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--- In , "Marty Tippens" <mctippens@e...>
wrote:
> As back-handed a complement as we might attempt such as Ivan's # 4
> paragraph below and some of the stuff I've said as well as the
> outright slams, it's mistake to exclude the fact that the Dick Dale
> show is a success to the general audience. We hardcore surf fans
> frame the Dick Dale show from a very slanted perspective, and
> however close we try to hold him to the light, the general audiences
> eat it up.
Marty, my paragraph #4 was neither intended to be a compliment nor to
be backhanded. I really thought of it as a statement of fact. And I
agree with you that the show works for the audiences, which is what I
tried to imply, so more power to Dick. I've long ago come to accept
that it's never going to be what I would like it to be and in fact if
you read my review on SG101 of a Dick show I saw in May, I was very
complimentary of the whole experience. Not cause Dick was his sixties
self, but cause I got a bit more than I expected. And I expected
basically a circus - and one does not complain about all the silly
looking, silly acting, annoying clowns and monkeys at a circus,
right? (I went to see him again last year cause my bandmates had
never seen him, and to get together with Dusty.) So, I think you
misunderstood and mischaracterized my point, which was, once again,
that it really doesn't matter if Slacktone was to play the entire DD
catalog opening for him, cause people don't go to his shows to hear
his songs (and that's good, cause they'll only get snippets) - they go
for the whole damn show. That's all I was saying..
And BTW, lest the Dick-faithful skewer me, I'll happily admit that
he's one of my two or three major musical influences. I love the guy,
I totally appreciate his historical place, I totally accept that he
wrote the book, and I LOVE, LOVE many of his recordings. Which is why
I wasn't trying to criticize him, but rather simply state what his
show consists of. I think all who have seen him over the last 15
years will knowingly nod their heads. A big part of the show is
observing his outsized ego, and chuckling to oneself - or maybe being
highly impressed - either way. And no other surf band could even
TOUCH him when it comes to that!
Ivan
