Dick Dale
February 10, 1990
Bogarts
Long Beach, CA

A Tapegeek Recording/hitwitstuff 2 Upload!

Maxell XLII-S90 master cassette (?), Sony 909 Stereo Mic, Sony D6 Recorder->LUXMAN K-111 HX Pro Stereo Cassette Deck->Audacity (Levels adjusted, tracks created, no EQ).
flacs created with Switch, MD5 file created with xACT.

HITWITSTUFF2 SAYS:

Its a long weird path that brings these recordings to DIME. It starts in 1997 when on a work assignment in Los Angeles I started talking with a co-worker named Scott and it turns out that he’s into lots of the music stuff I’m into and he’s a taper! Its almost the final days of this project and Scott appears one morning with a Paper Grocery bag filled with first gen copies from master recordings of Replacements, Husker Du, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers, Robin Hitchcock…..I got dizzy. I had only three or four days to get them all copied and that could only be done while on my ten hour turnaround between work; thats the time I should be sleeping. I went crazy dubbing with my dubber and cassette to DAT with my other set up (instead of sleeping). I didn’t get em all, but I got all that was very important to me. Fifteen years later, I uploaded one of these “Scott Paper Bag” shows to Dime and told this story. Turns out Scott is on Dime as “Sporkpie” and identified himself to me. I also met his friend who is also on Dime. He goes by Tapegeek. Those first gen copies that were in the bag were mostly copies of Tapegeek (and his friend and fellow DIME’r Peewee’s) master recordings. Tapegeek coincidently is in the same profession as myself. Small world, huh? Well, guess what. These are his recordings off of his master cassettes that we are now going to enjoy and share so lets reward Tapegeek for handing over his master, for trusting me and for his generosity. Lets get some great comments.

TAPEGEEK (OUR RECORDIST) SAYS:

If you have ever heard this recording of this show before, it is because I used to trade cassettes with people all over the world, and so many dubs of this master have made the rounds - I have been waiting for a very long time for someone like hitwitstuff2 to help me out with getting these shows properly digitized and shared, and so many thanks are due to him - share your recordings folks!!!

OK by the time that I saw this show I had already seen and recorded my idol Dick Dale The King of the Surf Guitar a couple of times, in fact I had even interviewed him for a local rag when "Tribal Thunder" came out, and I had already gotten him to sign pretty much every bit of Dick Dale ephemera that I owned - in other words, I was (and still am) a total Dick-Head, as we fans refer to ourselves - this show was totally great of course - I recorded from near the SB, I usually suspended my mic from a tangle of cables that rose to the ceiling - Bogart's was an awesome small club with a great sound system, so, enjoy!

And, a personal note - Dick is currently touring now, and from what I am reading he has gone through so many physical challenges currently that it is unsure how just many more shows this indomitable force of nature has left in him - please do go see him if he is coming near you, bring all of your friends, tell him how great that he is, buy some merch either there or online (go to his official site of course), and I promise that the man and his music will blow your mind - he's been blasting away for almost 60 years now!!! Thank you!

Please trade this show freely, but do not alter the files or any of the info, do not convert the FLACs to MP3s unless it is just for your own personal use, and above all do not sell this recording in any way! -Tapegeek

NOTE! NOT MANY TRACKS, I SIMPLY DIDN’T WANT TO BUST UP THE FLOW OF THE NON-STOP MEDLEYS

1. Medley one
2. Medley two
3. banter
4. Medley three
5. intro banter
6. Death of a Gremmie
7. banter
8. Let The Fun Begin/Peter Gunn
9. crowd
10. Medley four
11. Peter Gunn outro



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