Dick Dale dead at 81

R.I.P.

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>brian wilson is the top related search
What did google mean by this?

And you'll never hear...
Surf music again.

I'd like to see some verification for that.

I thought he was already dead

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Is Link OK?

Stop making RIP threads about literally who's.

I put Link over Elvis. I love the ever ==== out of elvis

dicks out for dick

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i'll pop you in the mouth you keep it up

this news makes me feel misrable

when you die no one will ever make a thread about you. stay mad, useless faggot

educate yourself faggot

Ded. Like we will all be.

LOL

What the hell I was just listening to Miserlou earlier

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so long dick youtube.com/watch?v=YyetsrUq1z4

Godspeed, Dick ;_;7

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He's next.

I can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing this. Dude was an absolute legend.

Big F.

Damn rip, there's a really funny Longmont potion castle where he calls him and his wife

"You'll never hear Surf music again" - Jimi Hendrix

Eddie Van Halen & or Eddie Hazel are the last. Once they die... computer technology.

Shut up boomer

PICK UP A FUCKING GUITAR

LEARN TO PLAY

Didn't the Ramones teach us anything?

>1
thought he died a long ass time ago. Mendela?

Shut up boomer

Can we get a sticky for old Dale

So I am subjected too fags with feelings.

Ow, my balls.

i'll execute every motherfucking last one of you

that sucks

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Stay mad boomer

Best guitarist in the game & yo shit on him...John Mayer.

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He's unironically one of the reasons I'm into music at all.

He's still alive

Fuck...big ol RIP for the king of surf guitar. I used to play miserlou on my guitar when I was like 14.

This is insane; I was literally reading just last night about that quote and how people thought it was Hendrix further shitting on the "psychedelic barbershop quartet" but how it was actually an homage to Dick Dale, whose cancer prognosis wasn't looking too good at the time. But then I saw he was still alive, almost 52 years later!
Well, godspeed, Dick. Absolute legend for having made it this far.

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HE'S STILL ALIVE RETARDS

sticky

bumping for mendala effect. I SWEAR this motherfucker died like 2 years ago.

pup fiction temhe

total legend. RIP

katie morgan and stormy daniels were born today

Prove it idiot

no mention of it on google

First Hollis, then Flint, then Blaine, and now the all time best surf guitarist.
This has been a horrible year so far. F.

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At least he got to live long enough to see Surf Rock well and truly die, and then another 40 years after that

Think its kind of hoax
en.mediamass.net/people/dick-dale/deathhoax.html

Big F

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Have you guys seen this music video

youtu.be/1g1drZ1j-C0

They have this exact article for every celebrity in existence, like an obit where you fill in the blanks. It's literally fake news.

F, a true American legend

how in the fuck is jerry lee goddamn lewis really going to be the last of the original rock 'n' rollers left standing

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Dale only lasted this long because of the vegan diet. Lewis will never die, that’s the power of cunny you’re related to

The maddest always win

Where's the article where he says that he forces himself to tour to pay his medical bills.

The Pulp Fiction guy?

>The genre reached national exposure when it was represented by vocal groups such as the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean.[11] Dale is quoted on such groups: "They were surfing sounds [with] surfing lyrics. In other words, the music wasn't surfing music. The words made them surfing songs. ... That was the difference ... the real surfing music is instrumental."[12]
was he in the right?

Ironic that they also covered Misirlou on Surfin' USA
youtube.com/watch?v=rRlx3Ux37AA

Wheres the fucking sticky?

It's on his wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Dale

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Wonder if DIck Dale hated Pet Sounds

yes, bboys is some candy ass shit

RIP king of the surf guitar

a very influential and underrated musician

Who revolutionized music tho?

Fucking F, I've just been getting really into surf rock

the beatles

Dick Dales influence was massive for the developing of psychodelia and, ofc, shoegaze (specially the deep tremolo bar dives). His timbral and eclectic transcultural musical experimentation was really advanced and far beyond the harmony sissies from the beach boys, my guy knew timbre was the legit ground of battle, i mean why try to perfect what Bach already covered centuries ago?

Obviously, it's annoying that every-time you say
>I like surf music
You have to immediately follow up with
>No not like the Beach Boys at all

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Rest in peace, bud

I don't have to

>no, not that corny shit about surfing by people who dont even get off the car when they go to the beach
its really tiresome.

I mean news articles. Normally when someone famous has recently died news articles show up. Somebody has obviously edited his wiki page

Imagine being this autistic

Meant for

i like surf music

no not like the offspring at all

All surf music is like that you mong.

oh no no no we found an unironic bitch boys fan here.

protip: the beatles are way better. now fuck off this thread.

surf is instrumental.

he not dead tho

t.BB fan who doesn't know about based instrumental surf music

Dick Dale himself had to clarify that his surf music fundamentally differed from Beach Boys, whose music is often called surf music.

for

Didn't know I had to pick a side. Who would've thought surf music fans were so defensive and tribalist.

>tribalist
maybe you could have perfectly anticipated it.

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maybe you think this music is for "chill" people? have you seen how violent are rastas?

Just stop equating Beach Boys with the entire genre of surf music. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Stop getting triggered by music.

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Don't think he meant it as an insult, just saying people mix up genres and call any song about surfing "surf rock".

That's like calling Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, "Dream Pop" because it's a pop song about dreams.

did he really? can't find anything on it, this should be pretty big news

stfu

Many people saying it's a hoax, was just listening to his tunes not two hours ago now I see this. Anyone got legit sauce?

Fake News

Aparently close friend Dusty Watson confirmed it on a facebook post. Still not sure

its not 100% sure but you have to make a decision, always. i vote hes dead, i already made a fb post. there are some agnostics that cant decide before some authority tells them "yep he ded". and there are the bb fanboys who are literal pieces of shit.

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confirmed by consequence of sound for you guided by hand cunts

I want to see the body.

imagine a literal corpse that stiff and all is more talented than you and your entire bloodline.

he alive my nigga

youtu.be/O1mJBXbGUk0?t=617

Dick Dale...king of the surf guitar. RIP

Damn son, he was really struggling near the end.
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CLOWN

mods sticky pls

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Lots of legends passing out recently

It's basically confirmed at this point
We need a sticky right now

Boomers are going away

Holy shit.
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Surfing is for faggots.

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>posted 3 hours ago
>just 100 replies
this board is repulsive.

Yea Forums doesn't like musicians who are good at playing instruments

fuck

rip to a legend

STICKY THE THREAD YOU PIECES OF SHIT

I'm always thinking about Dick....

if it were one of those dancing chinks, the board would be shut down for a week

More like Dick Dead

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Surf rock is based and Dale played an important part in shaping the sound of 60's American guitar music. Please sticky this thread.

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I know he influenced Agent Orange whom I really like, maybe I should get more into surf stuff. F

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Fuck Pet Sounds. Fuck The Beach Boys’ transition from based surf rock to shitty pop music. Long live Dick Dale!

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theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/17/dick-dale-dies-aged-81-misirlou-pulp-fiction

pitchfork.com/news/dick-dale-surf-rock-icon-dead-at-81/

dick dale lmao
Dicks

I'm sad but happy it wasn't Hank Marvin.

RIP to a fucking legend

RIP Dick Dale I saw you play in Wellfleet a few years back. I got hammered at your show and we went down to swim at the beach after. We almost hit your bassist with the lifeguard chair. Haha rest east east legend.

Rest easy LEGEND.*

I regret how fucked up that got.

"We" as in you and Dale, or "we" as in you and whoever went with you?

We as in me and my friend. We were climbing on it and eventually tipped it over and it almost hit Dale’s bassist who is much younger than him. He may even be related. You can see him in some YouTube videos he has glasses. Dick himself was not near us the beach is down a steep sand dune we went after he was done playing but before they all left. At least this is my best recollection.

Sounds cool

All this technology and yet zoomers can't into good music.

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It was a fun but hazy night lol. One thing I can remember well was how awesome it felt to float in the the shore break while being drunk. It was like a nice rollercoaster. And Dick Dales music goes pretty much perfectly with being blackout on a beach. That and driving like a stones maniac blasting his old cds. My Hispanic neighbor even thought that was fun! Seriously RIP Dale you’ve been a big part of my life ever since my Jersey boy surfer father introduced me to you. Go easy man.

Yes, they really are retarded.

Probably should be stickies just for his experimenting with Fender on playing loud as fuck. Even if you don’t care for surf music in particular. This guy pioneered some shit.

RIP to a legend

and all you brainlet zoomers- your idol's idol was dick dale. eat a dick.

He also inspired every rock and metal subgenre that uses tremolo riffs.

FUCK THE BEACH BOYS
DICK DALE WAS THE REAL LEGEND OF SURF ROCK
LITERALLY THE CHADEST MUSICIAN THAT HAS EVER LIVED
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STICKY THIS, USELESS ASS MODS

Try contacting them via IRC, that worked to get Mark Hollis a sticky. I'm too dumb to do that, so someone else will have to.

>Dick the deathday boy

Pat Boone will out live Little Richard.

RIP in F, king.
Also Tribal Thunder is best Dick Dale album

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Son of a fucking bitch, he was a LIVING LEGEND man, I can't believe he's gone, that really sucks. Rest In Peace man.

>ywl be this chad

youtube.com/watch?v=Fwx2pephwKU

youtube.com/watch?v=_q75JLUAzlE

Bump for sticky

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mods just rolled through and deleted the bhad bhabie thread and didn't give dick dale a sticky

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Mods sticky pls dick Dale was a legend

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another big dog to add to the collection

No sticky? This guy was awesome. He still played live shows at least until last year.
Old man was pretty cool. rip.

Fuck mods

mods are 20yo hip hop fans, they don't care about some irrelevant dead boomer

yall need to leave, this is a zoomer board now

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lol wait until buckethead dies and he doesn't get a sticky either, white boys are gonna FREAK when it finally hits them that they've been left behind and that there's no place for them on 4channel or in mainstream culture anymore

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literally who?

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finally stickied

stop bitching about a sticky

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literally who

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Press W for who?

Such a sad story about him having to tour until his death to pay medical expenses.
Will be spinning my Dick Dale records tonight.

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WE STICKY NOW

faggot

kek

Mambo Sinuendo [Nonesuch/Perro Verde, 2003]
Before deciding whether you really want the new Ry Cooder album, try an easier question--do you really want the new Manuel Galbán album? That is, the solo debut (well, duo debut) by the guitarist-arranger of the "great" (I keep reading but not hearing) old Cuban doowop group Los Zafiros. Unless you're one of those guys who keeps up with Dick Dale, probably not. Which clears up the Ry question without even referencing clunky drummer Joachim Cooder, who should never be allowed to back one of his father's discoveries again for as long as he lives. B-

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Based dick.... :-(

>177 posts only

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You know it!
Wanna come bob on my cock?

>brians twitter is nothing but daily tributes to peers and friends who have died

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soon

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>and yet he keeps living
Hmm..

hey this is pretty good, not cringe at all

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>zoomers on Yea Forums don't even know who dick dale is
fuck this fucking board and the fucking fantano drones that inhabit it
FUCK YOU ALL
FUCK ANYONE WHO SAID W

Damn.
I bought tickets for a show he was gonna' play in two months.
RIP
He's tremolo picking with angels now.

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>some wh*toid dies
Fucking yawn...

Reminder

Didn't get a sticky:
>Michael Cimino
>Seijun Suzuki
>Nicolas Roeg
>Jacques Rivette
>Andrzej Wajda
>Andrzej Zulawski
>Vilmos Szigmond
>Etore Scola
>Abbas Kiarostami
>Tobe Hooper
>Dennis Hopper
>Jeanne Moreau
>Lauren Bacall
>Bud Spencer
>Sam Shepard
>Martin Landau
>Anne Wiazemsky
>Juraj Herz
>Milos Forman
>Vittorio Taviani
>Nelson Pereira dos Santos
>Ermanno Olmi
>Shinobu Hashimoto
>Chuckle Brother
>Mike Nichols
>Neil Simon
>Scott Wilson
>Carol Channing
>Albert Finney
>Bruno Ganz
>Stanley Donen
>Bernardo Bertolucci
>John Mahoney
>Don Rickles

Got a sticky:
>Gay nigger from HBO's vampire soap opera
>Mom from some old American sitcom
>Dad from some 80's kid comedy
>Dog from Bush's Baked Beans commercial
>Junkie retard only known for shoving a toy car up his ass
>Junkie retard only known for some faggy normie "musical" show
>Billy Crystal
>George Clooney
>Washed up old fart only famous for a 5 minutes meme role in Kubrick's worst movie
>Midget from Austin Powers
>Old Jew from the Battletoads show
>Logan Paul and KSI
>Some country redneck

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youtube.com/watch?v=56SAxtf-RTg

This video is such ridiculous 80s cheese I love it.

>Dick's Miami Vice outfit

RIP
Misirlou is a great song

>6 hours
>195 posts
wtf is this board even

unreal
he's responsible for 50% of modern guitar genres

Kys

I wonder what his birthday was like
youtube.com/watch?v=Ld-aisAWtmw

rip dick

>invented surf
>was never surpassed and died the best surf rock musician that ever lived
b for based

kys boomers

youtube.com/watch?v=76fGo5I-rXM

He was half white half Lebanese.

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cringe

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Bout fucking time, stupid mods

F, pumpkin and honey-bunny

didnt know this what the fuck, so race mixing is actually based?

The only dick dale song i've ever heard is the space mountain music. maybe i should look into some of his songs.

>He’s never watched Pulp Fiction

RIP

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Very surprised that some people on this board don't know who he is

You're forgetting that XXXTentacion didn't even get sticky. Mods just let the entire board get filled with posts about him (not hyperbole). It was truly a pathetic day.

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Who?

and yet they went and stickied Gay nigger from HBO's vampire soap opera

Yep :^)

F, may a good boy rest in peace

i was just memeing. that was a white american with white lebanese mix.

the problematic mix is always poor with poorer, or poor with middle class. in fact the poor should be literally

o7, the man was a fucking legend.

Dick Dale was essentially a clout martyr.

Everyone is claiming this was a random robbery, but it's clear what was actually happening: his killers were driven to take his life solely for the sake of clout. They wanted infamy of their own and found it in gunning down an 81-year old.

As Dick was taking his final breath, he was surrounded by kids taking video and pictures of him. Why? For clout. No one was taking his pulse, no one was calling 911, everyone was standing around with their phones out as his body was clinging to life.

The moral lesson of Dale's life story should be a cautionary tale of the horrors of social media and how it's fucked our society beyond belief.

RIP Dick. See you in Heaven.

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Yes.

youtu.be/oOoBomvuYnw

You are a potato short an x chromosome.

Literally whomst?

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Rip, based mods for sickying but I doubt this thread will break 1k

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aw shit

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Pretty much

Rest In Peace
youtube.com/watch?v=rIvfVyyqTDI

How do you not know Dick Dale?

F for Fucking legend

This legend is surfing in pussy right now. What an absolute man


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literally the man

Okay this legit made me laugh.

damn it


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F, literally made the most important guitar based music in the 20th century

RIP

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Rest In peace surfer

this

RIP Brian Wilson

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youtube.com/watch?v=HxPzQcQXnOE

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so sick, thanks for posting
>i was playing the drums on the guitar
as a drummer this was so great to hear, i keep thinking about picking up guitar and i need to do it

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Madman used 16 - 60 gauge strings.

pump it

Good to see this finally got stickied.

Based boomer. Such a cool tune that's stood the test of time.

What the fuck

Someone post a /surf/ share thread. I have 30 or 40 albums I can post.

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rip

surfers on suicide watch.

i honor this lost of legend by posting pump it by the black eyed peas.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZaI2IlHwmgQ

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i was just thinking about doing that but in all honesty i personally won't bother for a few weeks most likely. if anyone started one i'd try to contribute

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what a dick

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F to a guitar legend

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Big F, Miserlou was my first song on guitar.

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sneed

Excuse me, which one did you say you were again?

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Nice

End your worthless lives.

RIP :(

youtube.com/watch?v=Fwx2pephwKU

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Megas when

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I love you Dick you created the best music genre and I won't forget you

I mentioned this on /gg/ in like 2013 and people shit on me so hard.

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good riddance.

also he and Lana Dale Ray were married? tf?

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I'm glad I got to see him once. May he RIP. Crazy thing is he just released an album not that long ago.

get bent queers
Dick was the man

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Rip

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>In 2010, Dale said he was battling rectal cancer, and in an interview that went viral, Dale said in 2015 that “I can’t stop touring because I will die” due to medical expenses stemming from cancer treatment, diabetes and renal failure. “I have to raise $3,000 every month to pay for the medical supplies I need to stay alive, and that’s on top of the insurance that I pay for,” Dale said at the time.

US healthcare system is not ideal obviously

MOMMY!!!
vimeo.com/324867805

that sucks
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Say "Dick Dale Died" 10 times really fast.

That's awful, he was a true chad. If I remember the guy had been touring to pay his medical bills despite being nearly 80. At least he doesn't have to worry anymore.

>be Richard Dale, c.mid 1930s
>grow-up with musical Eastern European parents
>learn all these weird Eastern European scales from the senpai
>start playing dad's accordion as a child, and eventually pick up the guitar because America
>blow away the neighborhood with you skills, then the city, pretty soon you're playing all over the state
>new guitar company called Fender sponsors you
>makes you your own guitar
>you're lefty but play the guitar upside down it's fine
>you begin to rock-out, inspired by the likes of Chuck Berry and Little Richard
>doesn't quite catch-on because weird Romanian scales
>Fender builds you the most powerful guitar amp ever made
>you blow it
>They make you an even more powerful one
>you blow it
>pretty soon you're blasting the world's first 100W amp
>more powerful than any PA system, peoples' faces melt at your shows
>Fender builds you an amp rig with a spring reverb tank
>Little Richard is passé, Elvis is playing for MILFs
>Rocking your Strat, your 100W amp and spring reverb with your crazy scales
>you accidentally invent Surfer Rock with this sound
>10yr old Jimmy Hendrix wants to be you, picks up a righty strat and plays it the way you do because he loves you
>you never stop
>over the decades you slow down only to beat cancer, twice
>2019
>you're 81
>everyone else quit or died a long time ago
>you are a legend

RIP Dick Dale, so many giants stood on your shoulders.

youtu.be/XnreN5LsjvQ

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this

Based

wtf I was literally listening to him yesterday

RIP

Fucking his 13 year old cousin was the key to immortality

how old was he when he fucked her and can he teach me how to woo a 13 year old girl

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fuck that's pretty heavy now

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youtube.com/watch?v=H0aZSo0Vsvs

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What the fuck is up with 2019 lads? Mark Hollis, Keith Flint, now him.
Brian Wilson watch out and be safe, please.

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based

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who?

May he tremolo his way to heaven, RIP

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sweet dreams

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good riddance, i hope power chords die along with him

>power chords

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Fuck off brainlet

>thread up for 18 hours
>only 309 replies

lol no one cares about this literally who

this

I still haven't learned miserlou. RIP Dick Dale

this isnt fucking okay. gonna put all his albums on as tribute

hard F

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>If I remember the guy had been touring to pay his medical bills despite being nearly 80.
Yep.

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Dick Dale was the greatest Guitarist I've ever seen live. The man was a total master of his instrument. No fucking wah pedal just string bending and reverb. The guy did things that would have made Malmsteen cry. The dude changed way the guitar was approached in popular music. He influenced Hendrix. Fuck. I'm going to miss him.

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I'll credit Dick Dale for steering me away from butt-dad-rock and into actually interesting guitar music.

Just proof this board is full of plebeians with poor taste

FUCK

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>Not knowing Dick Dale
How do i know he is a Hip Hop head

Thanks for the surf jams fren, you were truly the best

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Check out
Dick Dale & The Del-Tones
Man or Astro Man?
Atomic Mosquitos
Los Straitjackets

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another dead mayo is always a good thing

F from eight¢han. Funny this happens the next day the mega autist shoots up the mosques.

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youtube.com/watch?v=NDohpjD1jvA

mild kek

how come the US gov didnt fund him, he was a music hero.

This is nearly as big as losing Link Wray. I'm thankful I got to see him live. Dude was the real deal. At a time when people were still exploring the possibilities of what an electric guitar could do in rock music he came up with a powerful and unique voice for it. And while he was no Hendrix level genius he could legitimately claim to have been an influence on him as well as countless other guitarists who came after. Exaggerating that a bit in blustery interviews was part of his thing, but in person he was genuine and truly thankful for the appreciation of the fans who came out to see him play. And he was one hell of a player. Rest in peace, DD.