Home on the range at Portuguese Bend with Dewey Bunnell
Penny and Dewey Bunnell with Noname, who formerly ran wild in Nevada. Photo by David Fairchild (DavidFairchildStudio.com I’ve come to Portuguese Bend to talk with Dewey Bunnell about horses, wild horses as well as the one in the backyard of the home he shares with his wife Penny. But there’d been sad news the day before, and Bunnell briefly reminisced about surf guitarist Dick Dale, whose obit had appeared online and in print. That a discussion about horses would begin with a discussion about musical influences shouldn’t be surprising. Bunnell is a founding member of the internationally-known pop-rock group America. Dick Dale was responsible for getting him into music, he said “The every first guitar hero I ever had was Dick Dale,” Bunnell says. This was in the early 1960s, when Bunnell’s father was stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc. “I was only 13 at the time, if even that. My parents played a lot of Elvis, Patsy Cline and Tony Bennett. So I’d heard music but it was just background music.” And then he heard Dick Dale. “I remember really listening to that sound, that deep, loud reverb guitar, and I got into it. And that’s what inspired me to pick up the guitar.”…
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