As you may have noticed in my music feature this week, I’ve become obsessed with the yacht that Dick Dale has for sale on his website.

I’ve also recently been quite enthused by Dale’s legendary surf guitar stylings, which I hadn’t heard for about a decade until this month when I reacquainted myself with his catalog of insanely skillful guitar tunes. And did you know that Hendrix was influenced by Dick Dale? You didn’t know that, did ya?

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Dale is at the Domino Room tonight at 8pm and there are still tickets available at the door. It’s all ages, so if you’re a young guitar slasher, try to make it out this show — you’ll probably learn something.

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  1. Dick, as usual, is great with the crowd. Was a demonstration of Dick’s unique and influential style. Yes, he really does play a right handed guitar flipped over to his left … and not restrung.

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