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Music CD - Dick Dale & the Del-Tones: King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
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Music CD: King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
Artist: Dick Dale & the Del-Tones
List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. Let's Go Trippin
2. Shake 'N' Stomp
3. Misirlou
4. Mr. Peppermint Man
5. Surf Beat
6. Take It Off
7. King Of The Surf Guitar
8. Hava Nagila
9. Riders In The Sky
10. The Wedge
11. Night Rider
12. Mr. Eliminator
13. The Victor
14. Taco Wagon
15. Tidal Wave
16. Banzi Washout
17. One Double One Oh!
18. Pipeline - Dick Dale And His Del Tones w/ Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227575625
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 1989-08-04
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Twang Me!
Comment: This is a great record. Dick Dale is one of the most under-rated guitar players of all time. While it is true that he is limited in his style, his style is what it is, and what it is is very good. This album contains most of his great hits and a few gems. For your listening pleasure are some snappy hooks, tight playing, and some great, great guitar moments. I highly recommend this album to anyone who plays guitar, and if you are a young guitarist looking for some inspiration, you need look no further. This is great stuff.
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Summary: Dick Dale was the Pioneer...
Comment: I knew of Dick Dale's more well known tunes, his first "Let's go tripping" & "Misirlou", but the lesser known tracks are quite good. It demonstrates Dale's growth from his first to the "Pipeline" remake. The tracks are pretty much layed out on chronological order, and that's good.
His style is all over this cd, no mistaking it. He's described as "High Energy", and I'm not a fan of harsh surf - some of that here, but all good.
I recommend this cd for surf tune lovers and how surf all started with Dick Dale.
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Summary: Surf mandolin
Comment: Dick Dale was left-handed, yet didn't reverse the strings on his guitar. His technique is most accurately described as electrified mandolin that was augmented in 1962 with a portable Fender reverb unit. He is widely considered the father of surf music and there's no denying that those who came after Dale used his music as a starting point.
The Del-Tones never had a hit record in their time; not even "Misrilou" made much of a splash (forgive the pun). That song and Dale enjoyed a sort of notoriety 30 years after the track's release thanks to the film PULP FICTION. It was featured in the movie's opening credits.
In comparison to the surf music that followed in Dick Dale's wake (pun again), his stuff had more energy perhaps, but it just wasn't as good. Dale had a penchant for reworking tunes to his style that probably should have been left alone-- "The Wedge," "Riders In The Sky" and "Hava Nagila" are good examples of this.
The last selection, "Pipeline," features Stevie Ray Vaughan, and was recorded in 1987. RHINO did a fine job of remastering the older sides, and their liner notes are informative. THE BEST OF DICK DALE & HIS DEL-TONES is a collection that will appeal most to surf music completists, and historians of the "California Sound."
TOTAL RUNNING TIME -- 41:54
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Summary: A Great Album but not easy listening music . . . .
Comment: I am more partial to metal and hard rock, but Dick Dale is great! The first man to blow up amps and melt guitar picks. He used to start with a handful and flick them off into to audience.
Most of the tracks are a good cross section of the times; has artist as well as studio written and produced tracks. If you are interested in pre-Beach Boys 'surf guitar', this is one to get.
Most people will recognize Banzai Wipeout, but there are some 'studio produced' tracks as well that Dale was forced to record. They are insipid, but a good contrast to the artist's material. Dale wanted to see what he could do with a traditional melody, Hava Nagila has to be experienced . . . .its a great revenge track for all the boring whiny gangsta rap you hear in the summer.
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Summary: DickDale-King of the Surf Guitar
Comment: Don't think Dale can play a song the same way twice. Didn't like the selection of songs nor the way they produced.
J
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Editorial Reviews:
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This collection rightly concentrates on Dale's instrumental exploits as the Jimi Hendrix of surf music. Nineteen sixty-one's "Let's Go Trippin'" was the first real surf instrumental, although the pyrotechnic fretwork of later Dale records is largely absent. Those divebomb runs, reverb drenchings, and impossibly quick picking displays materialize on the next single, "Shake & Stomp," then bloom on the revved-up Middle-Eastern standard "Misirlou." Dale's instrumentals generally fell into two camps: standard-progression frat blasts ("Take It Off," "Night Rider," "Mr. Eliminator") and minor-key Middle-Eastern excursions ("The Wedge," the "Pipeline"-esque "Banzai Wipeout," "The Victor," even "Hava Nagila"--which Jewish purists must have regarded as a hora of Babylon), on which his blistering technique was more likely to find its spotlight Some of his best work is found on "King of the Surf Guitar," a Duane Eddy knockoff with great vocals by the Blossoms garnished by lightning flashes of boss guitar. With all the dazzling axe-work on display (also including a beautiful 1987 duet with Stevie Ray Vaughan on the Chantays' unearthly "Pipeline"), the coolest cut here may be the sole vocal, "Mr. Peppermint Man," on which Dale's rasp oozes a concupiscent slime over the murky tale of a lollipop Lothario who "carries a little sign that says, Have some dessert." Frat rock godhead. --Ken Barnes
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