{"id":9630,"date":"2012-06-17T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dick-dale-king-of-the-surf-guitar\/"},"modified":"2012-06-17T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T17:49:16","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dick-dale-king-of-the-surf-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dick-dale-king-of-the-surf-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies Deferred: Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night's desert storm knocked out my Internet connection . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the Beach Boys, who debuted 50 years ago in '62, there was Dick Dale, the father of surf music and my first guitar hero.  He took a Fender Stratocaster<\/a> and played it upside down and backwards, fretting with this right hand and plucking with his left.  The first surf song was his 1961<\/span><\/p>\n

Let's Go Trippin<\/a>. But what really got me practicing on my Fender Mustang<\/a>, my first electric guitar, was<\/span><\/p>\n

Misirlou<\/a>.  The Del-Tones in this video ought to be renamed 'The Soporific Sidemen.'  Here<\/a> is the "Pulp Fiction" version. Continuing in the Middle Eastern vein:<\/span><\/p>\n

Hava Nagila<\/a>.  Surfing, So Cal, and hot rods naturally go together.  So surf music gradually morphed into car music, e.g.,<\/span><\/p>\n

Nitro<\/a>.  Dale teams up with the rather more versatile and technically proficient Stevie Ray Vaughan (who merely plays his guitar without raping it) for absolutely the best version of The Chantay's <\/span><\/p>\n

Pipeline<\/a>.  Psychedelia put an end to surf music.  The epitaph "You will never hear surf music again" is delivered by Jimi Hendrix at 4:33 of<\/span><\/p>\n

Third Stone From the Sun<\/a>.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night's desert storm knocked out my Internet connection . . . . Before the Beach Boys, who debuted 50 years ago in '62, there was Dick Dale, the father of surf music and my first guitar hero.  He took a Fender Stratocaster and played it upside down and backwards, fretting with this right hand and … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies Deferred: Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}