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Capitol, GNP Crescendo Records, Deltone. Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. [1] Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar", which was also the title ...
The archetypal 1966 surf documentary might have been scored by The Sandals, but the sound and the cultural dominance of surf culture would perhaps never come into being, and may not have survived the decade, without Dick Dale, who died on March 18th at the age of 81. His gnarly, menacing guitar on songs like “Miserlou” and “Pipeline” ...
By Mark Savage. Surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale, whose song Misirlou played over the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, has died aged 81. Dale was known for his blindingly fast ...
Redferns. Dick Dale, “the King of the Surf Guitar,” has died at the age of 81. California Rocker first reported that Dale died Friday. His bassist Sam Bolle confirmed Dale’s death to the ...
Dick Dale is a horseman, an exotic animal trainer, a martial arts expert, an archer, and a pilot whose favorite plane is a Cessna 337B Super Skymaster. His wife of nine years Lana is his soul mate ...
In a career that spanned 60 years, Dick Dale didn’t once crack Billboard’s Top 40.He’s also not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And if you look in any of the classic, old-school record ...
Guitarist Dick Dale has died at the age of 81. Dale was one of the pioneers of the surf guitar sound, and was perhaps best known for his 1962 version of the classic Misirlou. Originally a Greek song influenced by the music of the Middle East, in Dale's hands the instrumental was soaked in reverb with the volume cranked up, helping to popularise ...
