Dick Dale Interview (6/18/14)

On June 3, 2004 I turned 36 years old.  In my shallow thinking and ego based vanity, I bemoaned that I was now officially closer to 40 than 30.  I had just come back from a firecall with Station 69 in Lavallette, NJ and was whining to one of my fellow firefigters about my existential aging crisis.  He looked up from his beer can and basically told me to get myself to the Surf Club in Ortley Beach and watch a 67 year old man raise the roof and tear up the place on his lefty guitar.  He may have also said something to the effect of "stop being a little bitch", but I digress.  I heeded his advice and had my ass and my self pity handed to me as I watch this whirling dervish of surf culture show me a level of talent and fierce stamina no mere mortal should possess. He played for hours and then took time to meet everyone there.  He really talked to people and then around 2 AM he loaded up the van and with backing musicians less than half his age, he drove into NYC for the next night's gig at BB King's club like a rock & roll Dad with the kids sleeping in the back.  It was inspiring to say the least.

A few years later I snuck my little brother Brian in to see Dick at Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park.  We bonded as brothers that night fuled by the mystical musical alchemy Dick summoned to the stage that night.

In 2014 my band the New Age Blues Experience got to open for Dick at Rossport Farms.  It was an amazing experience.

This archival podcast release illustrates an intense and broad conversation with the late great, legendary Dick Dale.  The interview covers a vast expanse of Mr. Dale's thoughts, beliefs and feelings about a great many things.  He expresses, heartfelt, candid reflections on his friendships and experiences with other artists and notable figures including Elvis Presley, Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Beach Boys, John Peel, Chris Isaak, the Ventures, Les Paul, Leo Fender, and Buddy Miles among others.

Other topics includes holistic health, the ancient cultural origins of "Miserlou", his deeply ingrained personal ethics and beliefs, his beloved wife Lana, and so much more.

There are an abundance of hard earned wisdom and life lessons lovingly shared here from a genuine American musical icon.  Rest in peace Sir, it was an honor to talk to you and open for you. - Colie Brice 4/18/25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Coley Bryce for w SHD ninety one point
seven FM and Eastport, Maine. What you're about to listen
to is the first part of an interview I did
with legendary guitarist Dick Dale, who will be performing August
ninth at Rossport Farms Guitars by the Sea. It's going
to be an incredible day of music and I'm really

(00:21):
looking forward to being a part of that. In progress,
recorded June eighteenth, twenty fourteen, with assistance from my good
friend Rob Schuman.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
As a middle aged guy who also likes to beat
up a strat a little bit, I find it really
inspiring and I wonder if you'd share with our listeners
a little bit about some of your life philosophy that
keeps you hanging tough like that.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, just get me a new body and I'll be happy. Yeah,
that's kind of life. My wife and I believe in.
You know, your body is exemple and we don't put
anything we are sure that says your body. Followers of
minds that don't be so weak on the mind. Because

(01:04):
with me, I've been in the martial arts service since
I was a teenager, so they taught us your body
is your temple, and don't you know, don't perfectly it.
Don't don't put things in it that's going too if
you want to kill you, that's it bad for you,
you know. So we will always thought that we've never
heard the alcohol in our body. We don't small.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, you certainly outlived a lot of your peers in
contemporary So yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
We don't get ridden me. We don't all that stuff.
We just don't put in our body.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
That gives us the strength to keep on going, you know.
And it's thirty seven. People say, and yet I've been
dealing with cancer for the last thirteen years and I've
beat us on top of that renal failure. The doctors say, oh,
you can't get on stage. A radiation is the holes
in me and that came home and all this other stuff.

(01:59):
But I get anti twenty years ago. A lot of
was a nurse. She was paid by a will or
to this. So she's my angel from heaven that came
and saved me three times when the doctor's messed up.
So the whole thing in the Nut Show is is
that we continue because there are other people out there

(02:19):
that are going through the same thing, and they see
me on stage, they say, and we do it, and
it's own with your mind. She has msked my wife
herself tumor diroidin her throat goes to pain like crazy.
But we don't believe in taking pain pills or anything
like that because doctors can't tell you that retards healing

(02:40):
fifty percent, right, So we keep our bodies moving and
on mine moving. By not thinking about yourself, you help
other people. So you're always doing something. So definitely, do
you know one thing? I when the kids asked me,
how do you do it on stage? You know, and
how do you play everything? I say, shit down, aga suns,

(03:03):
let me cleanse your soul. You know. It's a psychological
thing that you go through. And that's the reason why
we don't when I don't like I don't like the
way people performers that their body and what they do
to themselves and then they die at an early age.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
But you know he has an interaction with Keith Moon
at one point, didn't.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
You So that interaction with somebody everybody and Jimmy Andris
all everybody. I thought, well, that's how Jimmy was playing
base for Little Richard and the bar in Pasadena to
thirty people.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh yeah, but he was.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
He was a very nice, audient, humble person. When when
I get to meet him and he would come to
me and say, how do you do this? How did
you do that? I would show them all the different
slides and stuff like that. In fact, what's the name
used to open for me in different concepts at times
just drama thirty miles, that's who it was, party would

(04:00):
say to the audience. Jimmy Joy used to say, he,
I don't know if I can be censored on this.
They Jimmy used to say, I got my best shift
from Vic Beryl and stuff like that. License is that
he changed because his mind became once again, your body
folloished your line. He became weak with people. You know
a lot of kids when they're playing they first stopped

(04:23):
playing all of a sudden, they get a chance to
be in a band. And then if they and they
play really well, if they're playing bands that's in the
band that's making news and being popular, oh man, they
just actually need to play for them. And so they
stopped playing for him, and the damn band starts stilling
Druggs all the time when they're on the road, and

(04:44):
if the kids has never done dugs before or anything
like that. He surrounded with it and he feels that
he's going to do it. Otherwise still firing him like
he's not part of the game. And I tell people,
walk your own path and the right people will follow you.
And just straight would my mom do this or would
my dad do this? Or would God do this? Times

(05:05):
you have parents that are not straight and normal.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Good do you seem like you've been able to maintain
a very fierce independence despite being in the middle of
so many mainstream pop culture things. You seem like you've
been steadfast and sticking to what you do and the
way you do it on your own terms.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yes, and that came something in the martial arts and
trained my masters to all of the world as if
they taught me that, and like that my mother they
were very strict. They didn't smoke, they didn't drink, they
didn't do any of those things, and God bless them.
And that's what I give freedoms to is the way

(05:43):
my parents were strong to me. But even though that happened,
if your mind becomes is weak, then your body publish
your mind. You will because like I said, you want
to play music, you want to do this. So and
they said, well, if you want to work for me, well,
it's not only in music, it's in everything else, of
building houses, doing any in business. You know the people

(06:07):
who are powerful if they have bad habits, and then
they you go to work for them. I mean when
I first signed with Capitol Records, I walked into the
room and the head man was sitting there. First thing,
I asked you if I wanted to smoke a joint.
He had the best stuff that there was, right, and
I said, and I said, no, I don't put that

(06:27):
crap in my body. So but most people, I would
say ninety nine percent of them would do it because
they want that contract. And with me, my love of
life was surfing. I go surfing from stuff to some down.
I was training raising animals from all over the world,
deserve them from being killed by poachers. And that's what

(06:48):
my wife and I are every advocates of that, and
oh gosh, we we've got over two hundred save these animals.
So you know it's it's is right. You know, wrong
is wrong. There is no great matter in my life
and it's always been that way. One don't want to
do is stop three and it's a shame what's going

(07:11):
on with people in sake power. And if a band
is on the cover of a famous magazine and then
they've got their power, and then all of a sudden
they can do good, you know, all they can. They
can infect somebody's praying with the wrong way of life,
and we just don't do that. I don't believe in that,
and neither does my wife.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
You can do some leak.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
We either set an example. We set an example. It's
like Johnny Applesey going across the country and helping others,
you know, that really need it. And you know what
I put thought about it is, let me tell you
the ones who really really should have it With a
young child. There's two things on this planet that don't

(07:56):
have evil, that don't have insecurity, that don't have all
the negative things in their lives, and that is a
baby animal and a baby child. And what we do
to them. If you kick a dog, he is going
to run from you. In the same way if you
yeln scheam a little baby, you're going to steal the
hell and you're going to make it totally inferior within

(08:17):
his own brain. Being afraid of everything you've got to
give love to these people. That's why the monk doesn't speak.
He lives with mother nature, with the animals and what's
growing around him. And they smile because sometimes someone says
something and the way we perceive it is not the
way it's perceived. And then to say, you're a nasal

(08:38):
once told me, because I've been with months and I
have my dungu yell times by over a doesn't of
the month. As they say to experiences, to know, to
know is to understand. To understand is to tolerate, and
to tolerate is to have piece that stood eye. Took
me eighteen years to understand that and another eighteen years
to apply it. But one of the best date was

(08:59):
that was said to me by a master. Words. Thoughts
become words, Be careful. Those words could mean two different things.
See the good of red to someone else. Thoughts become words,
words become actions, actions become habits. Habits become your character,

(09:20):
as your character becomes your destiny. And that's why among
this holes and bowels. When he's given a gift from
another one, and when he us makes the gifts for them,
they smile back and vow, and they don't use their
energy and their body to speak. They do it by actions.
So my life has been followed by that type of thinking.

(09:43):
And that's my wife is the same way. The way
we feel in the martial arts. We always thought and
that's you know. And so my music is like a
cover of a book. If you see the cover of
a book and you like it, you buy a book.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
And then what.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Happens is then if you read a book, all of
a sudden, the person buddies go away. If it's good,
you read it completely through right, And that's what we
tried to do with people by by music. They feel
every style person. Why should I do what I'm in Spain?
They put me on the cover of the heavy metal magazines.
Why because I'm the first guy that ever created with

(10:21):
real was like a second dad to me kind of right,
our first out of transformers that created power. Now here's the.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
Youngster you read about recently in Life magazine. There's only
a fipp and okay there dick okay here from Boston
and Quincy, mass and now the coast dick Dale strepping
ont of swinging. So let's have a fine hand. Then
I looked at the heavy they were moving in fast

(10:53):
and what let him make it because they just last un.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, it's Dene. Is the only life of me became serpent. Yeah,
the serpent. I know my boy's gonna help me. Amoll
roll back from me and that's all a serpent.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, sur.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
It is in Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Is the only life of me? Come surpense, not attain.

(12:58):
I don't do.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
That's a very They're very nice.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Glad you want to say, and I was very exciting
and they dropped from the Pacific Coach just wonderful, Thank you.
Let's have a nice time for the chan.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
So, in case you're wondering, that was, in fact Ed Sullivan,
the legendary host and a guy who brought so many
great acts to the American publican and really the world's
attention to Beatles Elvis and Dick Dale, who will be
performing August night here in Eastport at Rossport Farms Guitars

(14:04):
by the Sea. I'm very fortunate to be opening that
show along with the Sean Mencher Band, Hawk Call White
and Friends, Three Ice Picks, our own Steve Irwin and
Pete with him and the Cosmic Zombies. It's going to
be an amazing day. And in the next couple weeks.
I'm going to be giving additional parts of this interview

(14:26):
to wshd's pre eminent radio personality, Bob de Witt up
on the Hill. This is Coly Bryce for w SHD
ninety one point seven FM. Thank you for listening. This
is Coly Bryce and you're listening to w SHD in Eastport, Maine.
This is part three of my interview with legendary guitarist

(14:48):
Dick Dale. In this segment of the interview, Dick talks
about some stuff he taught Jimi Hendrix how to play,
an incredible relationship he has with his loving wife Long
and his battles with cancer and healthcare. It's very interesting insights.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, what I was talking about Jimmy, the story of
Jimmy hens It is that starting off as a young
kid like he was, and he heard the sound that
I was doing, and that sound came from me trying
to replicate Jane Cooper's drums. And at the same time
I had over thirty different species of animals. I had lions, tigers, leopards, jags, hawks, eagles, folkens,

(15:32):
everything you could think of on my property. And then
when had happened and I raised them and was there
from the babies and everything else, so that they could
live their whole lives and a freedom of not being
contained in a small cage. So where like I would
come home, a Mountain lion would go wow like that,
or my African lion would go like that because they

(15:58):
knew it was time to be fed. So here goes sticky,
you know, And I go in there. And I had
cages that were like fifty feet long, twenty five feet across,
just just for a couple of lions, right, and that's
where it was. They were in my had oble home
fifty feet long that my lion would be inside with
me during the hot days and stuff like that, and

(16:19):
then we just laid out and you know, watch TV together.
You know, I seed it, I hand't feed it. But
I don't, you know, want people to do things like that,
because they'll get killed because they don't realize that the
lion has seventeen hundred clowns per square inch, and their
jar when they close it, they go right through steel tens.
And they don't realize that when the lion is playing
like a cat, when you rub your cat's belly, she

(16:41):
grabs you with her claws and bites on you, right,
because she's playing with you. Well, that's what the lion's
going to do, right, and he's are going to go
right through you. And I've had that happen. So you've
got to you've got to know, you know what you're doing.
And there's no books on how to race these wild animals.
So but that's what I did. And I had a
baby elephant. I end up everything and when the elephant

(17:06):
would stream, it was like a turndecto stream. So I
would imitate these sounds on my guitar and I still do.
And that's what Jimmy hurt, right, And how do you
do that? How do you do that? And then when
I came and started surfing in California in nineteen fifty four,
then when i'd be in a way, the rumble would

(17:29):
they would pick me up in the tube and spit
me out, and so I would mimic that. But every time,
mainly in my brain, I'm listening to my animals streaming
to me, saying calling me, and so that was coming
out of my guitar. And that's when I showed Hendricks
when I got Jimmy. Now, once you learn things like that,

(17:50):
you know his career of playing. He just got mixed up,
just like Keith moved right. And you know, Keith came
to me and he said, I was running down. Man.
I eat thousand dollars invested in it in the and
uh and I got John Lennon and Ringo on it.
And he goes, I gotta have big deal.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Man.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
If I don't have big deal, I'm going to scrap
the whole thing. Man, you're the father, You're the father.
And then and I said, he says, comes and heat
the fact. I'm doing a concert. And he gets up
on stage with his bodyguards and Keith Losson and and
that was my microphone. And he goes, I'll keep one
of the who and I who? He says who? I

(18:31):
goes who? It was like, who's on first?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, you know, and my little bit.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
And because I never went to parties, uh with these
type of people, I didn't know who anybody was. I
threw so many people out of my dressing room that
were movie stars right and were players. And they said,
you were just threw out of your dressing room because
he was smoking. I go get that ship out of
my room. So are drinking. So what happened was he

(18:58):
wanted me to go to his party and afterwards, and
I said, nah, I said, you want me to do
the recording, I'll do the recording. Well, I went and
did the recording and he collapsed in the middle of
the recording. They threw out of it. And then later
on they called me up and while I was in
the tow hole, perform me reno and they told me
he died, you know later on weeks later.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
You know stuff like that. These people they got so
hooked up because they were good at the beginning, but
they're their mental their mental security for so deep that
they felt that they had to do what these other
people do who are so screwed up in their lives.

(19:40):
Otherwise they wouldn't let them play with them, right, And
why I tell people, walk your own path and then
if your pass is proper, you'll be proper and hopefully
people that like what you do will follow you. And
when people want to buy me a drink, and lot
of people will take that drink because they don't want

(20:02):
to offend the person saying, let me blow you a drink.
I don't care about that, but I say, is all right,
give me some pineapples. Juice and ice cubes, and they'll go,
what the one that Jack daniels I says, No, I
don't put that crap in my body, right, So that's that.
So I come straight out and tell them right to
their faces. Someone smoke in front of me, I'm taking
out of their mouth, or get out or get out

(20:25):
of here. And that's the way it is. So you know,
this is what makes people die. They become weak because
they're afraid to say no, I'll play my instrument for
you in your bands, but don't expect me do what
you do. That's killing your body.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Right.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
They don't have the holies. What are you gonna call
it to stand up to them and say I don't
do that. And I do, and my wife does. And
that's why we don't go to parties. That's why we
don't do any of those things.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, you even hung out with Elvis a little bit,
didn't you.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's right. That's the l used to take me to
steam it up and down Hollywood Bullboard. And that's a
big cat because we were both into the martial arts.
Was the Ed Parker trained us.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Right, and he had a lot of yes men around him.
It must have been a lot different for him. Hanging
out with Dick Dell.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well, you know what he had as the jukebox in
his house. He had King of the Guitar out it.
I love that. And l was the guy that always
he was very insecure and because he just wanted the
world to like him, he wanted people to like him,

(21:36):
he would give he'd give these lavish gifts to people.
And because he just he didn't really know how like
a like a month lose. He didn't know how silence
dis respect. I used to tell I tell these children
when they come to me, I say, when you're in
a group, don't speak, just listen and smile, not your head,

(21:58):
and don't give opinion. That way they will fear you.
And the reason why they fear you is because they
don't know how much you know. Once you open your mouth,
they will know how much you don't know, and they'll
be on you like a used car salesman. So that's
the whole thing. Learned by listening, smiling, and people will

(22:20):
respect you, and that's what it's all about. And do
things for others. And if they do wrong things from
your gifts and deeds, then they had a chance to
get a friendship for a lifetime. But when they destroy that,
it's gone forever. So that's the decision that they made.

(22:42):
They could have had you as a friend forever because
they grewed you over they lost you. If you're smart enough,
you'll deal with them again.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Right.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
And a lot of times you have to know your
enemies because many times you have to deal with them
in business us. When I say enemies, I mean people
who take from others and don't walk that clean path.
But you want to deal with them, So just be

(23:12):
quiet and deal with them, and make sure you have
a very powerful, strong attorney to put in writing what
will protect you, right, And that's what it's all about.
So you don't have to sit there and go to
bed with them to get a job. You just speak
with them truthfully, look them in the eye and say
I'll do this for this. And you have the power

(23:36):
to remember I tell kids, remember you have the power
to say no, and you have the power to say yes.
And guess what, too many people who say yes, they
become destroyed because of that weakness instead of having the
power to be strong and say no. And that's the

(23:57):
way I have lived my life and lone I have
lived her life and you know, and kids with the
drugs Lana has has so many windows in their life
like I do. She worked with children over one hundred
and so many people, little kids, kids that were on
drugs and she could only save one of them, her
bringers out they would all they all learn to lie

(24:20):
so perfectly. And if you don't believe what I'm talking about,
watch the program Cops.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
And their father was the cops, I mean their stepfather,
her real father was killed with them on the railroad tracks.
She is her grandmother great grandmother's whole blood of Cheroch
and also raised her. Her mother had ms also, Lana
was taking care of her mother. And Lana also worked
in the hospital and think Peter Strake, Florida as a nurse.

(24:49):
She took care of and saved orson Welles. Wow. And
he wanted to take her into Hollywood to make her
of the work for him and make her a store
and everything. No, she said, this year is the thing.
They want to make a movie out of them. When
she was two years old taking care of her mom,
her mom was given an album and the album manufacture

(25:10):
of Me and My Tiger on the cover. It's called
the Tigers Loose. Her brother, her mom's brother, gave it
to her. Lana was taking care of people all the time,
doing things, wanting to help and safe people. She was
going to be a nun. And she was given the
album and she looked at it and she loved animal
so much. She had herons, all these different birds that

(25:30):
would come into her backyard and she'd take care of them.
And she looked at my tiger's eyes, because we were
both looking at the people who's holding the album her eyes,
and she says, Oh, look at the tiger's eyes. It's
so beautiful, lovey, And then she looked at my eyes.
And she was born with a gift. And people who
listen to this story, they know what you call a

(25:53):
medium is. And if you've ever heard of a medium,
have you ever heard of a medium.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Like a Claravoy enters?

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yes, yes, yes, Lana was born a sensitive. She is
ten times more powerful than a medium. I never believed
in any of that stuff ever unless they came down
and shook my hands. But I won't even get into
it because they'll put me in the looney farm. But

(26:21):
I will say this, do people listening, Your soul does
not die when you die, because I have found it
out with my parents and so Lenna she looked at
the album and she said, Mommy, look at his eyes.
She didn't know who Dick dyl was at two, and
she said, one day I'm going to be with him

(26:42):
the rest of my life at two. At two, at
three years old, she started writing to people like Joan
Fontaine and Doris Date, who writes to her as we
speak now. Just got a letter last week from Dora.
She calls her Dodo in Atlanta has got she did

(27:03):
the stuff that she has done, you wouldn't believe it.
And she thought over one hundred plays. She's saying with
the the Ander sisters. Dorist Day just loved her with
the way she could sing, and she lived this thing
like Doris Day. She led to tap dance. She was
trained by the woman who trained the rackets and stuff

(27:24):
like that. She does on and on and she loves
all the same things that I do. But she has
a special gift and she won't talk about it at all,
but people come to her and they won't believe what happens.
So she told her mother that as she went onto
her life, she never contacted me because I had been married.

(27:44):
It was a horrific marriage, and then she was expected
that she always told people fitting myself for Dick Dale,
Orson Wells and Johnny Cash used to put on his
lap and they had her sing stage with him. In fact,
Johnny Cash and his wife wanted to adopt her because
the mother couldn't take, you know, take care of her

(28:07):
good because she had MS. Here's a tremendous history. And
what happened was she would tell Johnny I'm saving myself
as Bigtail. And she had never contacted me, but she
would pray to her angel Bretadt, and her angels old
her I'm dying. When I was dying, and that was
about fourteen years ago. I had and I had to

(28:31):
When I was twenty, I had cancer, rectro cancer. I
had three months to live and I beat that and
then and now it came back. I've had it my
body for years. And this is a different story. What
you eat is causes your cancer to rejuvenate itself, because
we all have cancer in our body, but it minds
its own business until we eat things like sugar and

(28:54):
that becomes like fertilizer, right, and so anyway, that's a
whole lother story. But people can look up cancer. Cancer
cannot live on oxygen and liquid oxygen and it kills it.
So look at look it up in the computer for
cancer and oxygen. Look up hydrogen peroxide food grade thirty

(29:18):
five percent the Egyptians have been using for one hundred
years kills. It kills the cancer cells and many other
different antennedees in your body. So what we do is
we research all of this from all over the world,
and doctors know about it, but they're not allowed to
talk about it. But anyway, with Lana, all of a sudden,
her angel told her that I was dying, and she

(29:39):
told her mother, and her mother said contact him. So
she contacted me to the email and I was in Europe.
Maintained that she would never never believe. They had to
carry me out of the car, carry me on stage,
put me in a chair while I played the guitar.
The pain was beyond belief. Yeah, late, And so anyway,

(30:02):
we ended up talking on an email, and then we
ended up talking on the phone and for nineteen months
she was talking to me ten hours a day to
keep me going well. I was in New York. One
dad put me to bed because she was the nurse
then and then when I got home and then your
Agel said he is dying. So she said, I can't

(30:24):
let you die. I loved you since I was two.
And she was told to go in and take a
dollar and go to the scratch off, which she's never
done in her life. She went to the scratch off
and won over five hundred dollars the first time in
her life, and that was the money she used. She

(30:45):
said to me, I can't let you die. And she
got on a plane and came to me, and then
we've been together ever since.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Then.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
She saved my life. I was on a journey for
twelve hours when I collapsed in a parking lot and
they had five doctors trying to figure out why, looking
at the screen, and Lana was with me, and she
walked in and said, may I see your screen? And
they were reluctant, but she said. She was a nurse
and worked at the largest vacants hospital in the United

(31:14):
States in Florida, Saint Petersburg, where she was born and
her daddy was stepdad was a police officer. And she
looked at the screen and said, gentlemen, he has three
fish childrens one, two, three. You see them, and they said,
oh my god, we're going to lose them. We're going
to lose him. Get the helicopter to get him at
the power springs. She says, says, oh, I'm going to

(31:36):
take them. She took me. And I'm still here because
of all of this, and I can go on. I
wish I won't all the different things that she has
done to save my life each time mistakes were made.
She even went up to a doctor and said, you
realize the pills that you're giving him fors diabetes caused
this tank, they added cancer and they said, well, at

(31:56):
his age, we're not worried about that. We just want
to give him a great big she said, So we
start taking those pools. So anyway, this is what she
has been in my life. And they want to make
a movie out of you. Yet about the four different
companies want to make a movie out of our particular
love story. And yet a lot of deals with her

(32:17):
pain with MS and five of morosia and a Hansil
tumor of diroid. So these are our death sentences. But
yet she works previously twenty four hours a day. She
makes me say, she does right down, I don't want
you to book no more. I'm going to book all
the things because the reason why to wear performing is
I have to raise three thousand dollars every single well

(32:40):
just to pay for the attachment that I have on
my stomach I I have to wear of. And the
insurant because of the government, will allow the insurances to
pay for it completely. And these poor people, because it's
called the stomach, You're intestine comes out of your stomach
and then you have an attachment, and that's how you
people matter is taking care of. And yet my kidneys

(33:02):
has stop and on the next step going into the machine,
which I am not going to do. And we deal
with it the way we deal with it. And I'm
still here and we've been dealing it for over thirteen years.
And so now these poor people that are only getting
money from their Social security whatever is not, they're laying
in bed with infections because they cannot change their attachments

(33:27):
every day like they're supposed to when the hospital say
do it once a week. It's because they can't afford
to them. So God bless them all. That's what we're doing.
She gets two thousand email a week from these people
with these deadly diseases and they cannot they cannot attend
to them promptly because the insurance companies won't pay for it.
So and I have, I got blue costs and I

(33:48):
got to back up. I got all that, but still
they don't pay the complete of the needles that I
have to take for insulin and also my attachment. So
while we're on tour, we're doing too, not only helping
people with this disease. They come to me. When I signed,
I signed for five and a half hours. I before,
when I did the concert of people Las Vegas, the

(34:10):
thirty thousand people I was signing at the Mercy Able
five and a half hours. We just played with kid
rock and floor it up the thirty thousand people well
and just and it went on like that. And so
what happens is and when I go to Europe, we
played a four hundred and ninety thousand people. It's like
Woodstock in Berlin. And so but yet we play to

(34:34):
the clubs because the clubs are local, and their families
come and there are places where the houses on them
bring their kids and it's like a family. And I
like that because I'm closer to them because they can
come right to the stage and then I can see
them when it went through performing. Guys, we'll sit there
and sign and talk more stories about our diseases. And

(34:56):
I used them to swear at it, to laugh at it.
Don't in a bed and say oh whoe with me.
You know you're going to die anyway. So the point
lies is you're better make the best of what you're
doing before you die. Right, So so you know, if
I if everything stops with me, put me in a
wheelchair to the end of the pier so I can

(35:17):
wash the sunset. Just there's just the way it is.
When I die. It's not going to be in some
rock and chair. It was a big beer cut. It's
going to be in one big explosion and body parts
on stage and one cut. And one could have and
one could have said, the way he plays, he's going
to take half the audience with.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Him, well, hopefully August night.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
So so you know that's the whole thing. You know,
you're going to have this person of attitude no matter,
no matter what you know, if something is wrong with you,
there is always somebody else that has a lot more
wrong with them.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
I tell him, remember that there's always a more positive perspective.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
That's right. I mean I had the blues because I
had no shoes until upon the streets I met a
man who had no seat. Think about that.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I will Nick, thank you so much for your time.
Our listeners are going to be so grateful to hear this.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
And this is Coley Bryce for w SHD, and I'm
bringing you the final portion the fourth part of my
interview with legendary guitarist Dick Dale, who will be performing
August ninth, twenty fourteen at Rossport Farms Guitars by the Sea.
The lineup also includes myself with my band, the New
Age Blues Experience, the Shawn Menscher Band, Hawke Call White

(36:39):
and Friends, the Ice Picks, Steven Irwin, our own Steven
Irwin right here in Esport, and Pete with him and
the Cosmic Zombies.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Here it is.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
The East Coast has always been my home. I was
born in Boston, Massachusetts, and I was raised there till
my eleventh grade. And then we will my dad. The
ODA job was how would he is? And that's when
we drove to California in nineteen fifty four, So by
whole raising, taking swamp blueberries from my grandma to make

(37:11):
blueberry turnovers. I mean, you know, flowing with my grandpa
with a single blade, with a single furrow to plant
our food. I used to eat my potatoes right out
of the ground. Ra I love the tomatoes, and I
canna thot the green turn typtoses and skin that tampon me.
And onead that lived over plato plants. I'm like, but wait,

(37:34):
we planted a off food. My granddaddy taught me. He
came from Poland and they were they called him white
Russian and they were a gypsies.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
And he they taught me, is that what you got
to scale for miserlu is that is that what you
got that.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Visible came from my father's side of the family. In fact,
Lana and I were flowing uh to Washington, d c.
Just recently by the United States Ambassador of Lebanon, and
they had over two thousand dignitaries, ambassadors from Pakistan, from Morocco,

(38:13):
from all over the world and to honor me, to
give me a special beautiful sculpture for what I have done.
And I mean these are dignitaries from all over the world,
and for the White House, the whole complete works, and
my father's mother and father and that would be my
grandma and grandpa on my father's side came from Dlut Lebanon.

(38:37):
So my birth name is an American is Richard Monsour.
It is an aristocratic name m o n s o
u r. And they are in Arabic. It would be
what I sh'd Monsour, and that's my father's side. So
Misulou is the Greek say, it's the Greek songs, an

(39:00):
Arabic song because miss Alu means the Egyptian and in
an Arabic Wayne Wayne Hamdi playing where are you My Sweethearts?
It's a love song and it's it played on an
ood and my uncle used to play the oud and
every weekend we would go visit my father's side of
the family and it'd be an Arabic drums you put

(39:24):
in your left and you play. It's called the buckie.
And the rhythm they would use is and the billy
dances would come out, the Egyptian dances dance. Well, they
played on the ood, and they played on the ood,

(39:44):
and that's how I learned to play Miss Lou. And
it's played slowly. It's down to down, the down, down,
don't doo zone, the doom don do like that, and
they would have the symbols to get a little finger
finger type symbols and and that was the rhythm to

(40:08):
because that's the room that I would I learned to play.
And then one kid, when I was playing Hank Williams
songs and I love the Country, which my love of
my heart and with me and Mala, I want to
record together, singing some songs together.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
And uh.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
When I started playing the guitar out there in Belbo, California,
at the rendezvous, a young kid came up to me
and said, wow, I like the way you play your
music and everything. Can you play something on one string?
And I goes, oh, because I'm not really a guitar player.
I just take a guitar and make it scream with
pain or happiness, and I'll make it romantic. And because

(40:51):
I love Latino music and I play that when I
play my trumpet, I played some money outchy stuff and
I looked at the kid and I said, well, to
get rid of him, I said, I'm back to row
night and I'll I don't play something. So I went
home that night and then that's IM trying myself to sleep,
saying oh, they're gonna know, I don't know, I'll play
the guitar really go god. And it's because I was

(41:13):
just strumming, you know, strumming the chords, singing, Hey Williams Son,
to give it. IM giving it a rock beat, so
I said, and I started to play Miss lou and
and I goes, well, that's too slow. You know, that's
not going to be He's not going to like that.
And then a light came on and I said, I
do it like to the jin Trooper drumming. Go take
it to Kentucky ticket to get down. So I went, yeah,

(41:36):
I sloid down, so make it sound like my animals.
And I went, un get down to get like that.
And that's how t get like that. And that's how
I played it, you know. And uh, I mean there.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Wasn't really just surfy. He also kind of started that
whole exonica music kind of movement then too.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Well, that's that's how it all started. Like I told you,
I was mimicking Jeane Cooper's drums for the rhythm of
the style of picking, and I was playing my animal
streams on the guitar, and the streams all the ocean.
But at first started with my.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Animals and hething on some ancient Egyptian melodic patterns.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
And then then I have and I play. You know,
I play, I put myself in. When I play the trumpet,
I'll play like Louis Armstrong. I'll play like Harry Jay
and make the trumpet cry. When I played my sacks,
I sounded like Joe Houston. When I jump on the drums,
I play like Chin Coopa. When I play my harmonicer,
I do boogie woogie stuff. I use the same rhythms

(42:45):
and everything I do. And when I do Latino music,
Mexican music, you know, I wrote songs like Esperanza. Uh.
You know when I play songs like you can't say
that surf music. You know. I play every style of
music there is. I played Jerry Lewis on the piano.
I played classical views to come a piano and stuff

(43:06):
like that. I used to. I had a seventeen piece
rock band. One time. I had double drummers, the double
bass players. I had six ORNs, I had six girl singers.
Would I would take my horns out and play Harry
James The big band sounds wow. So I played every
style of music there is, but they called me King
of the surf guitar because I was surfing at the

(43:28):
same time. But you know, as if I only played
well like anyway, I only played esperanza of Villa Dasante,
they wouldn't call me King of the cerf Guitar. So
what it was doing was I was making sounds on
my guitar that remplicated all my lines and tigers and
my animals. And the rhythm came from Gene Cooper on

(43:51):
my ticking, the way I picked, and the mother nature
in the surf. The rumble of the roar of the
waves also came a part of it. You know, they
gave me the title, which is in the White House forever,
King of the serf Guitar, But we never say king
in the serve guitar when we're advertising. We always say

(44:14):
guitar legend because on the guitar legend, as they say,
because I created so many different things. I created the
pioneering of the music, the pioneering of the electronics of
the guitar, and the pioneering all guitars the startocaster and

(44:37):
Leo Friend used to say, when it can withstand the
barrage of punishment of Dick Dale, then it is set
for the human consumption, and that's what he used to
say all the time. So there's so many things. I
invented a lot with Leo Fender. Leo and I together
it was just like you know, through cooks and a pie,

(44:59):
actually three courts with Leo, Freddy Taveris myself and and
everything that Leo. I pioneered the first Fender Rhodes piano
at the Hollywood Bowl in concert. I pioneered the first
Contemporo Oregon, all these different things to a pioneered as
a wireless transmitter, and so all of these different things,

(45:20):
you know, meaning a lot of dam you know, this
stuff is in the mim Museum, it's the largest museum
in the United States and Phoenix, Arizona, and they've had
a tremendous display on you know, my Alpha transformers, my
guitars and so forth and everything like that. That's an
incredible place to go to. And right now, Telex has

(45:42):
just replaced my original Telex inspe that I use with
my guitar because I used to walk out on the
street and play and at a concert and they just
replaced it with a brand when it finally died. And
that's going to go into the museum. There's no other
mim M. I am musical instrument. Museums tell people to
look it up. Okay, look up and look up dig Dale.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
I guess in some ways people could compare you to
Les Paul in respect that you're a gifted player but
also gifted in creating and equipment for time.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Right right right, you just you are the first one
that said that. You're the first one that said it
like that. Less and I were a very good friend.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Don't tell me I'm the first person who said that,
Yes you are well who made.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
It that way? They either talk about my sounds or
they either talk about oh you know, but they never
meld them both together. Now they're they're stunning to it.
But you're the first one on interviewing that put them
both together. Yeah, and being here at an inventor, you're
a creator, the creator of all of the electronics and

(46:51):
uh stuff like that. For to another words, just split
like we split the atom. We went from a little
ted white output chance homes or a transformat taken one
hundred and eighty wots right, And the way that it's
wired makes a difference too. Trans Hollers can be transformers
will only favor highs, mids or lows. But what Leo

(47:14):
created for me was highs, mids and lows all in
one transformer. And when people don't dunk that transformer because
Triad made them, and then Triad very down, they lost everything,
all the PaperWorks, everything else like that. When they got
a hold of one of Leo's transformers, they said, oh,
he's winding it backwards in the middle. Why is he

(47:34):
doing that? They tried to count the windings, they tried
to duplicate it because there's no other transformer out there
that's like that, and the only ones that have them
are collectors and me. So uh, you know, if you
get one of those things, those transformers are going to
cost the thousands of dollars.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Well, I can't thank you enough to that. I share
a heck like playing my Sender shadow casts in my
Fender to them.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Well that's it, you know. The the reason why for
the tube is because their blossoms and the tubes create
gas and it gives you the fat sound something like that.
I was with TV for three days. Icy loved Leo,
and he tried to duplicate it with me with a transistence,

(48:19):
and we could only get up one hundred wats and
then it just flattened out. It just didn't work. It
didn't have the fat sounds. And the same way like
Les Paul and I, we played together, performed together, and
we had when we spoke with each other. We spent
hours talking about the history and how Leo Fender gave

(48:41):
him a boost to get in with the company that
he got into with gifts and stuff like that, and
he was such an incredible man. I was with him
just weeks before he died. It was amazing. He wanted
me to come back into New York and play with
him again. Because we performed for this big guitar They
brought guitar people from all over the world. They called

(49:02):
them guitar virtual osal masters, and he was one of them.
I was one of them, and we played together on
stage together.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
I did have the fortunate meeting him one time, and
he was somewhat similar to you in that he was
he was older, but still completely inactively engaged in life
itself and just still tweaking with things and still still
had so much passion for life and music in sound.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Yes, and another person that was like that who passed away,
and we were soulmates, and in fact, they as stated
to her complete biography of him with me, and that
was John Peel in England the BBC, and John Keel
was like Einstein. He had millions and millions of listeners.

(49:47):
He recorded every single person known, command from the Rolling Stars,
the Beatles, Jerry Hendricks and dioe. When I first had
gone over there and they said John Field's at your
companies to concert like Lou's John Diele. And then when
we got together, it was we interlocked so incredibly that

(50:09):
every time I went to Europe into England, I had
to be at the BBC and do some records for
him and CBS for him. And so the last time,
this time to his chest before he passed, I was
there and he wasn't in the studio, he was in
his office and uh, and we had to do about
four or five songs. So I did the typical guitar stuff,

(50:33):
and then what I did was I get on the
piano and I wrote a beautiful Italian mafioso song and uh,
and I started playing it on the piano, and then
they had the tapes going and they recorded it, and
then I went into a boogie wiggie on the piano
and then I went into a high key you know,
Jerry Lewis and you know, stuff like that. Yeah, But

(50:55):
we made two recordings. So John was playing the the
stories that I had played, and he played the shoe
and he goes, oh, we have another one here, what
is this And all of a sudden, here's the quiet
Yeah coming on and it was like tring or something
like that. And uh. He played it all the way

(51:18):
through our great bat the view as a concert behind Europe,
and then he was sitting wow, and then he plays
the next one kind of went to your heel, like
the old rock and roll. And when it was over
John's party a wards were, well, we know why we
love tick Dale. He does what he damn well places,

(51:41):
he does what he did well.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Please. You know. I was talking to someone about surf
music the other day and I was kind of drawing
a comparison. I was wonder where you thought of it,
Like the guy was talking about The Ventures and I
was talking about you, and it's like The Adventures they're
cute and sweet and very beatily and everything, but Dick
was more like the Rolling Stones. The Last Man Standing
was just a little grittier.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Yeah, that's that's what the critic said in the magazine
write up. Uh, it showed a picture of me walking
away on my guitar over my back, and he said,
he's the true gun slinger and he's the last of
the gun slingers. And but the thing is is that
the benures are just wonderful people. And Oki, I was.

(52:28):
I played with him inside the last time I played
with him. They had me do a thing. I guess then,
and Okie's the same way. He got bless somewhere. Prayers
aut him. He's going through lots of paint.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Tremendous constributions to serve music.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
And he uh, he got up the stage, he goes,
tick deals a maniac and he goes. And then Chris
Isaac said when he was interviewed Johnny Kust and he said,
you played with Dick Tail And he goes, what was
that like? And he goes, well, he says, I had
Dick come on from my finals show my final song.
I was going to concert the same night, and he
asked me if i'd come over and play his last

(53:05):
song before I did my concert, and so I did.
And then he said when he got through, he picked
up a piece of wood off the stage and that's
that was what was left of the stage. But he
was done so and but you know the adventures of that.
I remember them coming up to me and asking you

(53:25):
if I would promote their guitar when they first made
it the most right and I said, why I get
the best guitar known to men? It's offensive stow And
but they went on to Japan and played music for
Japan and gave them some of their songs and they
were like Elvis in Japan. And that's you know, that's
how what they did in their career was just amazing.

(53:47):
But they were good people, you know, good people and
the same as the Beach Boys. My dad used to
give him ten bucks to open for me. Yeah, and
they they used to play in a little the one
time we got on a raft and Fort Beach and
went down the bay where I lived and who was
playing on the bay And that's how Vegas started and
michaelve and they were very different. They loved my father

(54:10):
and I told them how to promote themselves. Did what
I told them to do, and they exploded. They did
they did what they were supposed to do. So you know,
I a lot of these people, Buddy Holly opened for me.
I mean Richie Vallis. I tootored Richie when when we
were on stage together. Then when he sang his first song, wow,

(54:30):
and he goes, what do I do, Dick?

Speaker 4 (54:32):
What do?

Speaker 2 (54:33):
What do I do?

Speaker 3 (54:33):
I get back out there and do it again. If
I showed them out there, he was too afraid to
go out there. Stevie Rayvan Uh, Stephen Ravan his first
records he ever learned from with Dick Deale records.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
You guys are nominated for a Grammy together, aren't you?

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Yeah? Yeah, and uh. And then Stevie wondered when we
would do a little filming. He goes, Dick, Dick, when
it's time, pushed me out, okay, pushed me out on
the stage. What is time for me to go? I go, Stevie,
you were I go, Stevie, you're really blind?

Speaker 2 (55:04):
He goes.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
He goes, well, I can see shadows, man, I can
see shadows. Just push me out there. And every time
he's anywhere, if he's at one of the conventions that
I'm at, I'll come up from behind and I say, hey,
you want me to push out there? And he goes,
ohigdal Man, you know, I all of these people, you know,
from almost on down. They invited me to their home

(55:25):
and and I as did and in person for solo.
She used to come out and see my allions and uh,
my animals, and everybody was so like Elle was so
wanting to be loved properly to the people, and he
wanted all these gaze things. He was a giver, you
know here, but he got caught up and like in

(55:47):
the music was so demanding for him because he was
always afraid, just like me. When I get on stage,
I say, okay, lord, you're pulling the strings. So if
I screw up the night, that's your fault, you know.
But I mean when you're under that kind of pressure,
so people would say, here, take a drink, you know,
that'll take the nerves off of you, you know, and

(56:08):
you'll get out there and do a good job. Well,
and here take a pill up tip till. I mean,
they tell you to do these things and it'll make
you not so afraid of what you're doing and everything
else like that, it will calm you down or whatever.
I never did that, but the ones that did that,
like yo, it just started getting worse and worse and worse.

(56:30):
Because your body it's like taking antibiotics. If you take
too many of them, all vitamins, if you take too
many of them constantly, then your body doesn't react to
it anymore. Right, So you know the things that they
would take, their body would not react anymore. So they
would take something stronger and stronger and stronger, and that's

(56:52):
what they got to hooked. So I'm saying, your body
follows your mind. Be strong, And if you're going to
be scared trapless, you know, I want to talk like
I talk from Boston. You know, I can say if
you want, if you're going to be scared shitless. So
that's the way we say it in Boston. I'm sorry, folks,
but that's the way it is.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Right.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
So I'm trying to make it sound trade crap less
or other house fully. But but the thing is is
that grab the bull by the horns. Fear the only
thing that if fear does why it's fear. Fear is
the lack of the unknown. And once you know it,

(57:31):
then you can deal with it. So here is the
greatest thing, because it drives you. If you've got enough,
if you get enough to home that you're talking the
way I'm camouflaging the word. So if you've got enough
strength in your mind that you can, you can face
the fear, look it right in the face and say, Okay,

(57:53):
we're going to deal with this pal, and that fear
will push you forward. Never allow fear to overtake you
and and completely destroy you to panic. Never allow fear
to make you panic. Use your fear to drive you forward,

(58:15):
because what what the hell can happen?

Speaker 2 (58:17):
He's going to die, so and die anyway.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Yeah, so face it and see how you come out,
and you'll find out because you never gave up. You're
going to find an incredible ending. And you can pat
yourself on the back. When I'm building something and I'm
making something, or allow us can you fix this soon
the honey? And or can you put this thing together?

(58:40):
And I'm looking at the directions and I'm going how
and hell am I going to ever understand what they're saying?
They never give the answer that you want.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
You can.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
You can invent defender stratocaster, but it's hell of the
time putting together one of these Zychea pieces.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Well, he brought me a commercial fan, yeah, out of steel,
and it's a stand up fan and that motor was
so heavy I could barely lift it. Yeah, and I'm
going I spent two and a half hours looking at
the instruction trying to figure out how it's going to
be put together. But because I didn't give up, now
it's in my hangar, blowing air like a bowl of

(59:18):
car over, you know. And I said, and I can't
believe I had. I got that. Just don't give up,
and everything is that. A fear is going to be
with you all the time, but use it as a
guiding force. Don't let it be panic. And that's basically
what it's all about, you know. I wanted to learn
how to build a house. I never went to college

(59:39):
to do that. And I went and got books, asked questions,
and I built my first house about myself. I did
it all. I drew the elevations, I drew through the
treadsum and nuts and the bolts. I had a draw
what the concrete looked like. I had a draw what
the inside of the chimney looked like. And I just
looked at pictures and followed it. And then I drew

(59:59):
my that I built my mom and Dance home one
hundred and fifty seven feet long, seven thousand square feet.
And when I built the first house when I was up,
Nanna Cane deducting in the air conditioning in one hundred
and ten degrees eat and I said, I will never
do this again. Yeah, but I built my mom and
dance home, so you know that. You know I'll end

(01:00:22):
it with this. I had a master. I told a
master one time. I said, mask, how can I be
so great that nobody can beat me anything? I've done
everything from archery to everything flying airplanes? And I said,
how can I be so great that nobody can beat me?
And he says, Grass, how you can, he said, but
you must give up everything in your life for that.

(01:00:44):
You must eat it, breathe it, and sleep it around
the clock and even in billions. I've been a pole
player all my life, and you must play twelve fifteen
hours a day, so he said to me. But let
me ask you a question. Would you rather the master
of one or not master of none? If you were
master of one, it'd be ughly dull of people gathering,

(01:01:06):
wouldn't you, Because like Einstein, he couldn't mix with people.
He couldn't talk to you about plumbing, or if you're
an electrician or if you're a painter or if you're
a photographer. He only knew how to split the atom.
So he said, wouldn't it be better if you were
master of none? And then you'd be able to talk
about everything. Learn something about everything, so that when you

(01:01:32):
read me at Jack of all trades, and whatever you
do in all those trades, do them to the best
of your ability, and you can talk to everyone who
has an occupation. And I learned one thing. I will
never never bend a nail and cover it with a
piece of molding around the table so nobody can see

(01:01:53):
the bed nail. Every time I stood at that table,
I don't know that I bent that nail. So I
will unbend the nail and take it out. And my
dad used to say, I hate the paper. By the hour,
I'll go broke on bending the nail, but I will
know that's less than perfection. I will not work by
a can that fell off the shells in a grocery

(01:02:14):
store on the floor and nobody picked it up. I
will not work by a piece of paper on the
floor in front of me as I'm walking. I will
pick it up. And I will never throw away a
candy wrapper outside the car, I will always put it
where it belongs in the trash or where it belongs.
So when you take that time, it talks about your character,

(01:02:38):
and that is one of the things that I was
talking about previously, your character following that, Yeah, that's what
it's all about. So my music is played to people
of all ages. If I see a country focal of
the gentlement, I'll play a country song. I'll do Johnny Cash.
If I see somebody that I would like Jason Street,

(01:03:00):
I take her for jumping and do some Basis Street blues.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
If if I see some guys with long hair and
they're like the rockers, or if he's or whatever you
want your calls, I'll hold deep purple smoke on water.
Don't don't don't. That's not surf. What it is. What
it is is it's the Dickdale sound, right, you'll know that.

(01:03:24):
And one guy always, one guy told me in my
last concert, like when I walk out on stage, I
don't get introduced. I introduced them with my guitar sound
while I'm in the dressing room and I and I
stopped playing on it and it makes the audience just
go nuts. And the guy says, when that guitar comes
blazing over your speakers, that's I knew that it's Stickdale.

(01:03:47):
There is no other guitar that sounds like Dick Dale.
And he says, it just blew me away, gave me purple.
So that's what I do. That's how I introduced myself.
I introduced myself by blasting into the audience with my
guitar and they don't see me, and then they see
me walk out on stage playing. So I've never had
anybody introduce me. And Colonel Parker used to tell me

(01:04:10):
about Elvis. He said, I never had an introduction to Elvis. First,
if they didn't know who they came to see, they
then paid too much money. That's the tiguler, colonel, and
he was a great guy. So I'm looking forward coming
back to where the place I was raised, the East Coast, and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
We're so happy to have you August ninth at Rossport
Farms Guitars by the Sea. This is Coley Bryce. You're
listening to w SHD ninety one point seven FM and Eastport, Maine,
and we've had the incredible honor and privilege of speaking
candidly today with guitar legend Dick Dale, Dick, thank you
so much.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Well, I thank you for reaching out, and I also
thank all the people out there that have listened to
what I do, but most of all that have felt
what I do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Plus you're all take care of Dick and what we
can't wait to see in August.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Listening to the funder we'll do, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Good day to you and our best Talana as well.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
I'll tell her, I will tell her you're gonna love
her when you see her. She's like a guardian angel.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Awesome. Thank you so much, sir. O w I no bye,