As Decca Records told the Beatles in 1962, "Guitar groups are on their way out", and so...

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Comment by Linda French on January 15, 2015 at 7:37am

I think the surf's up and I'm in way over my head.   --LInda

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 14, 2015 at 5:43am

'Jungle Fever' and 'Surf Beat' are Dick's best known ones. Yes, it's r'n'r -- but instrumental r'n'r, which at the time, was a very minority thing. Then 'Guitar Gods' came along. Somewhere along the line came Duane Eddy and the Rebel Rousers

Comment by Linda French on January 14, 2015 at 5:14am

I see. So is there something I might have heard of his music? Surf music is not r&r? And I still like the Beach Boys.  --Linda Rhonda

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 14, 2015 at 4:46am

I must tell you Linda Rhonda, surf guitar is different from surf music. The Beach Boys were a vocal group rather than an isntrumental group, and they sung in harmony. Dick D was -- at the time -- a way out, innovative guitar maestro, playing completely different, and definitely not 'Sing along with me' music

Comment by Linda French on January 13, 2015 at 10:51pm

I do like surf guitar. Like the early Beach Boys.  --Linda

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 13, 2015 at 2:20pm

Dick Dale is 'The King of Surf Guitar'. he worked closely with Leo Fender in the 50's to develop the Strat and Tele guitars. There are claims that he was the first Heavy Metal guitarists.

Comment by Linda French on January 13, 2015 at 4:58am

ok. Who is Dick Dale?  --Linda

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 13, 2015 at 4:36am

Steve: somewhere the Floyd play(ed?) guitars.

Do you know the story about David Gilmour and the 1st Fender Strat?

Circa 1967, the Floyd gave a concert at the Uiversity I was at. usually bands turned up in a small truck with one roadie/gofer/manager.

Floyd arrived with 2 enormous trucks full of speakers and stuff, and built a giant wall of amps. The sound was incredible.

I have some Dick (the Lick) Dale albums around here somewhere.

Thanks for the invite. The next (and first) time I'm in Portland, I'll be sure to come a-listenin'.

Linda: of course you may interrupt. Steve will no doubt update us all on the current in/out status of guitar groups.

Comment by Steven Bryan Bieler on January 13, 2015 at 3:54am

I hope they're going somewhere fun. They deserve it, they work so hard.

When you come to my house, Val, I'll hide Pink Floyd and all the techno and bring out the Dick Dale records!

Comment by Linda French on January 12, 2015 at 8:57pm

Excuse me; may I interrupt for just a moment? This all seems to imply that guitar groups are going somewhere. Right?   --Linda

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