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Post by gitpiddler on Mar 17, 2019 21:48:46 GMT -5
pagesix.com/2019/03/17/surf-guitar-legend-dick-dale-dead-at-81/Surf guitar legend Dick Dale, whose song “Misirlou” gained fame in director Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” died on Saturday night. He was 81. Dale’s bass player, Sam Bolle, confirmed his death to The Post on Sunday. “He was just the ultimate, original badass,” Bolle told The Post. “He was punk rock 30 years before there was punk rock.” Born Richard Anthony Monsour in 1937, Dale created the surf-guitar sound by adding instrumental rock elements to Eastern European music. A number of other surf-rock acts — including the Chantays and the Surfaris — borrowed his techniques in the early 1960s to capture the reverb-heavy “wet” sound of his music.
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Post by sumgai on Mar 18, 2019 1:41:31 GMT -5
Damn, no more fwip. Sigh.
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Post by reTrEaD on Mar 18, 2019 8:58:13 GMT -5
Damn, no more fwip. Sigh. When I first read the obit, I thought of you. I'm sure there will be tears in your beer for a while. 😢
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Post by Jaga on Mar 18, 2019 19:02:49 GMT -5
I was lucky to be on his concerts 2 times. He was an amazing guitarist. The world is going to miss the Surf King.
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Post by newey on Mar 18, 2019 22:00:06 GMT -5
For those younger members who may not know, Dick Dale was a guitarist's guitarist, one of those who even the best players wanted to emulate. Listen to "Tribal Thunder" (from even as late as the 1980's) and be amazed. Then, go watch a video of him playing- left-handed on a right-handed guitar, but unlike Hendrix, without swapping the strings around, so the low E is on the bottom. You watch him and you can't figure out what the heck he's doing, 'cause it's all bass-akwards.
We will miss Dick. I think "Taco Wagon" is my favorite.
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Post by gitpiddler on Mar 24, 2019 2:44:15 GMT -5
He worked with Leo Fender on numerous products. When they could stand up to his abuse, they were tough enough.
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