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
Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.
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.
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
I've got holes in my guitar.
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.
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
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.