He's a lefty that learned to play a right handed guitar upside down, but kept it strung like a right handed guitar. When the left handed strat came out, he strung the strings upside down.
I'm also one of those oddball guitarists...but it's always baffled me as to why it should be so damn odd? Would have thought that the vast majority of lefties, picking up a guitar for the 1st time, would likely be picking up a standard right-handed guitar, that being far more readily to hand, than a much less likely left-handed guitar just happening to be there waiting for them? Anyone ever come across a right hander playing a standard left-handed guitar upside down by the way??
I've seen Dick for the past 15 years every time I had the chance. This is about as close to an actual "Smoke on the Water" as he would get, meaning that he ALWAYS threw in a bunch of other stuff. Sam Bolle, his bass player, said that he had to watch every second because Dick would go anywhere he wanted, and throw it to Sam for solos at a moment's notice. Wonderful stuff; we have lost a true giant of music!!
I've spoken with Sam Bolle a few times before and after gigs. He says that at any time, Dick would point to him, and he simply "took it" until Dick decided to get back in. Yes, he improvised constantly!
I think that the order of the songs are like this: 1. Shake and Stomp 2. Death of a Gremmie 3. Smoke on the water 4. Peter Gunn 5. Hot Links: Caterpillar Crawl
@@surfrocker2545 I grew up in Santa Ana, Calif....saw a LOT of live events at the Rendezvous Ball room in balboa.. At one time, Fender and Rickenbacher were made in Santa Ana....
By far the best cover of Smoke On The Water I've ever heard. Has the energy and style that every other rendition is lacking. Same goes for Rumble. Only Mr. Dale could match Link Wray's rawness. RIP Dick!
No one but Dick Dale is King of the Surf Guitar. He was like The Ventures in one guitar or Deep Purple in one guitar. It makes perfect sense that he took up martial arts as the guru of reverb consciousness. Misirilou was the only reason I got a '64 Fender Jaguar and he passed away a half hour's drive from me RIP, King.
I pulled into home base in fountain valley in 1980 and Dick Dale pulled in directly behind me in a 56 Nomad station wagon blue and white with Deltones on the license plate. He got out and I walked up and recognized him and shook his hand. Cool dude. Rip
We just witnessed a true genius and legend at work. DICK DALE Will be missed .... Stratocaster God Stratocaster genius. This legend must have nickel silver running in his veins. The man may be gone but his music will never die. Rock on good buddy.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
A great guy, you had to love him. We were in the Air Guard 5 years and Airforce 1.5 years He had a Harley D. flat head and I had Triumph 500. Rich Selfridge What a ball.
I'd say 'medley', I heard a number of really fine tunes in there. Outstanding guitarist, real original. Sorry he's gone, but the recordings are still here for everybody.
And people thought Massachusetts only brought you Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, Teddy Ballgame, Bobby Orr, Larry Bird, JFK, Boston, The Cars, and Aerosmith !!!
I have been heavily influenced by Dick Dale and if not for him I would not being playing guitar in the first place. He is truly one of the greatest living guitarists
Everyone talks about the tone, the sound. But for me, he was a ferocious player, his shredding matching up with any Metal guitarist of the 1980s or later.
@CanadaRoksEh Me and my symphony played with him in concert. He doesnt use a tuner or piano to tune his strings. He says that he uses the vibrations of the string when he strums it to tune it. He can tune the instrument by the vibration. Freakin amazing haha. He tested each string and after a few minutes, it was perfectly tuned.
it just takes a decently trained ear to tune a guitar, no tuner required. But you can't do it to a piano fer crissakes. what kind of symphony you got there?
@@radiodiffusionfrancaise1591 Sure you can tune a guitar to a piano. Hit the e key. Pluck the e string. Anybody with a good ear can tell whether the plucked e string is flat or high compared to the e note played on the piano. Then you can tune the rest of the guitar from there. Without something to compare to, I can tell that my guitar is "off", but I'm not good enough to know whether it's flat or high. That's when I clip the tuner on the head -- now. Back in the day, we tuned to some other source, either a tuning fork or some other instrument that didn't go out of tune when you breathed on it.
@@TheEricleegreen this was a year ago so I'll try to reconstruct my thinking. What I mean is that sure, you can generally tune your guitar around a single note on a piano, but due to the mechanical differences between guitars and pianos you will never be perfectly in tune all up and down the keyboard or fretboard (a guitar is pretty much impossible to be in perfect tune to itself, no matter how great the intonation). This is where finger vibrato is your friend. When you get to Classical Indian music or better yet Turkish music with dozens of microtones to the octave, this kind of "tuning" will be woefully inadequate. The ear is the only way to do it. fwiw I still have a tuning fork... somewhere.
@@radiodiffusionfrancaise1591 My guitars have pretty good intonation. But I don't own cheap acoustic guitars, and my electric guitar has intonation adjusters on the strings. I use an electronic tuner to check my intonation as well as my base tuning and they're generally spot on. If your guitar has bad intonation, you need to have it adjusted by a professional. Easy enough on electrics with fully adjustable bridges, with acoustics it requires changes to the nut and bridge. The bigger problem with my guitars is that changes in humidity and temperature change their tuning. Not much to be done about that, it's the nature of a big log of wood with strings providing tension in one direction. Pianos have a more solid framework for the strings since they're not required to be portable, and thus tend to stay in tune better with changes of temperature and humidity. And of course my piano, since I live in a typical urban apartment, stays in perfect tune since it's electronic :). Bending notes to where you want them is a core guitar technique. It requires a good ear, but it also requires a base to use that ear against. If you have the base strings of a guitar tuned to a known note when open, it's pretty easy to bend a note to where you want it. Otherwise you're lost. The vibrato technique is typically used with violin-family instruments rather than with guitars, at least in the Western tradition. Violins don't have frets, but a good violinist knows where the notes are in general on his instrument and when he's going for a note gets his finger near it, then uses string bending and vibrato to dial in the note and hide the fact that he's dialing in the note. Playing a violin requires a good ear but again depends on the base tuning to be accurate in order for that ear to have a base to work against. This also is why when you have a bunch of violinists in a symphony orchestra they're tuning against each other and the other instruments, they want to insure they all have the same base. The piano, as the one instrument in a symphony orchestra that cannot be easily field-tuned, is usually used as the base because it simply has to be since it can't be changed.
pure musicianship. dick never became a multi-multi millionaire megasuperstar, because he was true to his talent. god this guy is still amazing, SMOKES page and clapton.
+gregory andonian I never thought page and clapton were as special as people make them. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're great players-much better than I can ever dream to be-but I still feel like there were better players around in their time that just don't get enough credit. Dick being one of 'em of course.
Holy fuck I just discovered surf rock and I'm fucking amazed by this guy sweet God this is some top notch guitar playing, and that drummer sweet Jesus this is pure perfection
Strung with thin strings on top - then down is up. Just a note he explains his percussive style as coming from his Polish-Lebanese folk heritage "It's the pulsation," whether playing the guitar, trumpet, or piano, "they all have that drumming beat I learned by playing the tarabaki." with his uncle playing the oud.
Dick Dale... Forever the KING of Surf Guitar...
Nice rock stars fall apart like shit when they're that old. Dick Dale is not one of them. Still fucking kills it.
Hands down the coolest tone on the planet. Nothing beats early surf rock. Dick Dale was something special.
He's a lefty that learned to play a right handed guitar upside down, but kept it strung like a right handed guitar. When the left handed strat came out, he strung the strings upside down.
Thats why he bangs on the low notes with such ease. He doesnt
"anchor" down his strumming left hand which is very hard to get good at.
Django Rheindhart had fused fingers due to a childhood fire yet could play jazz chords which feel like your picking your nose with your elbow.
Dude that plays with Roger Waters is the same.
I'm also one of those oddball guitarists...but it's always baffled me as to why it should be so damn odd? Would have thought that the vast majority of lefties, picking up a guitar for the 1st time, would likely be picking up a standard right-handed guitar, that being far more readily to hand, than a much less likely left-handed guitar just happening to be there waiting for them?
Anyone ever come across a right hander playing a standard left-handed guitar upside down by the way??
MASTER
I'm going to miss this guy! Toured until he was 81 and never was irrelevant. A King of his own world, and I love his music!
I've seen Dick for the past 15 years every time I had the chance. This is about as close to an actual "Smoke on the Water" as he would get, meaning that he ALWAYS threw in a bunch of other stuff. Sam Bolle, his bass player, said that he had to watch every second because Dick would go anywhere he wanted, and throw it to Sam for solos at a moment's notice. Wonderful stuff; we have lost a true giant of music!!
Albert Powell I can easily belive that....😁
it's obvious the 3 of them have a great rapport and Dick doesn't act like he's the star and they are just support, they play off each other
Wished I could' a seen him
@@tundratortoise9622 I saw him twice, both times were the loudest shows I've ever been to in my life.
If your playing jazz then your not exactly following the tune anyway so it’s largely open.
I like how Dick Dale rarely sings, his music just speaks for itself
Lived in California in 1964.He was the greatest guitarists then.Loved his unigue sound.
Nice. A surf rock version cover of Smoke on the Water...now I've seen it all.
Only Dick Dale could pull it off.
That was a standard of his live gigs. He often segued out of that into many other tunes.
You havent seen it all till you hear him do Amazing Grace on the acoustic...it had the entire place crying in Fairfax Ca one late night in 2006ish
@@yarygork2334 Sadly missed my chance to see him live.
In case You didn't notice....The Drummer and Bass-Player, ...THEY KNOW how to IMPROVISE !?
I've spoken with Sam Bolle a few times before and after gigs. He says that at any time, Dick would point to him, and he simply "took it" until Dick decided to get back in. Yes, he improvised constantly!
He truly was a legend and never deserved all his medical concerns. He was one of greats who will never be forgotten.Rip Dick Dale.
He made a 13 yr old...me....fall in love w the guitar...watching frankie and annette and eric von zipper....was hooked....back in 63 ....rip
I had the pleasure of seeing Dick play live in 2011. It's something I will never forget. He was incredible.
Riff In Paradise Mr Dale
Dick Dale , Unbelievable Cool , Drummer & Bass Player Very Groovy = Brilliant Concert
True
I think that the order of the songs are like this:
1. Shake and Stomp
2. Death of a Gremmie
3. Smoke on the water
4. Peter Gunn
5. Hot Links: Caterpillar Crawl
you forgot rumble
+Ian Anderson yeah you're right.
The end song is rumble by link wray
Tanks!!
When did he play Peter Gunn? I didn't hear that at all
RIP You will be missed.
Heaven just got drenched in reverb. RIP Dick Dale: We miss you!
His tone alone is legendary
Nothing like surfin' to Smoke on the Water...Dick Dale is the best Dick Dale guitarist I ever heard... innovator not an imitator.
And with Chewing Gum! RIP Dick Dale, a great showman.
Not only can he chew and play at same time...he will PULL IT OUT AND SHOW ya!
RIP Rick ! Left is right when it comes to the guitar. M
Loved him,what a legend,sad😢
Yeah, Dick Dale and Jimi were lefties...
@@dougankrum3328 AND both played the Fender guitar. (Jimmy Page did as well in the early days with Led Zeppelin.)
@@surfrocker2545 I grew up in Santa Ana, Calif....saw a LOT of live events at the Rendezvous Ball room in balboa.. At one time, Fender and Rickenbacher were made in Santa Ana....
I love that he had a pick dispenser on his guitar, i read once that he played so hard that the picks melted.
great video! Dick Dale, and
the drummer and Sam Bolle (bassist) are having a good time, too! Thanks for sharing Guitar Center!
The drummer is a monster! Wonderful stuff, sir!
By far the best cover of Smoke On The Water I've ever heard. Has the energy and style that every other rendition is lacking. Same goes for Rumble. Only Mr. Dale could match Link Wray's rawness. RIP Dick!
Clearly one of the best guitar guitar pickers ever
1.Shake and Stomp
2.Death of a Gremmie
3.Smoke on the Water
4.Peter Gunn
5. Hot Links : Caterpillar Crawl
6.Rumble
The man lives to play, and he plays to live
I grew up in Southern California with this music. Love it.
Always make it back to this rockin' video. Such a unique and badass artist, with great talent behind him!
I,M PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!
Ride the waves up there, Surf King. Your guitar will echo in the universe until the end of times.
Dick Dale is The King of the Surf Guitar and the greatest Surf Guitar player in the world
No one but Dick Dale is King of the Surf Guitar. He was like The Ventures in one guitar or Deep Purple in one guitar. It makes perfect sense that he took up martial arts as the guru of reverb consciousness. Misirilou was the only reason I got a '64 Fender Jaguar and he passed away a half hour's drive from me RIP, King.
Just a damn shame losing legends. Peace be with him and his. Surf is Staying Up.
'I came here to chew bubble gum and kick some ass...' and Dick Dale did
And I was enjoying Shake and Stomp...
Always inspired by his sound RIP Mr Dale
These sessions are AWESOME.
For the next 50 years or so there will be people who can say "I played with Dick Dale" and they will instantly earn everyone's respect. RIP Dick Dale.
I pulled into home base in fountain valley in 1980 and Dick Dale pulled in directly behind me in a 56 Nomad station wagon blue and white with Deltones on the license plate. He got out and I walked up and recognized him and shook his hand. Cool dude. Rip
That's my year...and I love Wagons too !
Man, that transition from Smoke on the Water to Raw Power was perfect.
We just witnessed a true genius and legend at work.
DICK DALE Will be missed ....
Stratocaster God
Stratocaster genius.
This legend must have nickel silver running in his veins.
The man may be gone but his music will never die.
Rock on good buddy.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
RIP, Dick! The world will always remember you!
RIP sir. NO ONE sounds like this.
Tears to my eyes.
A great guy, you had to love him. We were in the Air Guard 5 years and Airforce 1.5 years He had a Harley D. flat head and I had Triumph 500. Rich Selfridge What a ball.
so kewl to hear from people he knew! thanks for this
He will be missed and people of the younger generations should realise just how good he was!
Surfin' the smoke on the water
I'd say 'medley', I heard a number of really fine tunes in there. Outstanding guitarist, real original. Sorry he's gone, but the recordings are still here for everybody.
RIP Dick, you are great!
its so cool watching them conversate in the middle of the performance and watching the drummer's face.
Thanks for the music.
Always fascinated by guitarists who play with stings upside down.
Very cool! RIP God of Surf!
Doyle Bramhall II plays with the heavy strings in the bottom as well... Never knew Mr. Dale did this... Very cool...
He's a legend but still jokes around with his niece.. great guy, RIP.
....IT'S GREAT TO SEE SOMEONE "DIGGIN' LIFE" RIGHT TO THE END!!!! SURF ON!!!!!
Dick Dale is one of the greatest guitar players, I've ever heard - yeah
This man will never cease to amaze me.How is he not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?RIP Great One.⭐
And people thought Massachusetts only brought you Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, Teddy Ballgame, Bobby Orr, Larry Bird, JFK, Boston, The Cars, and Aerosmith !!!
The HOF is a joke.
One of the greats and influencers RIP
Outstanding!
King of Surf forever.
so cool that he ends with a Link Wray tune
he must have loved link
nice showing of respect
love it
RIP Dick, what a talent and ground breaker.
great production, good stuff thumbs up
Very interesting. Goodbye, sorry to see you go. That was awesome.
I have been heavily influenced by Dick Dale and if not for him I would not being playing guitar in the first place. He is truly one of the greatest living guitarists
:^(
Holy crap! Who can top this!?!
Smoke on the Water....surf style.......WOW!!!!!
I watch the video to see Dick Dale and was realy impressed with the drummer . gots't to be hard to follow Dick Dale
Chewing gum at 6:30 - Wowsa! RIP Dick Dale, king of surf music
I'm lefty but I cannot play with strings upside down. With all my respect Sir Dick Dale !
The man was amazing! Rest In Peace
Rest in peace legend.
All I can say is WOW!!!
Everyone talks about the tone, the sound. But for me, he was a ferocious player, his shredding matching up with any Metal guitarist of the 1980s or later.
Deep Purple + Dick Dale = Heaven!!!
Purple dick
But man, that drummer. I mean he litteraly nailed it!
R.I.P. legend!
This is so awesome!
goddamn! amazing! rest in peace Mr.Dale.
LINK WRAY RUMBLE
He must be the first who showed just what a strat can do.
2:30 smoke on the water
The Drummer and other Guitarist looked a bit sweaty at the end, but Dale, not so much. Super effort by all. Thank you!
2019 : We lost Dick Dale
2020 : We lost Eddie van Halen
R.I.P legends
@CanadaRoksEh Me and my symphony played with him in concert. He doesnt use a tuner or piano to tune his strings. He says that he uses the vibrations of the string when he strums it to tune it. He can tune the instrument by the vibration. Freakin amazing haha. He tested each string and after a few minutes, it was perfectly tuned.
it just takes a decently trained ear to tune a guitar, no tuner required. But you can't do it to a piano fer crissakes. what kind of symphony you got there?
@@radiodiffusionfrancaise1591 Sure you can tune a guitar to a piano. Hit the e key. Pluck the e string. Anybody with a good ear can tell whether the plucked e string is flat or high compared to the e note played on the piano. Then you can tune the rest of the guitar from there.
Without something to compare to, I can tell that my guitar is "off", but I'm not good enough to know whether it's flat or high. That's when I clip the tuner on the head -- now. Back in the day, we tuned to some other source, either a tuning fork or some other instrument that didn't go out of tune when you breathed on it.
@@TheEricleegreen this was a year ago so I'll try to reconstruct my thinking. What I mean is that sure, you can generally tune your guitar around a single note on a piano, but due to the mechanical differences between guitars and pianos you will never be perfectly in tune all up and down the keyboard or fretboard (a guitar is pretty much impossible to be in perfect tune to itself, no matter how great the intonation). This is where finger vibrato is your friend. When you get to Classical Indian music or better yet Turkish music with dozens of microtones to the octave, this kind of "tuning" will be woefully inadequate. The ear is the only way to do it. fwiw I still have a tuning fork... somewhere.
@@radiodiffusionfrancaise1591 My guitars have pretty good intonation. But I don't own cheap acoustic guitars, and my electric guitar has intonation adjusters on the strings. I use an electronic tuner to check my intonation as well as my base tuning and they're generally spot on. If your guitar has bad intonation, you need to have it adjusted by a professional. Easy enough on electrics with fully adjustable bridges, with acoustics it requires changes to the nut and bridge.
The bigger problem with my guitars is that changes in humidity and temperature change their tuning. Not much to be done about that, it's the nature of a big log of wood with strings providing tension in one direction. Pianos have a more solid framework for the strings since they're not required to be portable, and thus tend to stay in tune better with changes of temperature and humidity. And of course my piano, since I live in a typical urban apartment, stays in perfect tune since it's electronic :).
Bending notes to where you want them is a core guitar technique. It requires a good ear, but it also requires a base to use that ear against. If you have the base strings of a guitar tuned to a known note when open, it's pretty easy to bend a note to where you want it. Otherwise you're lost.
The vibrato technique is typically used with violin-family instruments rather than with guitars, at least in the Western tradition. Violins don't have frets, but a good violinist knows where the notes are in general on his instrument and when he's going for a note gets his finger near it, then uses string bending and vibrato to dial in the note and hide the fact that he's dialing in the note. Playing a violin requires a good ear but again depends on the base tuning to be accurate in order for that ear to have a base to work against. This also is why when you have a bunch of violinists in a symphony orchestra they're tuning against each other and the other instruments, they want to insure they all have the same base. The piano, as the one instrument in a symphony orchestra that cannot be easily field-tuned, is usually used as the base because it simply has to be since it can't be changed.
Oh my god this is the guitar center I go to!!!
Surf in the water, of course..
such a god damn legend
I bet that gum never lost its flavor. Dick sure never lost his. A legend. Rest in peace.
pure musicianship. dick never became a multi-multi millionaire megasuperstar, because he was true to his talent. god this guy is still amazing, SMOKES page and clapton.
+gregory andonian I never thought page and clapton were as special as people make them. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're great players-much better than I can ever dream to be-but I still feel like there were better players around in their time that just don't get enough credit. Dick being one of 'em of course.
The man plays the guitar backwards for crying out loud =))
+aryo borzin Taheri HE is a master.
EXACTLY. Alvin Lee, Randy California, Leslie West and Wayne Kramer to name a few.
gregory andonian He smokes Van Halen!
Holy fuck I just discovered surf rock and I'm fucking amazed by this guy sweet God this is some top notch guitar playing, and that drummer sweet Jesus this is pure perfection
Where ya been ? Listening to fucking rap all your life ??
Wow! he is really really good!
Wow!!! He bends the strings down too!!!
whatever sounds good dude
Strung with thin strings on top - then down is up. Just a note he explains his percussive style as coming from his Polish-Lebanese folk heritage "It's the pulsation," whether playing the guitar, trumpet, or piano, "they all have that drumming beat I learned by playing the tarabaki." with his uncle playing the oud.
Brilliantl!
How many players can actually play a guitar that has been strung backwards, besides Dick Dale?
Jimi Hendrix my man
Eric Gales late great Albert King Doyle Bramhall ll
@@borgazorg5328
Jimis were still strung normally. High e on bottom like everyone else. He played a righty guitar upside down but restrung proper.
EPIC!!!
Can you imagine what these two other players were thinking to themselves? Something along the lines of "Holy hell, I'm playing with Dick Dale!!"
Rest in peace Dick Dale