Surf guitar legend, Dick Dale has died.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...317-story.html
Dang.
Surf guitar legend, Dick Dale has died.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...317-story.html
Dang.
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texasdave (03-17-2019)
Kingspoint (03-19-2019)
I refuse to believe this has happened.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
A really cool guy, and fun to watch because he played his guitar upside down. I think I've only seen five or six guys who did that.
marcshoe (03-18-2019)
No, Dick plays a right-handed guitar left-handed without restringing it. So, the bass strings are closer to the floor, which is opposite everyone else. The only other ones off the top of my head that do that are Albert King and Doyle Brimhall, but there are a few others. Jimi Hendrix did not, although it's a rumor that he did.
Yes, because especially in the 50's and 60's, it was difficult to find a real left-handed guitar. It wasn't obvious on a lot of guitars, but if you do it to an acoustic guitar, the pick guard is on the top and it looks weird. My dad had to do the same thing for his guitar and fiddle, but I was right-handed so we hand to have two of everything.
I read an article yesterday in which he said he started the upside-down thing accidentally because he had won a cheap ukulele and didn't know any better.
The article goes on to talk about Leo Fender building an amp for him because he was blowing out the ones he was using.Dale’s unique guitar technique—he played left-handed, but unlike other lefties like Jimi Hendrix, left his guitars strung for right-handed players, so the high strings were closest to the top of the guitar—came from youth, ignorance, and ukuleles, as he explained to Miami New Times in 2011:
I was reading a Superman magazine and it said: Sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream and we’ll send you this ukulele. And I got it. But it was a piece of crap, so I filled a red wagon with a bunch of Pepsi and Coke bottles, went down to the store, cashed them, and I got a basic ukulele for $6. … when I started playing the guitar, I used the ukulele chords. Plus, I held the ukulele upside-down when I first got it. You know, the book didn’t say: Turn it the other way, stupid. You’re left handed. And that’s how I started playing upside-down backwards ‘cause all my rhythm was in my left hand.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/di...-cqp5S09yMKans
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Kingspoint (03-19-2019),M2 (03-18-2019)
When I was 11 years old, I asked my guitar teacher to teach me how to play "Misirlou" (probably because it was on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack). He refused and said "it's all just reverb and fast picking" and he taught me Beatles songs instead.
My guitar teacher was wrong.
Kingspoint (03-19-2019),M2 (03-18-2019),marcshoe (03-18-2019),Rojo (03-20-2019)
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"One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."
I can't believe I never noticed that surfer music was of Arabian origin.
So this guy, this one guy, changed the culture of the entire World. Amazing.
"One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."
Kingspoint (03-19-2019)
RIP Dick Dale, not only did you shred but your death and need to tour to prevent it is a now a scar we all bear
SunDeck (03-23-2019)
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