Dick Dale

[ramonesfreak]

got to meet one of my heros last night, briefly. he still plays great! hope i can make it to 75 and still rock like that. go see him if he comes to town

took some great video up close only to realize today i had the microphone muted

here he is last night

[azasadny]

Excellent! My father went to see Mitch Ryder last night, but he said it was terrible. I'm glad Dick Dale is still on his game!!

[craigster59]

It's great when the guys still have it together and can blow the crowd away after all these years. I've always wanted to see him live, never had the chance.

Going to see Ray Davies next Saturday, really looking forward to that.

[ramonesfreak]

he is. Nitro was the opening tune which he started from back stage and walked out. the sound of it filled me with much happiness. thank god for guitars

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by craigster59

It's great when the guys still have it together and can blow the crowd away after all these years. I've always wanted to see him live, never had the chance.

Going to see Ray Davies next Saturday, really looking forward to that.

hes one of the legends i have yet to see. a friend saw him recently and enjoyed it

[dw1]

DICK DALE!!!

One of my guitar heroes.

His solo version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" still amazes me, and gets the adrenalin flowing no matter how many times I here it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIvfVyyqTDI

How can you not love a guy who had the first 100 watt guitar amp!

"Leo Fender kept giving Dale amps and Dale kept blowing them up! Till one night Leo and his right hand man Freddy T. (Freddie Tavares) went down to the Rendezvous Ballroom on the Balboa Peninsula in Balboa, California and stood in the middle of four thousand screaming and dancing Dick Dale fans, and said to Freddy, I now know what Dick Dale is trying to tell me. They went to JBL (James B. Lansing loudspeaker company) and explained that they wanted a fifteen inch loudspeaker built to their specifications. The unit became famous as the 15" JBL D130F model. It made the complete package for Dale to play through and was named the Single Showman Amp. When Dale plugged his Fender Stratocaster guitar into the new Showman Amp and loudspeaker cabinet, Dale became the first person on earth to jump from the volume scale of a modest quiet guitar player (on a scale of 4) to blasting up through the volume scale to TEN! That is when Dale became the "Father of Heavy Metal" as quoted from Guitar Player magazine. Dale broke through the electronic barrier limitations of that era!"

[Don Plumley]

Saw Dick Dale in a small theater in town last Fall. A real showman, he rocks.

[ramonesfreak]

even though this is 17 years ago, he did not appear all that much older last night

[ramonesfreak]

[targa911S]

75 and attitude.....gotta love it. Was he really loud? Last I saw him he was...but it was a good loud.

[ramonesfreak]

It was a good loud. I was expecting louder because some friends who have seen him warned me that I might need ear plugs. I could stand in the front row comfortably without pain. Dick knows what he is doing cuz a strat, tons of reverb and high notes can be painful. There was no pain at all. Perfect mix

[Zeke]

Playing upside down must give him an advantage. I don't know what it might be. How did Hendrix play his?

Anyway, I heard Dale doing a sound check at an outside theater. Wasn't much of a "theater" either as the backdrop was only canvas. Every note is an explosion.

We were spoiled here in the 60's with surf bands everywhere. Some were quite good while many others were frat house quality.

[ramonesfreak]

I don't see it as an advantage. Not sure it's a disadvantage either since has has always done it that way and doesn't play a ton of chords.

Jimi did not play with the strings upside down, just a righty guitar flipped for lefty with the strings proper

Albert king also played with the strings upside down, and played very well

[aigel]

I didn't know different woods had different molecule sizes?

Those were the days, when you just packed up and went to CA on your Harley ... even if you weren't an artist or maybe more-so. I have talked to a lot of guys his generation that did just that and had very fulfilling lives ins a beautiful state ... I have lived in small towns here where almost every garage has a hot rod or muscle car in it with a guy like him living there ...

G

[BeyGon]

I saw him many, many Saturday nights at the Rendezvous in Balboa, I liked Misirlou, the theme song from Pulp Fiction. He billed himself as the fastest left handed guitar player ever.

[ramonesfreak]

you were a part of history!

http://www.surfingmuseum.org/exhibit/reunion/rendezvous.html

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

you were a part of history!

even then the line would be all the way down and around the corner. It was great. Doing the "stomp", the surfer stomp. No, I don't remember how it went.