card coordinate for February 10 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2008 Performers with The Ventures induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2008 Performers — inducted member of The Ventures

The 2 of Spades coordinate

Don Wilson's birthday maps to the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical Partner). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Don Wilson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

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Don Wilson in the public record

In 2008, Wilson and other members of the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Performer category. Wilson was the last surviving member of the classic lineup of the Ventures following the death of Nokie Edwards in 2018, before Wilson's own death in January 2022. Wilson was born in Tacoma, Washington and was a middle child. The family heritage is mixed, his mother, Josie, was first-generation Swedish, while his father was of Welsh and Irish descent. His mother would show him how to play chords on the tiple when he was around 12 years old. In 1958, Wilson and Bob Bogle met Nokie Edwards and they invited him to be a member of the group. Originally Edwards played bass, but later played lead guitar with Bogle switching to bass. In 1960, Wilson's mother, Josie, encouraged them to record a cover of Chet Atkins' instrumental version of Johnny Smith's composition "Walk, Don't Run".

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Don Wilson (musician) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 2♠, K♣, 6♠, 8♦, 7♣, Q♠, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

1. Unable to play his finger-style version, they re-arranged it in their own style.
2. The lineup at the time consisted of Wilson, Bogle, Edwards and Skip Moore, later replaced by Howie Johnson (drums), before Johnson was replaced with Mel Taylor, however on "Walk-Dont Run" and the B side "Home", Skip Moore,a local drummer played drums.
3. "Walk, Don't Run" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and has been described as what "started a whole new movement in rock & roll" by John Fogerty.
4. The Ventures' song "Wild Child" was sampled by the Wiseguys on "Start the Commotion", giving Wilson his only hit writing credit on the British charts, reaching number 47 and spending 2 weeks on the chart.

Other inductees with this card

• Charlie Watts — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
• Cliff Burton — 2009 Performers with Metallica
• Cynthia Robinson — 1993 Performers with Sly and the Family Stone
• Jackie Jackson — 1997 Performers with The Jackson 5
• Jimmy Merchant — 1993 Performers with Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
• Johnny Carter — 2001 Performers with The Flamingos; 2004 Performers with The Dells
• Mike Dirnt — 2015 Performers with Green Day
• Raekwon — 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan
• Randy Meisner — 1998 Performers with Eagles
• Ruth Brown — 1993 Performers
• Zack de la Rocha — 2023 Performers with Rage Against the Machine

FAQ

What is Don Wilson's birth card?

The 2 of Spades. February 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Don Wilson's dates come from?

Birth date 1933-02-10 is the day-precision date on Don Wilson's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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