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Deke's Guitar Geek Festival January 2005 |
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Photos © BABAK www.babak.ca (Thanks!!) |
  Nokie Edwards of the Ventures and Dick Dale, on stage together for the first time!  The doubleneck trainwreck -- 24 players on 12 doubleneck guitars! A feat never before attempted!  Del Casher, Ecco-Fonic tape echo demonstrator from the 1950s, inventor of the Vox Wah-Wah pedal in the 1960s, and a good friend of Les Paul, plays his Les Paul tribute set!  Dick Dale, Lady Bo, and Nokie Edwards!  Deke takes the stage!  For the first time since 1996, Dave meets Deke on stage for a version of "Deke's Hot Guitar!"  Big Sandy, Buddy Dughi, and T.K. Smith as part of the Gene Vincent and Cliff Gallup tribute set!  Dave and Deke reunited!  Deke picks his "hot guitar!"  The backbeat who held together the evening -- Chris "Sugarballs" Sprague on drums!  Brian Lonbeck, awesome Maphis-style picker from Bakersfield, plays "Early American" with Deke!  Deke and Sugarballs play some twin guitar on one doubleneck!   Brian Lonbeck tore it up with his fiddle playing too!  Brian Lonbeck wowing the crowd!  Garrett Immel of Venturesmania, Nokie Edwards of the Ventures, Dick Dale, and Deke Dickerson  Nokie Edwards, Dick Dale, Deke Dickerson -- summit of the surf!  Garrett Immel and Dick Dale  Brian Lonbeck has to concentrate to pull off "Fiddling on the Guitar" -- the hardest Maphis tune ever!  Bobby Trimble strikes a classic pose while playing with Big Sandy, T.K., and Wally!  Garrett Immel, Dick Dale, and Deke Dickerson  Some great pictures of the guitar museum... Thanks to Mark van arx for these!      Even more Geekfest photos... Thanks to Stephanie Corkill for the following!                   Deke with Nokie Edwards and Dick Dale (photo by Darin Cierley) |