Dick Dale - Pipeline/Surf Beat Medley

[thebone927]

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[richmid1]

Dick is 74. He,s on the road again after beating cancer for the 3rd time.Damn near got him this last time.Even at 74 I doubt if there are many who can shred like he does.He,s doing an electric acoustic tour with his son Jimmy right now-mostly west coast & up into Canada.

[nivram59]

RIPPIN"....

[Terrorizer89]

I didn't know he did this. Agent Orange did a version of pipeline too.

[8Zeitgeist]

@Terrorizer89 yeah so did 50 million other people ;)

[barefootjaime]

Happy 73rd Birthday Dick!

[Zyolish]

i saw him in December and he told us he was 77...

[lynettewoodct]

Cool. The Chantays went to our school and we all danced to the surf sound. Dick Dale was the king. Everyone surfed.

[chocolatcats]

I made him a blue ocean frosting cake when I was 13 and he loved it.. then I worked w/ him on "Back to the Beach"

love the man.

[kakashiitachisonlome]

surf yeahhhhhhhhhhhh ☺

[BILLPERKS5]

REALLY "SHredding"!! This Dudes' Got To be in HIS -- LATE '60s!  Theres' Hope For th' Rest of US!!

[000mundaka]

hes 72. im catching him in vancouver early july.

[JukeboxHeartbreak91]

i went to that too!!

[Tidefan324]

He's 71. =)

[predatortap]

nope but close he turned 72 on may 4th

[okpeoples]

his in his 70's now.

[ozgribbo]

It isn't the most clinically recorded clip I've heard but I like distortion on Fenders

[jfunkfinger69]

the sound is bloody awful

[ps3matty]

Dick Dale ain't the king of Surf Guitar. He's the GOD of it.

[Diplodoco]

He's ain't joking man...

Be careful with that guitar!

[atomicFlyer]

Awsome! The guy is hard charging!

[SRSattern]

Was this shot at Gabe's Oasis in Iowa city, IA!? If so then I was there. I only ask because of the exit to the rear of the stage and the stickers plastered everywhere!

[surfrider1962]

Hi! It seems that Dick will come across for a European Tour this year (instead of the last one) accompanied by certains Surfaris' musicians.

Hope to see you soon in Belgium.

Hit the road, Dick!

Stephan

[Surfinstro]

Dick sounded Best with Dusty & Sammy behind him...

[supertzarsabbath]

he plays his guitar backwards which is amazing

[Zepfan976]

If thats the way you learn it then whats so hard?

[5388694]

its not backword, he's left handed using a lefty ax

[plug101]

but the strings are strung "upside down" to normal

[5388694]

your right, i don't know how you picked that up from this bad video but i think i can see it now. wouldn't have notice if u hadn't pointed it out. how did u see that?? but i'm right, it is a lefty axe but strung backwards.

i take it u play, yes?

[plug101]

haha actually i noticed on a higher quality vid...pretty cool how he does it...yes I play, just started getting into surf stuff though...its my new phase...my last phase was Ratt/Dokken/Autograph type stuff lol...you play too?

[5388694]

yeh, i do...but in different phases...play for six months , off for six more. been doing it that way the past few years

[plug101]

haha good stuff...i'm kinda like that sometimes as well..rock on

[redstarboard]

No kidding. wow. I think the late, great Albert King played the same way. I guess its not that different if thats how you learned...but its still unreal.

[jayscott49]

total original. i understand his mom is Lebanese, and that music influenced his approach to guitar.

[zerocool204]

his uncle was a mandolin player and he adapted that playing style to guitar.

[Khaled1Rules]

No, his uncle played an oud, the Arab guitar.

[sprimusp]

His father was Lebonese, and yes to the other part.

[PeterSGuitar]

He seems to get better with age.

[ryantunks]

Go Dick! Go!

[akseakayaker]

I must agree The Surfaris did indeed move the surfin' music sound ahead and helped cross into the mainstream hits. But even today Dick still plays gigs. He not only can play the guitar but is very accomplished many other instruments.

[pizzaemandolino]

Sam & dusty are machine!! no comment for the king!

[wolneton]

dick dale es dios... a webo

[bittertea]

Sooo~ was hands on right on drugs?

[KennyandtheSkull]

dick showed jimi how to play.

[1400deadwood]

cool!

[dragster58]

AWESOME VID!!!

[freezazoid]

yeah it's actually dick dale, but for some reason it's just not authentic... It sounds like any cover band in L.A. doing surf music. He should make it more old school. Fender amp, and an old slingerland drum kit.

[predatortap]

it's because your watching it on video instead of in person. When you are right in front of the stage at one of his shows you can feel the power and force he plays with

[dragster58]

I'm dead sure about that man!!! :)

[zaohad1]

Look out for nitro its on here

Pretty awesome.

[akseakayaker]

Dick Dale sounding like a cover band doing surf music in LA? Dick Dale was the dude who started the whole surfin' music seen. It was Dick who did it first. All the other surf bands came along and copied his sound/style. He can and never be anything but who he is, the godfather of surf guitar

[rorygg1]

dick using the old showman cabinets and amps leo fender gave him, he'll make your  ears bleed, ventures are awesome too

[PeterB1974]

It's him alright, using two old Fender Showman's.

[slyfan64]

I can play this on the piano!...only a lot less impresive on piano

[jma128]

Listen to "The Wedge" and "The Victor" by him. Those are phenomenal.

[jma128]

Surf music is just plain awesome!

[trebor95405]

yah baby!!!! reminds me of 4th grade!!

[KryzWalker]

Its

Pipeline

[tonykelvin]

THE KINGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[detcrockett]

This is "Pipeline".....I used to try learning it on the piano & I didn't know back then, but I was playing it too slow.....my mom thought it was hilarious..... but it's an awesome song!

[fafsa89]

awesome!

[Jaylectricity]

Just look to the right under related videos and you will find a few versions of Misirlou.

[Jaylectricity]

It's funny reading you guys argue over whether or not this is misirlou...It so obviously is not.  But then again most of you probably think all reggae sounds the same too.

[predatortap]

it is all right there in the tital he starts with Pipeline and then goes to Surf Beat which is the name of the song he plays in the second part of it. And DonPaps everyone has the right to like what they want the best but instrumentally Jimi could not do what Dick can do that is why he is the one who looked up to Dick as sort of A father figure

[gigharborguy]

Right -- both are easy to pick out. Surf Beat is the first cut from his first and best album, Surfer's Choice and, until Misirlou got a new life through use in movies, was his signature instrumental.

[ctrunzo]

It's a little bit of a lot of things. Certainly it starts off with a riff from Pipeline, then it jumps into Let's Go Trippin' and then into a rather pipeline-esqe riff on the low E and A strings, and then off in some entirely different direction for a while. I agree, though, that it surely is not Miserlou.

[AgentMurphy286]

people it's not either song. Miserlou is the song that they used for the theme in pulp fiction. pipeline was written by the Chantays, Dick Dale wrote a song that sounded like it called Let's go Trippin'. This is also is not this song. Sadly I don't know what it is though.

[AgentMurphy286]

ignore the last two sentences it is Let's go Trippin'

[IamRG]

Miserlou is an old Greek folk song but I like Dick Dale's version, anytime !

[predatortap]

Dick's grandpa used to sing Miserlou to him back when he was A kid the intensity he plays it with just feflects his music comming from the power of the ocean and nature which is what he bases his music on

[IamRG]

predatortap, thanks.. I always see his show everytime he performs here in NYC,

he's great LIVE !

[predatortap]

so you were probably in BB Kings with me June 4th 2005 if you remember Dick stoping to shake someones hand when he first came out that was me

[MsMOXIEmusic]

I was there for that show!! I was so jealus of you !!

[predatortap]

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[weewees1]

@predatortap I will have a look for Daisy Grenades

[badjackbrowning5]

you can compare him to hendrix in that hendrix called him and herbert sumlin his favorite guitarists of all time. And this is Pipeline... not Miserlou

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

Okay guys. It's "MIRILOU," Not Pipeline.

[JohnnyFriendly]

Actually, it IS "Pipeline"

[KP5000]

that's "misirlou" ... and it's both combined, actually.

[YoMamaLiz]

I love this song, but I liked the tempo better on the original version.

Faster isn't always better

[cysticfibrosis]

listen to ANS skate nazis must die

[MartinKitcher]

Check out the Pashuns as well" Surf Nazis Must Die" video, if you like Dick Dale you will love them. I didnt know Dick dale was left handed either crudbud.

[paulpsyche]

The best brotha!!!

[ponut]

Este tío es Dios. Si hace un concierto en Avilés flipo en colores, y no la basura de Ana Torroja

[billygtexas]

Dick Dale (and Link Wray) invented punk music.

[daddyogrande]

try this guy then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=A1VcM2Tkzzc

[crudbud]

Wow, I never knew that he was left handed.

[Arthounot]

left handed, and he flipped his guitar, Low is low ;-).

And not like Hendrix he kept his strings that way...

[DonPaps]

He is really REALLY cool, but u can't compare to Hendrix, imho.

[Arthounot]

Are am I comparing anything else than holding the guitar upside down? No..

[predatortap]

actually Hendrix went to Dicks shows in Balboa and worshiped him. He learned A lot of the stuff he know from Dick.

[DonPaps]

This is a twisted dialog ... I'm talking about turning the strings and what u can do with or without that. And cool Hendrix learned from him, and probably from others, and I myself didn't reinvent the art of playing the guitar, but in my very humble opinion, Hendrix was much more resourceful than Dale, and I'm not saying that this is not good. Musically, I don't think it's something I'd compare, like someone saying that Satriani is better than Hendrix or Steve Vai better than Paco de Lucia.

[ringrunner]

I never knew he was a punk too