Leo Fender kept giving Dale amps and Dale kept blowing them up! Till one night Leo and his right hand man Freddy T. (Freddie Tavares) went down to the Rendezvous Ballroom on the Balboa Peninsula in Balboa, California and stood in the middle of four thousand screaming and dancing Dick Dale fans, and said to Freddy, I now know what Dick Dale is trying to tell me. They went to JBLJames B. Lansing loudspeaker company and explained that they wanted a fifteen inch loudspeaker built to their specifications. The unit became famous as the 15" JBL D130F model. It made the complete package for Dale to play through and was named the Single Showman Amp. When Dale plugged his Fender Stratocaster guitar into the new Showman Amp and loudspeaker cabinet, Dale became the first person on earth to jump from the volume scale of a modest quiet guitar player (on a scale of 4) to blasting up through the volume scale to TEN! [wiki]
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Thanks for that piece of info.
Actually just listened to that on Pandora, I have Dale a bunch of other great guitar groups like The Shadows, Ventures, Los Straightjackets, Duane Eddy, Junior Brown, lots of great music, but Dick Dale is THE KING!
"Misirlou"--Tetos Demetriades (1927)
I saw Dick Dale in person on several occasions. He used to play around Southern California in hte 1970’s.
Audio only on a youtube link. Don't get the spanish, but it's the only clean version on youtube i could find.
Dale really wales on this. Glen Campbell - In My Arms
Left handed and had the strings on his guitar reversed if I recall correctly.
Thanx, I’ve just spent 3 hours roaming around in the You Tube music labyrinth. :-) Lots of stuff I’ve not heard in many years.
Here is Dick Dale in a Live TV performance of ‘Misirlou’.
Check out the band memebers, and tell me that you see an Al Franken clone, there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8
Wasn’t he a regular at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach? That’s where I seem to remember him more than the Rendezvous.
Senior in HS in 1962. Better times I can not imagine.
I think he was Lebanese and so the ME sound to the music.