Dick Dale - Let's Go Trippin'

[rudewey]

SURFIN BABE!!

[9graff9]

SUURFFF

[Jackoroth]

Never trip then surf, you'll drown.

[lollerskater]

STOCKWELL

[MISFITROBBY138]

"magic trip"

[syleriam]

Holy Music¡¡¡

[revedmusic]

I lived in Balboa, Newport Beach  and a block away was the "Rondevous Ball Room" on the beach where Dick Dale played every week end. He filled the big ball room and this was his most popular song at the time. The ball room burned down over 40 years ago and was replaced with "The Rondevous Condominiums". But in the early 60s We surfed all day then danced all night. At the time he was already a living legend but only in Southern Calif.

[TheUniqueFrequency]

I think it is safe to say that Dick Dale is by far one of the most awesome people to ever exist. He's in his mid 70s and still plays concerts and hasn't sold himself out to the big, nasty music industries of today. Keep the surf going, Dick Dale, for we surf to you, man. :D

[SuperWutang12]

like this if your not from the 50,60,70,80 and you still liek this.. surfs up!

[eftey]

The incredible sax part was done by Barry Rilero. Is he still alive?

[fancymaxrocks]

1:56

[Jakpeacemaker]

i mean we have what's in the first picture

[Jakpeacemaker]

my dad has that same one

we also know the guy

[scmshtbrady]

i need that image at 1:49 to be a giant poster on my bedroom wall...and that guitar in my hands, also....

[TheDman216]

This is awesome

[Rob42dXb]

The beggining reminds me of the credits song of spongebob

[CrudeDude]

Dick Dale was here last week

Grants Pass, Oregon!

[MSTFreak]

First surf instrumental... Are you guys forgetting link wray?

[fbenenati]

@MSTFreak Technically, Link Wray's "Rumble" came out in 1958, which in SoCal, was about three years before the surf craze hit there. I don't know about you, but I grew up out there in the 50's and 60's right near Santa Monica Beach and Venice Beach and did surf. Let's go trippin came out in 1961 or 1962, right when the surf craze did hit. It was still not quite the craze in 1958. Link Wray's "Rumble" was a great song too, but it had a different beat to it than surf music did.

[RiceKiller191]

When did Dick Dale's first Album Come out? This is like my first time really listening to I'm but i've known about him for a long long time. This guys Great i wish i wouldda listened to him sooner!

[fbenenati]

@RiceKiller191 Best guess I have is either late 1961 or 1962.

[pseudokowski]

@RiceKiller191 This is his first single which was released 31st of may 1958, in 1962 his first LP Surfers Choice was released..Hope this helps.

[Sbrownlee]

Link Wray was doing this kind of stuff a few years before Dick Dale.......

[da60sman]

PS I was listening to these 45's on my Sears turntable. And in '62 when I got my first stereo.

[da60sman]

Love the song!! but - - I credit the drummer Sandy Nelson with being the 1st instrumental surf sound. Quoting his bio "Sandy Nelson was the biggest -- and one of the few -- star drummers of the late '50s and early '60s era in which instrumental rock was at its peak. He landed two Top Ten hits, "Teen Beat" (1959) and "Let There Be Drums" (1961), which surrounded his Gene Krupa-inspired solos with cool, mean guitar licks that were forerunners of the surf sound." Note the '59 date for "Teen Beat"

[moonchild4202006]

Dick Dale's the man, he's the reason I surf and I truely appriciate his music in my 20's

[jwallace911]

PRopz

[hxo20292]

I don't know if this was the first surf instrumental. "Underwater" by The Frogmen and "Mr Moto" by the Belairs pre-date this record.

[scil22]

Dick Dale got the name of this song from the people who came to see him Play. They would lets go trippin to see Dale Play. It is in his book...

[newbeachinvasion]

Wow, I had no idea that dick dale strung his guitar the opposite way until now... He's an even bigger badass than I thought!

[surfrider1962]

Great D.D. I own the single !!!

[albivinehart]

lovely memories of john peel to with this one too

[Mclovin171]

TheDailySmoker

[crhistian73]

Basic basic basic to surf music! Thanks a lot!!

[wfhpower]

saturday morning radio4

[PlatoTheForms]

scooby doo

[franzchick66]

great song to dance to.

[starncat]

Gotta love this'

[4dojo]

isn't there the disco version?

[ant1ph0n]

ya know, mgmt's track "it's working" off their new album has some subtle surf rock influences. hate it or love it, decide to listen first and bite your tongue.

[MzRoslyn]

Wow! This is really memories to us of the mid-sixties (age) and from the early sixties. I was a bouncer at the Pavalon.

I don't believe that "trippin" had any lsd connotation at that time. It was just a bit before Tim Leary.

The header at the top right says that "Trippin'" was only released as a single. I believe it was actually on his first album, "Dick Dale & the Deltones" I wonder if "Mr. Peppermint Man" or "Sloop John B" is still around on You Tube?

[mwindle1973]

@MzRoslyn Trippin refers to searching for a surfing spot

[azdavidza]

you are correct, it did appear on his first album

[420weedking]

@azdavidza I HAVE THAT ALBUM !! IT'S ON THERE !! TRIPPIN' REFERS TO " HEY ! DUDES ! LIKE LET'S A TRIP (GO TO) HUNTINGTON !!! OR WHERE EVER THE SURF WAS "UP " THAT DAY !!! OH, AN PEPPERMINT MAN, SLOOP JOHN B. DEATH OF A GRIMMY....THEY'RE ON THERE !!

[Heavri]

@MzRoslyn Yeah, it's not LSD or any drugs. I think it's surf trip or something like that.

[p4rvo]

@MzRoslyn "It was just a bit before Tim Leary", haha

[rnrdemon]

@MzRoslyn

Indeed, on his first album, but not self titled, it's "Surfers' Choice".

[1990Apolo]

do you remember bob sponge this song

[6silhouette5]

Would have answered sooner, but my computer was out for repairs. Anyway, I graduated from Westminster High.

[suffern63]

What did trippin mean when he wrote the song?

[NiallTheCure]

@suffern63 taking shit loads of high grade acid. NO, i doubt it. sorry.

[blikethat]

@suffern63 brah, ima say he's talking about going surfing, during that era surfers began going long distances to find the best break, usually as a group, they called it trippin fukin awesome

[suffern63]

thanks

[SkillzThatKi11z]

@suffern63 surfing

[POLI3721]

'58 THRU 62 High School Yrs. And Yes Its One Of "HIS SONGS". He Was Playing @ RENDEZVOUS Right Off High Way 55, Which Is Now The Costa Mesa Freeway, Costa Mesa Calif. Before The Band Plays, Someone In The Club Would SHOUT"LETS GO TRIPPIN'"The Band Began To Play. The Surfer Stomp, The Dance, Originated @ THE RENDEZVOUS. 6silhouette5,What School Did You Attend? I Went To MATER DEI HIGH, Santa Ana,Ca. Class Of '62. GO MONARCHS!!

[6silhouette5]

This song is a Dick Dale original. I remember when it first came out. I was a sophomore in high school. we loved to dance to this song. Had great times at "The Pavalon skating rink on Friday nignts. It's long gone, but the building is still there at the beginning of Huntington Beach pier. It's now a restaurant.

[POLI3721]

@6silhouette5 What High School Did You Attend?

[betryke2]

wow when this song first came out how old are u dude?

[Manicz]

If there's one thing I'm going right now, it would have to be trippin'.

[oldermusiclover]

i just discovered this song not to long

ago, on a cd of serf music. LOVE IT.

Who is the awesome sax man?

[narnode]

haha spongebob theme in beginning!

[thawthepast]

L*O*V*E

[Sidewinder5O4]

this reminds me of the time i was in my school baseball team my dad would play it after each win and whole team would party. good times!

[ShannonVenasse]

dick dale was awarded with the guitar player legend award earlier this year.

[txmcxlx]

What was the flip side of this shit?

Let's go shoot up some smack?

[reelden]

I lived in L.A. and this song was so cool! was the start of some good times!

[Logik426]

is that Beach Boys song?? I found this on they album from early 60s and I don't know who wrote this song...

[TheEd78]

The Beach Boys covered this song along with "Misirlou" on their "Surfin' USA" album from 1963

[jahaziel2912]

the beginning remined me of sponge bob...

[narnode]

@jahaziel2912 haha me too! lol i love him

[SuperStIves]

Sooooooooooooo miss John Peel

this tune brings tears to my eyes.There was a time  I lived for his saturday show -it was a ray light in a bleak time.

[RonaldVaughan]

Last night LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND GARAGE played a

rare Dick Dale VOCAL...."Secret Surfing

Spot".

I can't find that song on YouTube,LOL!!

[spacepatrolman]

Was ift fast he tends to only play fast tempo numbers [when he starts talking about martin scorsece movies i shut him off.]

[Logik426]

you're gay!

[rn8393]

THAT BOY BE TRIPPIN'!!!

[itsPenguinBoy]

Oh how I miss john peel

[fbenenati]

Great surf music in the early sixties. I remember this record label like it was yesterday. I was about 16 when this came out, and I surfed to it too.

[MrSurfdog]

Nice Dicks best song that he wrote

[2commonandcoarse]

before the British invasion... there was surf guitar, and Dale was King~ happy birthday hope you get back to the pipeline soon

[Ssssstones]

Perfect title !!!!

[2commonandcoarse]

Seriously... a true pioneer of the American rockers in

[Clothahump]

Ahhh.....good old 12 bar E, A and B. Gotta love it!

[WNM52]

Always thought this would make a great soundtrack for a video about the first moon landing. Anybody ever does one, remember you got the idea here first.

[yakovgolyadkin]

I have a new goal in life: to listen to this song at a bonfire on Santa Cruz beach.

[fiscornioman]

Hey, thats not really hard.

[yakovgolyadkin]

I know. The trick to succeding in your goals is to make them simple and easily achieved. ;)

[fiscornioman]

Yeah man, i was just thinking in that while i wrote that, i was going to write it too, but then you said it, funny. xD

[vaf88]

LETS GO TRIPPIN

[alexd9999999]

Man I gotta start a surf band... ...

[ignoreyourgovernment]

That would be such an out of date idea!

Which makes it horribly...

Awesome!

[alexd9999999]

Hey the surf scenes still alive man, the surf coasters have split up but yeah the space agency and polo del marr are rocking!

[thefallinggirl]

amazing.

[metdizzle]

yessum.