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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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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 18, 2019 - 08:47pm PT
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^very possible
Though he was in a Riverside then Orange County mainly
Keep in' Dick alive a bit longer
I don’t play what they call “surf music.” The Beach Boys did, and they used to open for me for $10. I play sounds from a guitar that I created from Gene Krupa. His drums. He got the rhythms from the indigenous tribes that I’ve studied that he did. How they counted onetwothreefour onetwothreefour onetwothreefour onetwothreefour on the one--one two three four, one two three four. They played on the one, where musicians play on the one-and, so that’s the reason why he was so powerful in his drumming and drew such crowds.
Don't play no folk rock either
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James Wilcox
Trad climber
Goleta/Virginia Lakes
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Mar 19, 2019 - 09:39am PT
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Russ,
Check out Dick's bassist.
PHS/Sierra Madre
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 19, 2019 - 07:20pm PT
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HaHaHaHaHA>>>-------->WIPEOUT!
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 19, 2019 - 09:27pm PT
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James Wilcox
Trad climber
Goleta/Virginia Lakes
Mar 19, 2019 - 09:39am PT
Russ,
Check out Dick's bassist.
PHS/Sierra Madre
Yeah huh? Known that for a while. If you recall, his uncle was Leo Fender of Fender guitars etc... sorta makes all the parts fit don’t it?
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otisdog
Social climber
Sierra Madre, Ca.
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Mar 20, 2019 - 06:39am PT
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Okay, who's the bassist?
Signed, naive PHS alum and Sierra Madre resident.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 20, 2019 - 09:40am PT
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Otis: what years did you do your time at phs? Me and Jim are old... got released in 79/80
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Mar 20, 2019 - 12:11pm PT
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He’s associated with surf guitar but had a huge influence on heavy rock, psychedelic rock, and metal.
On Jimi Hendrix’s third stone from the sun he sings “you’ll never hear surf music again”
The line about never hearing surf music again was actually a dedication to surf guitar king Dick Dale, who was dying of cancer (but didn't die and later covered the song , dedicating it to Jimi).
quote from Dale -
"Jimi dedicated this song to me when I was dying of cancer. That's where the quote 'You'll never hear surf music again' comes from. For a while, Hendrix was backing up Little Richard in a bar in Padasena. He came to my live shows. Listen to his guitar slides; he said he patterned his style after me, after watching me blow up amplifiers."
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otisdog
Social climber
Sierra Madre, Ca.
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Mar 20, 2019 - 12:38pm PT
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Russ, you're a youngster!
Got out in '72....
who's the bassist?
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 20, 2019 - 01:28pm PT
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^^^^ hahaha.... yep... feeling younger all the time
Sam Bolle... the family used to live up off Baldwin by the Bethany Church. His brother Dirk also went to PHS and was a bit older than us by a couple years.
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CragRat 4x4
Big Wall climber
Simi Valley Ca
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Mar 20, 2019 - 02:53pm 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."
His place was the Dick Dale sky ranch
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 22, 2019 - 09:20pm PT
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“I wanted my guitar to sound like Gene Krupa’s drums,” Dale said in a 2010 Surfer Magazine interview. “I never went to school and learned music theory. When I play, I go, ‘This sounds like a tiger; this sounds like a volcano; this sounds like the lip of the water coming over my head when I’m surfing.’ My bass player says, ‘When I stand behind you, I don’t just see your arms moving, I see your shoulders shuddering, your back straining.’ That’s because I put all my physical force into my playing. I take people for a ride on a non-chemical wave of sound.”e
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 27, 2019 - 06:29am 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. Showed up today on my forum sidebar ad along with the Trump shirt.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 27, 2019 - 06:30pm PT
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Wipeout is the first song that comes to mind when I think about this genre but definitely not a Dick Dale creation.
I saw Link Wray very late in his career but never did see Dick Dale live.
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