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Hey Stretch,
That's too funny!!
Has anybody seen him introducing the band members and spelling in
the AIR with his hand the letters of their name. S.A.M.
D.A.X.X. J.I.M.M.Y. oh man, that was hilarious. I was shaking
my head in disbelief. He still has the chops. but his ego and
stage banter are outta controll. Gotta love/Hate that guy.
Jeff(bigtikidude)
--- In , Jeff Riedle <stretch@c...>
wrote:
> Alex,
> A word of caution about the musician known as Dick Dale.
> If you believe everything he says, then he also invented the air we
breathe
> and the water we drink.
> Stretch
>
>
>
>
> At 06:09 AM 9/2/05 -0000, you wrote:
> >I recently took a look at Dick Dales myspace bio.
> >
> >
> >
> >I was surprised to read that Dick Dale "invented surf music in the
> >1950's."
> >
> >I'm also quite confused by the claim that Dick Dale's Surfer's
Choice
> >was the first surf album ever released, but perhaps that's
debateable
> >in how you interpret the sentence...but I am pretty sure that it
was
> >not released in the 50s...
> >
> >"Dale had already been titled 'King of the Surf Guitar' by his
surfer
> >friends before his creation of the Fender Reverb, Dale's first
album
> >called 'Surfer's Choice' was the first Surfing album to be
> >commercially sold with a picture of Dale surfing by the pier in San
> >Clemente, Ca. with a surfing title on it. This album alone sold
over
> >eighty-eight thousand albums in the late 50's and today in the
90's it
> >would be like 4 million."
> >
> >Is there any truth to some of these claims and others made in the
full
> >bio?
> >
> >-Alex
