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Re: los Straitjackets, and Dick Dale together

Paul Vandervort (schlockfink) - 20 May 2006 17:24:54

$34.95 Holy Shit! what are they playing a stadium?
> Message 2
> From: "Jeff"
> Date: Fri May 19, 2006 9:55pm(PDT)
> Subject: For anyone in or near Idaho, Los
> Straitjackets, and Dick Dale togeth
>
> SUPER SURFIN" SATURDAY
> WITH - LOS STRAITJACKETS AT 6 PM
> STARRING GUITAR LEGEND - DICK DALE AT 8 PM
> Saturday, August 5th at 6:00 pm
> All Tickets $34.95
> Ticket Price does not include tax or city parks
> fee.
>
> August 5 the Festival rides the wave of SUPER
> SURFIN' SATURDAY. At 6
> PM,
> LOS STRAITJACKETS serves up an original version of
> energetic surf
> guitar
> twang complete with Mexican wrestling masks! With
> regular
> appearances
> on
> Late Night with Conan O'Brien and touring with
> everyone from Tom
> Petty
> and
> the Heartbreakers to the Reverend Horton Heat and
> Link Wray over the
> past
> 10 years, this fun-loving, quirky and talented band
> has garnered
> loyal
> fans world-wide.
>
>
> At 8 PM, Grammy nominated guitar legend DICK DALE
> will show why he
> was
> given the title of "King of the Surf Guitar" by his
> fellow surfers
> in
> the
> 50s and 60s with whom he surfed from sun-up to
> sun-down. As an
> inductee
> into the Surfing Hall of Fame, he walked the walk,
> and when he wasn't
> surfing, he was inventing a new genre of rock music.
> Guitar and
> amplifier
> guru Leo Fender kept giving the young Dale amps and
> he kept blowing
> them
> up! Dale explained that he wanted to create the
> sound of Gene Krupa
> the
> famous jazz drummer who created the sounds of the
> native dancers in
> the
> jungles along with the roar of the ocean.
>
> Fender also asked Dale to play his new creation, the
> Fender
> Stratocaster
> Electric Guitar then watched in disbelief as Dale
> played the right
> handed
> guitar upside down and backwards - he was playing it
> left handed and
> changing the chords in his head then transposing the
> chords to his
> hands
> to create a sound never heard before. In 1981 he was
> named Guitarist
> of
> the Year by Guitar Magazine and in 1994 his Platinum
>
> Record "Miserlou"
> became the title song for the blockbuster movie
> "Pulp Fiction." He
> continues to reinvent himself and push the limits
> sharing the stage
> with
> fellow players of all generations including a recent
> collaboration
> with
> the Black-Eyed Peas. He performs with his son Jimmy,
> a teenage guitar
> prodigy in his own right. All tickets are $34.95.
> Gates will open at
> 4:30PM
>
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