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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 17, 2019 - 06:38pm PT
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The King is dead! Long live the king, of Surf Guitar!
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mynameismud
climber
backseat
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Mar 17, 2019 - 07:02pm PT
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Dick Dale was amazing.
Listen in tribute
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 17, 2019 - 07:23pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
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.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 17, 2019 - 08:48pm PT
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Not many can lay claim to creating a sound.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 17, 2019 - 10:20pm PT
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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).
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"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."
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
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Mar 18, 2019 - 06:44am PT
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Dang.
Susan
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Mar 18, 2019 - 07:01am PT
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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.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 18, 2019 - 08:30am PT
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Legend...
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Mar 18, 2019 - 08:58am PT
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Indeed
Had a lot to do with how Fender guitars and amps sound. RIP
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 18, 2019 - 09:00am PT
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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.
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Mar 18, 2019 - 12:06pm PT
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^^^^Mouse, I think that is the first thing you've ever posted on this forum that I understood. Good one!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 18, 2019 - 12:16pm PT
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I'm so grateful for that, too. It means a lot, I guess.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 18, 2019 - 12:59pm PT
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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
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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otisdog
Social climber
Sierra Madre, Ca.
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Mar 18, 2019 - 01:44pm PT
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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.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 18, 2019 - 01:52pm PT
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Me too
Also out at his place in Riverside, where he had a huge book of songs and would never turn down a request.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Mar 18, 2019 - 08:47pm PT
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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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