Shame, he was really influential. I’ve lately been practicing playing his tune “Misirlou” (think Pulp Fiction soundtrack) because the fast alternate picking and precise timing make a nice exercise. Dude was cool, RIP Mr Dale.
I just looked at a video of Dick Dale playing Miserlou in reaction to this news and I’d never actually seen him play previously. He’s left handed and he plays a left handed guitar. But he strings the strings backwards, bass on the bottom and treble on top. It’s like he learned to play by using a right handed guitar flipped to the left but didn’t bother to restring it in reverse like Jimi Hendrix did. That’s nuts, it means he had to learn everything upside down and backwards. Maybe that’s why he was so creative, he couldn’t just pick up a book and do what it said, not easily. Interesting.
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