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"pull up barely-dressed teenage girls to hold up sheet music so he could play
the same trumpet part he's been playing for 40 years in the middle of the Wedge"
haha thats great, ive only seen dick twice, and about 10 years ago. but i never
even thought of that that way. but damn, he didnt get no teenage girls when i
saw him.
ipongrac <> wrote:
--- In , "supertwangreverb"
<supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
> Slacktone would NOT be playing Miserlou had it not been for Dick
Dale,
> sorry, simple as that! I know Dick didn't write it. I've read
where
> Phil Dirt said Slacktone "owns" Miserlou now. Sorry, but there is
> nothing farther from the truth than this statement. The majorities
> opinion, Jacob?? I know a lot of surf musicians and fans who
wouldn't
> want to hear Slacktone's version of Miserlou.
This thread is getting a bit out of control, but hell, I can't stay
out of it! Several points:
1) I agree with Marty than Dave and Dusty 'have good heads on their
shoulders', as well as being very kind and respectful human beings -
I can't imagine them doing anything that would intentionally cause
harm or inflict disrespect (though who knows how Dusty and Dick left
off? The fact is that DD is a very difficult person, and it's quite
possible that there's some bad blood between the two of them, though
I doubt it).
2) Slacktone's version of Miserlou is not THAT different from Dick's
original. All the parts and notes are in the same places, and Dave
just throws in a few flashy bits, such as the fast-moving chords -
but those don't really change the song very much. DD's version will
always be the definitive one, no way around that.
3) Having said that, has anyone heard DD play Miserlou the way he
recorded it originally in the last ten years? And what about the
original beat which I think is so important to the song? Has anyone
even heard him play it all the way through in ANY version? With the
bridge? I've seen him some seven or eight times in the last twelve
years, and I have not. He's changed it so much that it does
absolutely nothing for me anymore, and many others that I've talked
with. He obviously doesn't understand where the magic of that song
comes from, and I believe he's ruined it over the last decade. I'd
prefer for him to stop playing it, and let Slacktone and the Surf
Coasters and whoever else do it - they do it much better (but not
better than DD did it in '62).
4) DD's show isn't much of a musical experience - it's a show. You
don't go expecting to hear songs. You go to see him make his silly
faces, hear all 110+ db's of his Strat/reverb/Dual-Showmans, pull up
barely-dressed teenage girls to hold up sheet music so he could play
the same trumpet part he's been playing for 40 years in the middle of
the Wedge, and then feel them up, and listen to him embarass himself
by talking about how he suffers with the indigenous people of Earth,
how his soul cries out over the destruction of the environment, how
he taught Jimi and Stevie everything they knew and their entire
catalog was actually an homage to him cause they thought he was dead,
how he invented the Stratocaster and maybe the motorized airplane
(though he thinks there may have been a couple of brothers around,
too, but it was mostly him), how Deep Purple actually stole Smoke on
the Water from one of his unrecorded riffs and to prove it he'll now
just play the riff for about ten minuts, etc... If Slacktone plays
the entire DD catalog right before his show, it wouldn't make a damn
bit of difference, cause that's not why people come to see DD.
My two cents.
Ivan
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