Bob Bogle, whose lead-guitar work with '60s surf-rock pioneers The Ventures [ tickets ] influenced countless bands to come, has died at the age of 75.

Bogle died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Vancouver, WA, according to his longtime bandmate, Don Wilson.

Wilson and Bogle founded the group in 1958 after both learned to play guitar while they worked as construction workers in their native Tacoma, WA. "We had a lot of time on our hands after work, so we'd get together and play," Wilson told CNN. "A year and a half later, we had a number two hit called 'Walk Don't Run.'" The group originally discovered the song on a Chet Atkins record and applied their own rapidly developing formula to the song, featuring a stripped-down, high-energy approach that became typical for the band in the years to come.

Hits followed in rapid succession after the band's initial breakthrough with "Walk Don't Run," including "Perfidia," "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" and "Walk Don't Run '64," all of which found their way onto the Top 40.

After enduring a commercial slump in the mid-'60s, the group rebounded with the theme for the hit TV show "Hawaii Five-O" in 1968, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard singles chart.

Aside from success as a singles band, the group pumped out a seemingly endless series of hit LPs, with 38 of the band's studio sets entering The Billboard 200 chart, albums that spanned a wide variety of genres, from Christmas songs to country and western. In 1972, the group scored its final entry on The Billboard 200 with its version of the music from the movie "Shaft."

According to The Ventures' bio, the group sold more than 110 million albums worldwide, ranking the band as the best-selling instrumental group of all time. The Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.

Bogle was given his diagnosis more than a decade ago, Wilson told CNN.

"His doctors gave him 10 years to live, and he lived 12. The last two years were really tough. At least he lived to know The Ventures had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

Bogle is survived by his wife, Yumi.