{"id":57995,"date":"2019-03-18T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=57995"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:35:14","slug":"the-king-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-king-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The king is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Dale, the king of the surf guitar, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/music\/news\/dick-dale-dead-dies-surf-guitar-king-1203165282\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">died Saturday<\/a> at the age of 81. I discovered his music late, when I listened to his comeback CD <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tribal-Thunder-Dick-Dale\/dp\/B00J58BZC0\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tribal Thunder<\/a><\/i> out of curiosity. Ever since then his spring reverb-infused twang has featured regularly in the various playlists I put together.<\/p>\n<p>Dale never hit the top 40. His biggest hit, &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Trippin&#8217;,&#8221; only went as high as #60 on the charts fifty-eight years ago. So what? Quality is at best weakly correlated with popularity.<span id='easy-footnote-1-57995' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-king-is-dead\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-57995' title='Nowadays, I&amp;#8217;m inclined to believe that there is an inverse relationship.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1gskj1VQR0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>His signature tune was the eastern Mediterranean tune &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Misirlou\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Miserlou<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKpsuGMeqHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dale often did covers of other people&#8217;s music. When he performed them, they became Dick Dale songs, no matter who wrote them. The following were once Link Wray and Johnny Cash tunes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jFolQmgL2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ri7nWs5595M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Dale, the king of the surf guitar, died Saturday at the age of 81. I discovered his music late, when I listened to his comeback CD Tribal Thunder out of curiosity. Ever since then his spring reverb-infused twang has featured regularly in the various playlists I put together. Dale never hit the top 40. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-king-is-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The king is dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-f5p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57995"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58003,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57995\/revisions\/58003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}