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Chris:
I think the things that blow me away about Dick Dale's live
shows are:
1, the dude's 68 years old and tears it up like a 25 year
old...he gets out in the crowd and does his
crazy-solo-wireless-cruise-bit through the audience...it's
almost hypnotic sometimes!
2. His volume level is INTENSE...and to think he really did
"invent" freakin'-loud-ass electric rock way back in the
Rendevous days...
3. Although I didn't much care for "Captain Ron" (I'm a
bassist and a bass snob, so there's no way I could like a
guy who plays bass like a tool or a job)...I think Dusty
watson is freakin' amazing...I 'm thinking about building a
personal worship shine dedicated to the magnificence of all
things Dusty...he and Dick work together like hand and
glove...
4. after the show, old Dick Dale is super gracious and will
even sign your Grandma's Ass with his Sharpie if you ask.
The way he comes out and signs everything in sight, and
says "hi" to every single person waiting there, and looks
into their eyes, and shakes their hands and even remembers
their names...to think of the literally millions of people
who have had the one-on-one Dick Dale signature treatment
over the last 45 years...it's mind boggling.
5. Dick Dale at a So Cal show is an absolute
institution...at So Cal shows there is often 3 generations
of fans all the way from way old Grandmas to little
toddlers...
well...I guess I'll stop there...I guess I can ramble on
about old DD for days...see what happens when you start as
a youngin' playing "Surfer's Choice" on the old turntable
at age 5...you get hooked...
sick, I tell ya'
;) DP
--- kahunatikiman <> wrote:
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>
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> Here's my take on seeing Dick Dale Live. I agree with
> Klas and
> Brian on many points, and if I had my choice of seeing
> the new D.D.
> or D.D. circa 1962, I'd rather see 1962 D.D. BUT...
> since that
> aint gonna happen unless I get that time machine from
> Napoleon
> Dynamite working, I'll be happy seeing the newer
> version. I go and
> see him every year (since '94 - 10 years now) just for
> the few
> moments when you can hear what it used to be like. I'd
> rather hear
> him play Miserlou like the record, but I'll take it in a
> medley with
> Surf Beat and Let's go Trippin'. The man has some
> serious power
> when he plays, and to see it in person is still a
> thrill, even
> after all these years. He's still a carismatic
> performer, and
> still commands the audiences attention at all times.
> Last year, he
> stripped his set down to less vocals, more older instro
> stuff, and
> it was really great. Almost two hours of the closest
> thing to the
> 1962 D.D. I've ever seen.
>
> We all give him a hard time because he talks a big
> game, but I
> think it takes a personality like that to do some of the
> things he
> did. He was the first with that tone, and to play like
> that way in
> the early sixties had to take someone with that type of
> personality
> to say to hell with what people think, I'm doing it my
> way.
>
> Chris
>
> P.S. - I LIKE the way he and SRV did Pipeline - it was
> new and fresh
> when it came out, I thought.
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