Dick Dale & the Del-Tones - King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
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Artist: Dick Dale & the Del-TonesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1989-08-04
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Let's Go Trippin'
- Shake 'N' Stomp
- Misirlou - Dick Dale, Tauber, Chaim
- Mr. Peppermint Man - Dick Dale, Willis, Alonzo
- Surf Beat
- Take It Off
- King Of The Surf Guitar
- Hava Nagila - Dick Dale, Traditional
- Riders in the Sky - Dick Dale, Jones, Stan
- The Wedge
- Night Rider
- Mr. Eliminator
- The Victor
- Taco Wagon
- Tidal Wave
- Banzai Washout - Dick Dale, Douglas, Steve
- One Double One Oh!
- Pipeline - Dick Dale, Spickard, Bob
Music reviews of King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
Music Review: One of My Favorite Albums
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a shining example of classic surf guitar. The songs composed by Dale are great, but I enjoyed the covers much more. I was surprised to find a cover of Hava Nagila and I loved the fast paced rendition of (Ghost) Riders in the Sky. Pipeline features Stevie Ray Vaughn and sounds like a dual between him and Dale. The majority of the songs are instrumental except for Mr. Peppermint Man and King of the Surf Guitar, so don't expect lyrics. This is a great compilation and nice introduction to surf guitar.
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This collection rightly concentrates on Dale's instrumental exploits as the Jimi Hendrix of surf music. Nineteen sixty-one's "Let's Go Trippin'" was the first real surf instrumental, although the pyrotechnic fretwork of later Dale records is largely absent. Those divebomb runs, reverb drenchings, and impossibly quick picking displays materialize on the next single, "Shake & Stomp," then bloom on the revved-up Middle-Eastern standard "Misirlou." Dale's instrumentals generally fell into two camps: standard-progression frat blasts ("Take It Off," "Night Rider," "Mr. Eliminator") and minor-key Middle-Eastern excursions ("The Wedge," the "Pipeline"-esque "Banzai Wipeout," "The Victor," even "Hava Nagila"--which Jewish purists must have regarded as a hora of Babylon), on which his blistering technique was more likely to find its spotlight Some of his best work is found on "King of the Surf Guitar," a Duane Eddy knockoff with great vocals by the Blossoms garnished by lightning flashes of boss guitar. With all the dazzling axe-work on display (also including a beautiful 1987 duet with Stevie Ray Vaughan on the Chantays' unearthly "Pipeline"), the coolest cut here may be the sole vocal, "Mr. Peppermint Man," on which Dale's rasp oozes a concupiscent slime over the murky tale of a lollipop Lothario who "carries a little sign that says, Have some dessert." Frat rock godhead. --Ken BarnesGeneral CDs
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