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I am interested in your pictures!!! I took some on our other camera
phone and I found a better one of Dick Dale playing. Once I download it
to my computer, I will pass it along.
Thanks for the great review of the show. You summed it up pretty well.
Speaking of the rowdy audience, I heard some woman tell those obnoxious
guys to take a hike! It was a little amusing.
-K
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:59:53 EDT writes:
> Dick was great as usual. Too bad some yahoos in the crowd were
> getting more
> than a little annoying when Dick and Jimmy were having technical
> difficulties
> with their new Minaret (?) Flaming guitars and later because Dick
> apparently
> did not realize that his sole reason for being there was to play
> these bozo's
> favorite DD song. I thought I had left these idiot audiences when I
> moved back
> to LA from Phoenix.
> I have to admit the Dick & Jimmy portion of the show does kind of
> grow on
> you. And the kid can play.
> The best part about seeing Capt. Ron back on stage with Dick is the
> fact that
> you can tell just by the smile on his face that there is no place in
> the
> world that Ron would rather be than on stage with Dick.
> The Neptunas opened the show and turned a great set of mostly instro
> tunes
> with a few garage vocal numbers. These girls rock.
> Big Sandy was the big attraction for me also at least until they
> announced DD
> was going to headline after Dave Davies bowed out due to illness.
> Rockabilly
> is too limited a term to describe Big Sandy. The best way I've found
> to
> describe them is to say that they are Rock and Roll circa 1955 back
> when nobody was
> sure if rock was a new style of honky tonk country, white rhythm and
> blues or
> the bastard child of both. Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys are all
> of these
> and more. If you ever get a chance to see them in a club, go. It's a
> trip on the
> "way-back machine" to a time when music was something more than
> demographically defined "product." It's too bad they tore down the
> Palomino. They would
> have been right at home there.
> I took some pics too. I can try to put them on the group site if
> anybody is
> interested.
> GT
>
