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i-b-goB

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Nutty
Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 17, 2019 - 06:27pm PT

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https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/dick-dale-king-surf-guitar-dies-81-n984246
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 17, 2019 - 06:38pm PT
The King is dead! Long live the king, of Surf Guitar!
zBrown

Ice climber
Mar 17, 2019 - 06:54pm PT
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2607974&msg=3183487#msg3183487


http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2789036&msg=3183490#msg3183490



He was very ill but kept touring


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5yihbCtpt6Y
mynameismud

climber
backseat
Mar 17, 2019 - 07:02pm PT
Dick Dale was amazing.
Listen in tribute
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 17, 2019 - 07:23pm PT
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http://www.dickdale.com/history.html
The minute Dale picked up the guitar, Leo Fender broke into uncontrolled laughter and disbelief, he was watching Dale play a right handed guitar upside down and backwards, Dale was playing a right handed guitar left handed and changing the chords in his head then transposing the chords to his hands.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Mar 17, 2019 - 08:48pm PT
Not many can lay claim to creating a sound.
zBrown

Ice climber
Mar 17, 2019 - 10:20pm PT
Mr. Dale was almost as well known for breaking those heavy duty guitar strings as he was for "surfmusic"


He’ll happily take credit for making rock and roll as loud as it’s become, too, with all those amp developments, which he says was necessary to overcome the muffling when 4,000 surfers would crowd into a Huntington Beach ballroom to hear him in the early ‘60s. "That’s why they call me the father of heavy metal: I’m creating all of that power. I was playing with 60-gage strings on my guitar, too; where people were playing 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-gage strings, mine started off with 16, 18, 20, and then 39, 49, and 60-gage." In other words, you could practically hang the Golden Gate Bridge with the broken strings from one of Dale’s guitars, which come very near to counting as percussion instruments.

But take heed folks:


Dale’s health concerns have become an unlikely viral sensation following the wide dissemination of a July 29 interview for the Pittsburgh City Paper that had the guitar hero declaring: "I can’t stop touring because I will die. Physically and literally, I will die." The 78-year-old’s road regimen has less to do with the love of satisfying oldies hounds and Quentin Tarantino fans (1962’s "Misirlou" having found a second life as the theme to 1994’s Pulp Fiction) than with paying medical bills involving diabetes, post-cancer treatment and other debilitating conditions. Suddenly, he’s the poster child for a generation that’s not too sick to work, but too sick to retire.

His is not a case of lacking health care -- he’s double insured -- but of insurers refusing to pay for the replenishment of supplies he says is necessary to keep his stoma infection-free. That’s why Dale says he has to tour, to make up for thousands of dollars of uncovered medical expenses every month. "My only income is what comes in when I’m on the road," he says (with "Misirlou" bringing in performance rights payments but no writing royalties).

...

"If I had the money coming in, I’d stay home with Lana" -- his beloved wife, manager, and booking agent, who suffers from MS herself -- "and build a ship in a bottle," he tells Billboard. "But I’ve also got to realize I’ve been kept alive for a reason. People are not only coming to a concert, they’re coming to a way of life… where we’re willing to share what our lives are all about and how we make fun of [health issues]. It’s not ‘Oh, I’m suffering down here and you’re having a good time up there.’ I can tell ‘em how much goddam pain I’m going through ‘up there.’ I let them know: I’ve got the same crap you’ve got."
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
Mar 18, 2019 - 06:44am PT
Dang.

Susan
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Mar 18, 2019 - 07:01am PT
Didn't he have a place in JT. He also owned the Gilette mansion in Newport years ago. Coincidentally last weekend I picked up a very clean copy of Checkered Flag. Hard to find good copies of his music, cuz it got played hard.
i-b-goB

Social climber
Nutty
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2019 - 07:38am PT
Thx for your posts zBrown!

https://www.fender.com/articles/artists/the-father-of-surf-7-essential-dick-dale-facts/

Jim Clipper

climber
Mar 18, 2019 - 08:25am PT
Repost, but it's worth it imho.

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Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
Mar 18, 2019 - 08:30am PT
Legend...
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Mar 18, 2019 - 08:58am PT
Indeed


Had a lot to do with how Fender guitars and amps sound. RIP
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 18, 2019 - 09:00am PT
His many fans began trailing Dick and his Deltones early on in caravans of buses and VW vans so they would never miss a performance.

They became known fondly in the media as Dickheads.

The rest is rock history.
wbw

Trad climber
'cross the great divide
Mar 18, 2019 - 12:06pm PT
^^^^Mouse, I think that is the first thing you've ever posted on this forum that I understood. Good one!!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 18, 2019 - 12:16pm PT
I'm so grateful for that, too. It means a lot, I guess.
zBrown

Ice climber
Mar 18, 2019 - 12:59pm PT
Last time I saw both Link Wray (2005) and Dick Dale (2004) was at the Glendale Cruise Night.

Only found Link so far (7-16-2005).


Dick's 2004 Florida show about the same as Glendale

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otisdog

Social climber
Sierra Madre, Ca.
Mar 18, 2019 - 01:44pm PT
Saw him as a young 'en at the Balboa Rendezvous, Easter week, mid 60's....
Mmmm....maybe early 60's, since it burned down in '66.
zBrown

Ice climber
Mar 18, 2019 - 01:52pm PT
Me too

Also out at his place in Riverside, where he had a huge book of songs and would never turn down a request.



Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Mar 18, 2019 - 08:47pm PT
Don't hold me to this as my memory of the mid-70's are kinda nebulous not so much from the pharmas but more that I was a blown-away 17 year old kid from the South on his own in LA.

But I would swear that I saw this guy play a gig at the Santa Monica Civic. I vaguely remember some all day surf movie thing with LIVE BANDS - and tho I don't remember any of the names, I do remember the sound. Whenever I hear one of his cuts I know I heard it for real one time.

Sonic Avalanche.





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