The Book of Dale George Lytle: Layers of Success from the Bands Angeles and Kore

By Steven Kain, Dale George Lytle and Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell

This book is about the life of Dale George Lytle, who picked up his first guitar at the age of 12 after going to a Grand Funk Railroad concert. At the age of 19 his mother was murdered and his father had left him at the age of 6 so now left without parents the Band Angeles became his family. Along with thousands of Los Angeles California fans who at that time gave all there support in the means of clothes, food, and band equipment. We soon became one of LA's most popular bands in the 80's. And well into 2013 the Band Angeles is still going strong. ce by measuring, monitoring and predicting the behavior of employees and customers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781463443177

Steven Kain

I have been into music playing guitar writing songs and performing for over 30 years living in the Los Angeles area

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© 2011 DALE GEORGE LYTLE. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse  06/21/2022

ISBN: 978-1-4634-4318-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4634-4317-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011914392

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Special Thanks to Juan P. Hoyos and FEATHERS, SIGNS &

PRINTING; located in Canyon Country, California

Editor, Phil Wright

Cover Photo by Natalie Martin

Contents

Introduction

Forward

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

I would like to give very special thanks to Corey and

Julie Lytle for all the hard work they are continuing to

put into creating the website, angelesband.com

-Introduction-

Well, here it is. Get Your Rock’s Off. Never before have I smiled so calmly wild…

Jeff Wayne ~ Patrick Russell

-Forward-

Testing: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Ahhh, it really started, it all really started in 1969. I got a guitar for Christmas and my mom dropped me off at the A.C.C.; went to a Grand Funk Concert in the Anaheim Convention Center; saw Grand Funk and Mark Farner and was sold from there - they broke out windows and there was a riot and they were sold out, and when they hit the stage it was like nothing I had ever experienced or seen, in my life. And it was something in my life I could not go without doing myself.

I picked up a guitar, which I never put down. And once I picked it up, I played twelve hours a day. Never putting it down for a moment at friend’s house’s. Sitting around in little blacklight rooms, with their little blacklight parties; and they would be there smoking pot and I would be running scales and writing songs and playing guitar. And, I don’t, I don’t know - might of smoked some pot too, I’m not real sure...

But yeah, got that first guitar at twelve years old and never put it down. It was because of Grand Funk Railroad and Mark Farner...

Grand Funk Railroad?

Yep, Grand Funk Railroad; ‘I’m Your Captain,’ and ‘Inside Looking Out, -I’m sitting here lonely like a broken man, served my time - doing the best I can - the walls and bars they surround me - but their’s no sympathy. Yep, it was Mark Farner then also Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. I really got into them and liked their music - and Elvis Presley. Between them and on and on between the great bands. Gawd, the Rolling Stones."

What do you think of Keith Richards?

He is a fabulous hook- writer; guitar player. Incredible hook, -hook- writer. Jumping Jack Flash,’ is one of the most famous Rock n’ Roll guitar- hook that is one of the first licks a guitarist would play. Led Zeppelin’s Rock n’ Roll song - is also probably another riff any first guitarist play’s. And the Stones ‘Sticky Fingers Album’ to ‘Wild Horses,’ they all wrote some incredible music." .

I always liked Angie myself.

[singing] "Angie, Annnnnnnngie! Oh, yeah, great song. And ‘Wild Horses.’ All that phenomenal stuff. Yeah it was all about playing in garage’s. Getting a drummer, the excitement; and the feeling of writing new song’s. That we’re your own, I was one never to really copy songs. I was never really one to sit down and learn copy songs. That wasn’t my fortay. That wasn’t my speciality. It wasn’t what I enjoyed, it didn’t excite me. I didn’t feel any accomplishments. Any, any, I got no satisfaction out of playing something somebody else wrote. I wanted to create something on my own."

So, you wanted creativity.

Yeah, you know...

You wanted to be a Beethoven.

"Yeah, I wanted to invent. I wanted, I wanted to invent something. Writing a new song was inventing something. It was an invention. Wow! This came from my soul. This came from within. You, know, this wasn’t something somebody else wrote."

It was the gift God gave you.

Correct. It came from within. I tried to make them always hooky - real hooky. Not something that just somebody, anybody would write. I always made sure they were something unique, different and stoodout like nothing else. Like ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ or like ‘Whole Lotta Love.’ You know I got Keeper of the Gate and Nasty Girls, and You Want Me to Love You, Chivalry, and Thunder. And the second album, Moving to Slow, Moving to Fast. That’s all from Angeles and going into Kore with A Little Bit Faster, and The Band Play’s On. Kore is in the planning stages and working on a song right now for Ford to see if we can get a mid-west type commercial; Spring 2012. Such as; driving through the wheatfields with a long haired girl driving. Down the Road, would be a perfect song for that.

Music is such a wonderful thing, like your’ writing and poetry. Makes you feel good.

What was your first/and or first favorite guitar?

"It was like a Ford Mustang, which is kinda’ funny. I believe it was a Fender Mustang. That’s what is was. In all actuality, it was a Fender Stratocaster, but it was a Fender Mustang... I believe that’s what it was. I could be wrong. I’m not