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.
I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.
When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.
I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.
...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out...
I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
I always felt people should live with animals.
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.