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February 18, 1999

Donita Sparks -- L7

"Les Paul doesn't look like the hippest cat on the block, and yet he's playing amazing stuff."

Tribal Thunder

Guitarists revere Dick Dale as the originator of the reverb-drenched surf-guitar style and as the co-inventor – with Leo Fender – of that iconic amplifier, the Twin Reverb. The Fender Twin's side-by-side stereo speakers enabled guitarists to adjust their tonal settings differently for each...

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Dick Dale is the one true king of surf guitar, the ne plus ultra, the sine qua non, alpha and omega, everyone else pack up and go home. The least of his accomplishments is documented in his appearances in '60s beach movies in which the renegade picker sports a hoop earring -- placing him about a decade ahead of the cultural curve with regard to male fashion accessorizing. With the release of his f...

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