The surf guitar king was not only a Fender man to his bones – he had a close working relationship with Leo Fender himself ...

Dick Dale, the legendary surf-rock guitarist who influenced Eddie Van Halen and Brian May, died on March 16, 2019, at age 81.

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 ...

Last Sunday (one day after the Kvelertak show), backlit with our lady of liberty and the east river’s special scum, The King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale played the perfect venue– on the water. The ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- 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.

The Jimmy Dale Surf Trio will perform with The Starhoppers Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at The Old Steeple, 246 Berding St., Ferndale. The Old Steeple website says, “For Dale, music — specifically surf music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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