DICK DALE  TRIBAL  THUNDER

 

DICK  DALE  - TRIBAL  THUNDER   2002.

Dick Dale recorded “Let’s Go Trippin’” in 1962 with a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar and Fender amp, creating a reverb sound that distinguished “Let’s Go Trippin’” as the first surf rock song. As the originator of what became known as instrumental surf music, he defined this new sound as “a heavy machine-gun staccato picking style to represent the power of Mother Nature, of our earth, of our ocean.” 

“I wanted my guitar to sound like Gene Krupa’s drums.” Dales said in a 2010 Surfer magazine interview. “I never went to school and learned music theory”, Dale said, explaining the sound he was reaching for: “When I play, I go, ‘This sounds like a tiger; this sounds like a volcano; this sounds like the lip of the water coming over my head when I’m surfing.’ 

He died this day, March 16th, 2019 of long-standing health issues. For Babyboomers, Dick Dale is remembered for his legendary shows at the Rendezvous Ballroom (packed with wave-riders and their blonde girlfriends doing the Surfer Stomp) in Newport Beach in the early 1960s. 

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