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japetus
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Dick Dale fuckin shredded!
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VonBonfire
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I was listening to the King of the Surf Guitar album the past couple days while finishing out my bathroom.
Commercial free for your enjoyments:
What strikes me as interesting is how similar some of SRV's tones/licks are to some of Dick's stuff especially the licks in "King of the Surf Guitar". I suppose a strat with thick strings, showman/twin amp has something to do with it. Awesome stuff.
japetus
Awawa
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Dick Dale was using 60-16 gauge strings, absolute madman!
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VonBonfire
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That's basically a square neck resonator level thick set. His tone with the Fender reverb tank is killer!!!
This entire forum owes Dick their gratitude for pioneering loud amps. There wasn't a drop of tan pants amp in Dick Dale's blood.
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VonBonfire
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This was my Jimi/Dick/Stevie inspired strat build from around 2014....probably should've hung onto it.
I feel like @CarlF might like that axe....
I feel like @CarlF might like that axe....
japetus
Awawa
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I love this quote..."He partnered with Leo Fender to test new equipment. In interviews Dale noted that Fender had stated, "When it can withstand the barrage of punishment from Dick Dale, then it is fit for the human consumption."That's basically a square neck resonator level thick set. His tone with the Fender reverb tank is killer!!!
This entire forum owes Dick their gratitude for pioneering loud amps. There wasn't a drop of tan pants amp in Dick Dale's blood.
Imagine walking into Fender HQ in 1960, humming in their prime, and they tell you they will make you anything you want, just name it. That's some Charlie and the Chocolate Factory level shit right there.
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VonBonfire
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Yup, 85 watt showman and D130 JBL's plus a standalone reverb unit. A weapon for a more civilized age.
griff10672
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you're getting @japetus all juiced up and it isn't even Friday
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VonBonfire
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He loves those old Fenders. Can't blame him. I'd love a blonde showman....
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VonBonfire
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Why the Showman was Built:
"In the early 1960s, Dick Dale was playing packed, loud shows at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California. His rapid-fire, heavily percussive picking style combined with extremely heavy gauge strings kept blowing up standard 10-watt and 30-watt amplifiers. After Dale destroyed nearly 50 Fender amp and speaker sets—some even catching fire—Leo Fender realized the need for a radically more robust amplifier. This led to the creation of the massive output transformer and the road-ready Showman setup."
Blew up 50 Fender amps, LMAO.
"In the early 1960s, Dick Dale was playing packed, loud shows at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California. His rapid-fire, heavily percussive picking style combined with extremely heavy gauge strings kept blowing up standard 10-watt and 30-watt amplifiers. After Dale destroyed nearly 50 Fender amp and speaker sets—some even catching fire—Leo Fender realized the need for a radically more robust amplifier. This led to the creation of the massive output transformer and the road-ready Showman setup."
Blew up 50 Fender amps, LMAO.
Geo
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You need a Z Verb to make those noises.
Rottweiler
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That album title reminded me of the B side to Surfin Bird. 1964. The F4 and F104 were doing mach 2, The XB70 flew, and we were 2 years from the SR71. Amazing technology back then. I wasn't there for it, but what an amazing time for developments.
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VonBonfire
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The F-104 is an amazing plane. 100,000 feet altitude and over mach 2......a lot of modern fighters still don't rival that performance. A missile with wings. It was definitely an amazing time for American manufacturing excellence. It's been downhill every since on just about every front. I wasn't there either but I console myself by saying that if I was, I'd be even more pissed off about the state of the country now, since I would've seen it at it's seemingly best point.
