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Bob Baker's Newsthinking |
 | | The Dale saga had already been well-documented in the Times, but there were a couple of interesting new angles to explore: his prospects for a successful comeback as a recording artist and touring attraction, and his new life as a family man in the desert, far from his old surfing haunts. |
 | | Dale says he was smitten at first sight with the young woman, who worked as a veterinary assistant, shared his love of animals and didn't know Dick Dale from Dale Evans. |
 | | Dale says that the review, coupled with his wife's continuing exhortations to just "crank on the guitar," finally persuaded him to drop the show-band approach and play bare-bones power rock (of course, the prospect of having to pay only two backing players, instead of 10 or 11, probably had some appeal, too). |
| www.newsthinking.com /story.cfm?SID=133 (7138 words) |
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