You really don't get it.Dick Dale's uncorroborated claims are not fact.I know what he claims. I'm asking you to provide any independent confirmation of those claims. Not more self-promoting bilge from Dick Dale or his supporters.I imagine we've all had at least one family member suffer from cancer. That has nothing to do with the question.
Again read the links I posted before. The ones from Rollingstone and from BBC, Dale came down with Rectal Cancer in 1966 and in 2008 it came back. In the sixties Cancer wasn't as treatable as it is now, that was the reason why he retired from performing in the sixties. Hendrix heard of Dale being hospitalized and saluted him in "third stone from the sun" which was recorded in the same year when Dale was diagnosed with Cancer, so it all adds up again.
You wanted a trustworthy answer and who better to ask than the man himself.
OK, this is the biggest load of bullshit yet.Listen to the box set or bootlegs for the unedited version of the chatter recorded for "Third Stone". Jimi and Chas Chandler are laughing the entire time and after he says "and you'll never hear surf music again" he adds "that sounds like a lie to me" and then laughs some more. Doesn't sound like they're discussing anyone's medical problems.This has absolutely nothing to do with Dick Dale's cancer (which Jimi struggling to get gigs in NY in 1966 was probably not even aware of and in '67 was in London recording) but everything to do with Jimi knowing full well that his style of playing was light years from anything related to the surf music scene. This is fabrication, bullshit, repeated and reprinted. Tell the same lie so many times it becomes "fact". Where do you come up with this crap?Good idea, let's ask the guy that started the story.
in the 60's i missed my only concert ever, that was because i dropped from pain and i was bleeding from my ass... we had a saying in those days if you missed a concert it was called a no show.... i found jimi when he was playing Bass for Little Richard in a bar to 30 people in Pasadena Ca., he wasnt called jimi hendrix then.... jimi would come to see me and i would show him my slides and how i got my power out of my Strat.... he was a very quiet and polite fella and no drugs at that time.. in fact, Buddy Miles his drummer would open for me at my concerts and Buddy would always tell the audience that there wasnt a day go by that jimi didnt say... ''dick dale taught me my best shit'' i thought that was funny...ha anyway when jimi was recording he told his guitar player, ''i heard dd did a no show'' his guitar player replied ''no, he's dying man'' I have tapes i have of jimi at that session speaking and he said, ''Quote'' ''i,m out in space, ohhh you'll never hear surf music again, BUT, I BET THAT'S A BIG LIE, LETS GO HOME BOYS'' (that part was never released to the public) Jimi then dedicated 3rd stone to dd as it was the only instrumental that he ever did without singing.... That is why i dedicated it back to jimi with me saying.... ''Jimi, I'm still here, Wish you were'' ........ that was my quote back to jimi... when i went into the hospital, i overheard the nurse say to the surgeon as they were shoving the camera up into my ass, Oh My God doctor.... the doc said SHHH (shush) the doc then said to me i am operating on you in the morning.... at that point i was told i had 3 months to live..... they then cut out 14 inches of one side of my rectal trac, 6 tumors and 7 cysts and the surgeon said lets see if we got it all.... i went down to 98 pounds and a horrible painful stay in the hospital in recovery... they continued to open me up afterwards to look for more cancer.... I started to feel sorry for myself and i went to Hawaii to surf the rest of my days left on this earth.....those were the thoughts in my mind... I then met Ed Parker a master in kenpo Karate in Hawaii and the Mitosi family also Masters in the martial arts and i became one with them.... the rest is history. I would fast for 30 days putting nothing but hot tea, ginsing and honey in my body and i would train a very heavy schedule. my cancer was gone... As for my cancer battle now, i knew i had the cancer because i was bleeding again from my rectum for the last 17 years. I was going through a very heavy divorce at the time and i didnt want to go through the pain that i went through as i did at my first cancer attack.... i just told myself, screw it, when it takes me, it will take me... i was doing 39 concerts in 42 days and i was getting ready to go back to europe for my next 40 concerts... My manager Matt Marshall said to me, Stop thinking about yourself and go in and get checked, you have a 16 year old son to worry about. so i went into the hospital and they told me what i already knew what i had... cancer in the same place as the first time... it was going through the walls, a giant tumor... 3 surgeons and 8 hours later they cut the tumor out... that is another story....ha i now dont give a shit what cancer thinks.... i am playing my guitar and i am supporting my son with his dream.... the divorce still isn't over.....ha thats life.... ps.... i was never dropped from any record company..... my father bought all the rights and the masters to my music from capital records and we went and formed our own companies... also... both of my cancers came from polyps becoming cancerous tumors from straining in my body.... cancer means dead cell, when blood sits in a polyp from straining and is not checked upon to be cut out it will become a tumor and cancer occurs. it was all my fault not going in early to be checked.... dick
However, I DO believe what he said about his father buying the rights to his music and the master tapes when Dale was struck by cancer.
Well in the end no one was proven right or wrong here, Dale's reply to my question is a little *ahem* vague.
However, I DO believe what he said about his father buying the rights to his music and the master tapes when Dale was struck by cancer. The fact that all that music has survived really IS conclusive evidence of that. Because back then, it was common practice of a record company to destroy the master tapes if an artist or band was dropped by that particular label, since there was no reason to print albums from that artist anymore. God knows what amazing artists we never got to hear about aside from some rare out of print LP compilation, thanks to that ruthless policy.
