He is saying that he only had one guitar in his life and that Leo gave him this guitar (a Strat) in 55. But in 55 there was no rosewood fingerboard Fender guitar. He is so full of shit. But great music.
R.I.P DICK DALE!! We will miss you down here but I know every time I look up in the sky and see what people say is a jet stream. It's really the wake of Dick Dale surfing the clouds!!!!
He helped Leo inventing the echoplex now. Even if Leo didn't invent it. And he teach Hendrix a thing or two. In a video he says that he is considered the father of heavy metal. Sometimes he says that he was considered the father of loud.
When he says he's only had one guitar all his life, he's exaggerating, right? As I understand the story, he already knew how to play upside down guitar when he met Leo. All the earlier photos of Dick he's playing a white Strat with red pickguard. Is it the same guitar refinished or was it a different guitar?
Dick Dale talks about how he changed the color of his guitar every couple weeks cuz kids would copy him so that thing probably has about 20 layers of paint on it. The wood itself is so encased in the lacquer paint it is very well-preserved even with 20 layers of lacquer it's probably only a fraction as thick of finish as the polyurethane they put on nowadays. A good guitar and just gets better and better the more you play it. It is amazing that that neck stood up to the torture after all these years of monster gauge strings
desconectadodelaweb 8 años tarde pero básicamente que en vez de jalar las cuerdas solamente les da un toque hacia arriba y abajo con la uñeta y que esa técnica se la enseño a Jimi Hendrix y a Stevie Ray Vaughan, también que esa guitarra se la dio Leo Fender y la tiene desde 1955.
Мне всегда не нравится, когда люди начинают учить тому, что кто-либо и без их уроков делает хорошо. Вот также и Дика пытались упрекать, что у него не так струны поставлены, к примеру (Барни Кессел) А зачем ? Зачем все эти замечания ? Чтобы индивидуальность раскрылась, никакие подсказки не нужны, вы только испортите самобытное мастерство. Сначала научитесь сами играть, как он. Это касается и прочих сфер деятельности, разумеется.
