For instance, when I do shows to raise money for burn victims, now I can talk to them and know what they are going through. We’re with you.’ ”Ī firm believer in the “silver lining” school of dealing with adversity, Dale added: “With every problem comes a gift in hand. The thing that pulled me through was all the letters from fans saying, ‘Hang in there, Dick. What I’ve been through, there ain’t nothin’ that I cannot continue going through when I have the people that I have behind me. In October, his application to open a new nightclub in Costa Mesa was rejected by the City Council.Ī week later, Dale was severely injured while cooking popcorn when the hot oil exploded and left second-degree burns over much of his body, including his left hand, which is still reddened and deeply scarred from the accident.Įxhibiting the tenacity of the tigers and other wild animals he has been known to keep in his home, the 46-year-old musician said: “It’s no big deal. He lost one of two Rendezvous nightclubs he owned to his ex-wife in a divorce settlement and the other was sold to the city of Garden Grove as part of the city’s plan to renovate the shopping center in which it was located.

Dale spent the last part of 1983 in and out of Orange County Superior Court fighting child molestation charges (he was acquitted on 10 of 12 charges and the other two were dismissed).

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