"I don't know how to play a goddamned scale. I don't know what a 13th is, or an augmented ninth. I could give a shit. All I do is make the guitar scream with pain or pleasure." So said the late Dick ...

This past summer, Billboard ran an article on surf rock guitar legend Dick Dale, about how he’s (literally) touring to stay alive. The guitarist, who just turned 79 earlier this month, pays his ...

The surf’s up in California (thanks to Hurricane Marie from Mexico) as 15-foot waves have been pounding beaches from Mexico to Malibu. I just heard Dick Dale‘s most famous surf song, “Misirlou” and ...

Born Richard Anthony Monsour on May 4, 1937, in Boston, guitarist Dick Dale pushed the limits of what was possible with his instrument. Pioneering surf music and working with Leo Fender to develop ...

With at least a half-dozen “best of” compilations dedicated to collecting Dick Dale’s red hot guitar licks, do we need another? Probably not, but I certainly welcome any chance to reacquaint myself ...

Like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Dick Dale was an undisputed guitar god. Known as The King of Surf Guitar, he amplified the sound of California’s surf culture with his gold Fender Stratocaster ...

Dick Dale is in a small group of great musicians. He created a sound. In the way that Bill Monroe created bluegrass or W.C. Handy is credited with establishing the blues, Dale created surf music. Dale ...

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Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Miserlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin'” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81. His former ...

Guitarist Dick Dale, whose fast, thunderous sound pioneered the California "surf rock" genre of the early 1960s and gained a new generation of fans decades later through its appearance in "Pulp ...