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If I recall correctly, Art is the ONLY Del-tone on any of the Capital
sessions, and only one or two at that. I also recall loosely that he
only played bass on disc.
Phil
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Ivan have you heard "Mag Wheels" from the Checkered Flag album?
kind of similar... in some ways I guess.
I love the whole Mr. Eliminator album I got a bootleg mp3 copy of
it. My favorite Dick vocals are on that one as well. While reading
through the Dalley book I noticed(can't remember who)a guitarist
mentioned seeing Art Munson's Stratocaster case and wanting it. He
also said Art used to do some pretty advanced leads at the time. On
the Mr. Elimintor album there are some really bendy solos and I
wouldn't be surprised if those were Art and Dick was doing the more
double picked stuff. One thing I noticed the bendy solos, which I'm
assuming where Art, contain more full step bends, where as Dick does
more of the Johnny B. Goodish full step slides... Dick didn't swap
his wound G strings. Nitro Fuel is a great example of a Dick Dale
solo! I think those early albums contain some great examples of
that.
Bill
www.reluctantaquanauts.com
--- In , "ipongrac" <ipongrac@g...>
wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> I've been trying to get to know DD's more obscure tracks over the
> last couple of months. I have a Surf label bootleg vinyl that
> gathers a bunch of lesser known stuff (unfortunately, I don't have
a
> couple of DDs sixties LPs, so this fills that hole nicely), and
one
> song in particular has been standing out lately. It's
called "Nitro
> Fuel" and it's from Dick's fourth album "Mr. Eliminator".
>
> You know, I always thought all that "Father Of Heavy Metal" stuff
> was a bunch of crap hype (just because you play loud, it don't
make
> you metal!), but after listening to this track over and over, I'm
> starting to think that there may be something to it. The track
> itself ain't much, just a riff repeated over and over again. But
> the solo in this song is astonishing. Dick plays a bunch of fast
> scalar runs (very unlike him, actually), lot of screaming bent
> notes, and ends on a pretty much perfect unexpected bluesy note.
I
> think any '80s shredder would have a big smile and a thumbs up
after
> hearing this solo. And that freakin' solo gives a LOT of context
> for Shigeo's playing (of the Surf Coasters, for the uninitiated)!
>
> Anyway, just had to get this off my chest. Check it out if you
have
> it, and pay attention to the solo.
> Ivan
>
> PS Yes, I know a lot of jazzbos could and did play really
> fast 'shred'-like stuff way before the early sixties - but this is
> the earliest solo I know that's truly a r&r shred solo. That's
all
> I'm saying.
.
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