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RE: ..........moody twangy surf sound........
The surf sound was born pretty much right along with the 1960s. Link Wray and Duane Eddy are both credited with helping presage the genre as well, but the crazed, Middle-Eastern-sounding staccato picking that came to define the surf guitar sound originated with the undisputed king of surf guitar, D!ck Dale.
“I didn’t realize that I was creating a sound,” Dale says of inventing the style. “I played the way I felt. I called it surf music at the time because that’s the feeling I had when a wave came crashing down on me.”
Dale, himself a bizarre random element who arguably fell into pop by accident, was left-handed and played his ’57 Stratocaster “The Beast” upside-down—full-on upside-down, without stringing it opposite to accommodate his left-handed playing. He used heavy strings (.016s!) and heavy picks, and ripped his musical waves through a Fender Dual Showman amplifier and outboard Fender Reverb unit, through 15-inch speakers. His mirrored lefty style and equipment choice may have inspired fellow southpaw Jimi Hendrix, who later ripped popular music a new wormhole using a similar guitar/amp combo.
The surf sound was born pretty much right along with the 1960s. Link Wray and Duane Eddy are both credited with helping presage the genre as well, but the crazed, Middle-Eastern-sounding staccato picking that came to define the surf guitar sound originated with the undisputed king of surf guitar, D!ck Dale.
“I didn’t realize that I was creating a sound,” Dale says of inventing the style. “I played the way I felt. I called it surf music at the time because that’s the feeling I had when a wave came crashing down on me.”
Dale, himself a bizarre random element who arguably fell into pop by accident, was left-handed and played his ’57 Stratocaster “The Beast” upside-down—full-on upside-down, without stringing it opposite to accommodate his left-handed playing. He used heavy strings (.016s!) and heavy picks, and ripped his musical waves through a Fender Dual Showman amplifier and outboard Fender Reverb unit, through 15-inch speakers. His mirrored lefty style and equipment choice may have inspired fellow southpaw Jimi Hendrix, who later ripped popular music a new wormhole using a similar guitar/amp combo.
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"You Can Get It If You Really Want" is a famous rocksteady song written and performed by Jamaican reggae singer songwriter Jimmy Cliff. A version was recorded by Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker, becoming a hit in its own right as a single released in a number of markets, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. It was classified as number 27 on the 1970 Year-end Chart in the UK.
"You Can Get It If You Really Want" is a famous rocksteady song written and performed by Jamaican reggae singer songwriter Jimmy Cliff. A version was recorded by Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker, becoming a hit in its own right as a single released in a number of markets, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. It was classified as number 27 on the 1970 Year-end Chart in the UK.
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