Dick Dale
Dick Dale
Dick Daleis an American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. He pioneered the surf music style, drawing on Eastern musical scales and experimenting with reverberation. He worked closely with Fender to produce custom made amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier. He pushed the limits of electric amplification technology, helping to develop new equipment that was capable of producing distorted, "thick, clearly defined tones" at "previously undreamed-of volumes." The "breakneck speed of his single-note staccato...
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth4 May 1937
CityBoston, MA
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.
There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.
As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Every song is like a painting.
I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
I've got holes in my guitar.
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
I became stereotyped.