Dick Dale was already on the way to a full-scale comeback when Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction turned Dale's 1962 hit "Miserlou" into a major sensation. But there is much more to the King of the Surf Guitar than one hit, as this definitive anthology amply demonstrates.

The big picture on Dick Dale -- the inventor of surf music, the Godfather of Loud, precursor of heavy metal, the first high-energy power guitarist (all titles being proffered from the man himself to describe his contributions) -- gets told in a real fine way on this two-disc, 39-track anthology. Although single-disc best-ofs exist, this is the first one to cross-license from various labels. Dale started as a vocalist who just happened to be able to furnish his own guitar solos, and it's here that the compilation starts. But by track four on the first disc, "Let's Go Trippin'," the Dick Dale story begins in earnest. The sopping-wet surf sound hadn't been invented yet, but the staccato picking, heavy twang, and hard attack were already in place. The outboard Fender reverb tank that became part of Dale's signature found its first workout on "Miserlou" (although Dale claims otherwise), and what followed was the beginning of surf music, pure and simple.

The rest of the first disc carries you through his later Capitol recordings while the second starts with the second half of Dale's career in 1983 with live tracks from his The Tigers Loose album and steers you through duets with Stevie Ray Vaughan, tributes to Hendrix, and best of all, documenting his own resurrection in the '90s, totally viable and still his own man.

Tracklist:

CD 1
01 Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
02 Bye Bye Baby
03 She Acts Like a Woman Should
04 When Love Goes Wrong Nothing Goes Right (with Jane Russell)
05 Two Little Girls From Little Rock
06 Kiss (with Jane Russell)
07 A Fine Romance
08 When I Fell in Love
09 Do It Again
10 One Silver Dollar
11 The River of No Return
12 I'm Gonna File My Claim
13 Down In the Meadow
14 You'd Be Surprised
15 Lazy
16 Heat Wave
17 After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It
18 I Wanna Be Loved By You
19 Runnin' Wild
20 I'm Through With Love
21 Specialization
22 My Heart Belongs To Daddy

Disc: 2
1. Firing Up (Live Version)
2. King Of The Surf Guitar (Live Version)
3. Jessie Pearl (Live Version)
4. One Double One Oh! (Instrumental Version)
5. Pipeline
6. Nitro
7. Shredded Heat
8. Terra Dicktyl
9. Unknown Territory
10. Niterider 6
11. Bandito
12. Third Stone From The Sun
13. In-Liner (Surf Beat '97)

Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: FhG
MPEG-1 layer 3

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