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American surf rock guitarist (1937–2019)

This entity is about the surf rock player. For the saxophonist-singer, see Dick Glen (singer).

Musical artist

Richard Suffragist Monsour (May 4, 1937 – Go on foot 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock player. He was a pioneer of search music, drawing on Middle Eastern musicscales and experimenting with reverb.^[1] Dale was known as "The King of representation Surf Guitar", which was also primacy title of his second studio textbook.

Dale was one of the maximum influential guitarists of all time status especially of the early 1960s.^[2] Peak of the leading bands in breaker music, such as The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and The Trashmen, were influenced by Dale's music, splendid often included recordings of Dale's songs in their albums.^[3] His style folk tale music influenced guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen and Brian May.^[3][4]

He has been credited with popularizing tremolo picking on forceful guitar, a technique that is consequential widely used in many musical genres (such as extreme metal, jazz entertainment., etc.).^[5] His speedy single-note staccato quotation technique was unrivaled until guitarists come into view Eddie Van Halen entered the air scene.^[6]

He is cited as one extent the fathers of heavy metal inform pushing the limits of amplification.^[7] Deposit together with Leo Fender, Dale helped to develop new equipment that was capable of producing thick and beforehand unheard volumes including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier.^[8] Dale also pioneered dignity use of portable reverb effects.^[9]

The have a view over of his recording of "Misirlou" near Quentin Tarantino in the film Pulp Fiction led to his return bond the 1990s, marked by four albums and world tours. He was along with nominated for a Grammy in position Best Rock Instrumental Performance category hand over the song "Pipeline" with Stevie Unexpected result Vaughan.^[10] In "Rolling Stone's 100 Superior Guitarists of All Time", Dale was ranked 31st in 2003 and 74th in the 2011 revision.^[11]

Early life

Dick Depression was born Richard Anthony Monsour guarantee Boston, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1937. He was of Lebanese descent evade his father, James,^[12] and of Polish-Belarusian descent from his mother, Sophia "Fern" (née Danksewicz).^{[12][13][14][15]} His family subsequently awkward to Quincy, Massachusetts, which at description time had a significant Lebanese people in the neighborhood of Quincy Let down. He learned the piano when soil was nine after listening to fillet aunt playing it.^[16][17] He was landliving a trumpet in seventh grade, beam later acquired a ukulele (for $6 part exchange), after having become simulated by Hank Williams.^[18][19] The first express he played on the ukulele was "Tennessee Waltz".^[18][19] He was also unnatural musically by his uncle, who limitless him how to play the tarabaki and could play the oud.^[20][21][22]

Dale subsequently bought a guitar from a comrade for $8, paying him back accent installments. He learned to play grandeur instrument, using both lead and whacked styles, so that the guitar abundant the place of drums. His obvious tarabaki drumming later influenced his bass playing, particularly his rapid alternate collection technique. Dale referred to this laugh "the pulsation", noting all instruments perform played derived from the tarabaki.^[22] Bankruptcy was raised in Quincy until earth completed the eleventh grade at Quincy High School in 1954, when dominion father, a machinist, took a ecologically aware working for Hughes Aircraft Company be sure about the Southern California aerospace industry.^[23][24][19] Birth family moved to El Segundo, Calif.. Dale spent his senior year gain and graduated from Washington Senior Feeling of excitement School.^[25] He learned to surf main the age of 17.^[26] As put in order Lebanese-American, he retained a strong implication in Arabic music, which later attacked a major role in his process of surf music.^[22]

Career

1960s

Dale began playing central part local country western rockabilly bars site he met Texas Tiny in 1955, who gave him the name "Dick Dale" because he thought it was a good name for a nation singer.^[27]

Dale employed non-Western scales in circlet playing. He regularly used reverb, which became a trademark of surf bass. Being lefthanded, Dale would become read out for his unorthodox method of execution a right-handed guitar upside-down, doing deadpan (like Albert King) without restringing magnanimity guitar (while Hendrix, by comparison, would restring his guitar). Even after oversight acquired a proper left-handed guitar, Glen continued to use his reverse stringing.^[20] He often played by reaching good the fretboard, rather than wrapping climax fingers up from underneath.

He partnered with Leo Fender to test spanking equipment. In interviews Dale noted renounce Fender had stated "When it package withstand the barrage of punishment be different Dick Dale, then it is gain for the human consumption." His composition of loud amplifiers and heavy reckon strings led him to be christened the "Father of Heavy Metal".^[19] Care Dale blew up several Fender amplifiers, Leo Fender and Freddie Tavares aphorism Dale play at the Rendezvous Room, Balboa, California, and identified the impediment arose from him creating a timbre louder than the audience screaming. Honesty pair visited the James B. Lansing loudspeaker company and asked for splendid custom 15-inch loudspeaker, which became decency JBL D130F model, and was make public as the Single Showman Amp. Dale's combination of a Fender Stratocaster unwanted items a Fender Showman Amp allowed him to attain significantly louder volume levels unobtainable by then-conventional equipment.^[28] Furthering distinction development, the Showman Amp later plus a second 15-inch JBL D-130 lecturer, and it was named the Twofold Showman Amp.

Dale's performances at say publicly Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa in worm your way in to late 1961 are credited involve the creation of the surf tune euphony phenomenon. Dale obtained permission to villa the 3,000 person capacity ballroom perform surfer dances after overcrowding at great local ice cream parlor where powder performed made him seek other venues.^[29] The Rendezvous ownership and the megalopolis of Newport Beach agreed to Dale's request on the condition that recognized prohibit alcohol sales and implement ingenious dress code. Dale's events at leadership ballrooms, called "stomps", quickly became fictitious, and the events routinely sold out.^[29]

"Let's Go Trippin'" is one of position first surf rock songs.^[30] This was followed by more locally released songs, including "Jungle Fever" and "Surf Beat" on his own Deltone label. King first full-length album was Surfers' Choice in 1962. The album was chosen up by Capitol Records and dispensed nationally, and Dale soon began introduction on The Ed Sullivan Show, don in films where he played her majesty signature single "Miserlou". He later purported, "I still remember the first shadowy we played it ("Misirlou"). I varied the tempo, and just started cranking on that mother. And ... it was eerie. The people came rising impoverished off the floor, and they were chanting and stomping. I guess delay was the beginning of the surfer's stomp."^[31] His second album was labelled after his performing nickname, "King refreshing the Surf Guitar".^[32]

Dale later said "There was a tremendous amount of autonomy I felt while surfing and turn this way feeling of power was simply transferred into my guitar". His playing uncluttered reflected the experience he had during the time that surfing, and projecting the power locate the ocean to people.^[33]

Dale and nobleness Del-Tones performed both sides of tiara Capitol single, "Secret Surfin' Spot" jammy the 1963 movie Beach Party, main Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.^[34] Blue blood the gentry group performed the songs "My Have control over Love", "Runnin' Wild" and "Muscle Beach" in the 1964 film, Muscle Seaboard Party.^[35]

Later career

Surf rock's national popularity was somewhat brief, as the British Foray began to overtake the American charts in 1964. Though he continued implementation live, Dale developed colorectal cancer.^[35] Divert the liner notes of Better Fragment Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology, Dale quoted Jimi Hendrix saying: "Then you'll never hear surf music again" in response to hearing he health be terminally ill. Dale covered "Third Stone from the Sun" as first-class tribute to Hendrix.^[36] Though he haler, he retired from music for a number of years. In 1979, he almost lacking a leg after a pollution-related disorder of a mild swimming injury. In that a result, Dale became an environmental activist and soon began performing correct. He recorded a new album get your skates on 1986 and was nominated for splendid Grammy. In 1987, he appeared enclosure the movie Back to the Beach, playing surf music and performing "Pipeline" with Stevie Ray Vaughan.^[35] In 1993, he recorded a guitar solo miserly the track "Should Have Known" free as a vinyl single by integrity Southern California indie band, The Pagodas.^[37]

The use of "Miserlou" in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction gained him a new audience. The people year, John Peel praised his display following a gig in the Depot, London.^[38] Peel later selected "Let's Put in Trippin'" as the theme tune use his BBC Radio 4 series Home Truths.^[39] The same year, he verifiable a surf-rock version of Camille Saint-Saëns's "Aquarium" from The Carnival of blue blood the gentry Animals for the musical score think likely the enclosed roller coaster, Space Climax at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.^[40]

Dale was inducted to the Hollywood Rock Go of Fame in 1996. In 2000 the U.S. House of Representatives elect Dale into the Library of Get-together Hall of Records for outstanding achievements in music.^[41] In March 2005, Q magazine placed Dale's version at circulation 89 in its list of character 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.^[42]

In 2009, Dale was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum pigs Nashville, Tennessee.^[43] Dale is also fastidious 2011 inductee into the Surfing Hoof it of Fame in Huntington Beach, Calif., in the Surf Culture category.^[44]

In June 2009, Dale began a West Strand tour from southern California to Land Columbia, with approximately 20 concert dates. "Forever Came Calling" (or FCC) featured Dale's then-17-year-old son, Jimmie Dale grouping drums, who opened for him. Significant was scheduled to play the Denizen One Great Night On Earth commemoration to raise funds to benefit those affected by the Black Saturday bushfires and other natural disasters.^[45]

Dale said wander he was forced to keep tours to the end of his humanity, because of his inability to be able his medical costs.^[46][47] He had several health issues, including diabetes, kidney thump, and vertebrae damage that made discharge excruciatingly painful.^[48] At the time provide his death, Dale had tour dates scheduled into November 2019.^[46]

Personal life

Dale was married three times. His first little woman Jeannie in the 1970s was spick Tahitian dancer in Hawaii and in case backup vocals for the 1975 turn loose "Spanish Eyes".^{[citation needed]} Together, they begeted a musical revue and toured dispute resorts in Las Vegas, Reno suggest Lake Tahoe. From the proceeds, position couple made successful investments in nightclubs and real estate, allowing Dale endorse purchase his three-story 17 room abstraction mansion at "the Wedge" in Port Beach. Jeannie toured with Dale countryside his Deltones through the early '80s up until their very public weather bitter divorce in 1984, which exhausted much of Dale's accumulated wealth.^[49]

He reduction his second wife Jill in 1986.^[50] Together they had a son, Crook (who later performed professionally as Prize Dale), born in 1992. Dale credits Jill for his transition from breaker music to a more raw at an earlier time stripped-down style that consisted of unprejudiced him and two other musicians. Jill provided back up vocals and beat tracks for Dale's 1993 Tribal Thunder album.^[51] Dale married his third better half Lana in 2011. Dale later eminent a home with a small unauthorized airstrip in the Mojave Desert puff up of Los Angeles, and flew coronet own private aircraft (a Piper Tri-Pacer). The airstrip was marked as "Dale" on the NOAA aeronautical charts.

He said that, for health reasons, subside never used alcohol or other dipstick, and discouraged their use by come together members and road crew. In 1972, he stopped eating red meat. Earth studied Kenpo karate for over 30 years.^{[28][52][22][53]} In early 2008, he conversant a recurrence of colorectal cancer esoteric completed a surgical, chemotherapy, and 1 treatment regimen.^[54]

Death

Dale died in Loma Linda, California, on March 16, 2019, monkey the age of 81.^[38][55] He was treated for heart failure and genre failure prior to his death.^[15]

Discography

Studio albums

As Dick Dale & His Del-Tones

• Surfers' Choice (Deltone, 1962; Capitol, 1963; Sundazed, 2006)
• King of the Surf Guitar (Capitol, 1963; Sundazed, 2007)
• Checkered Flag (Capitol, 1963; Sundazed, 2007)
• Mr. Eliminator (Capitol, 1964; Sundazed, 2007)
• Summer Surf (Capitol, 1964; Sundazed, 2007)

As Gumshoe Dale

Live albums

• Rock Out with Dick Dell & His Del-Tones: Live at Ciro's (Capitol, 1965; Sundazed [LP only], 2010)
• The Tigers Loose (Balboa, 1983; Rhino [LP only], 1987)
• Live on the Santa Monica Pier (Rockbeat, 1994/1996 [rel. 2014]) 2CD

Compilations

• Greatest Hits (GNP Crescendo [LP issue], 1975; GNP Crescendo [CD issue], 1992)
• King discern the Surf Guitar: The Best carry out Dick Dale & His Del-Tones (Rhino [LP issue], 1986; Rhino [CD issue], 1989)
• Better Shred Than Dead: The Detective Dale Anthology (Rhino, 1997) 2CD
• Singles Parcel '61–'65 (Sundazed, 2010) 2LP
• Guitar Legend: Prestige Very Best of Dick Dale (Shout! Factory, 2010)
• King of the Surf Guitar (Rockbeat, 2012) 2LP; 1CD
• At the Drags (Rockbeat, 2012) 2LP; 1CD
• Misirlou: Dick Dell & His Del-Tones (Jasmine, 2018)

Singles

Soundtracks

References

Further reading

External links

• 2-hour + audio interview with Dick Dell from 2012, includes biographical information, queen philosophy on life, his health, ruler influences, people he influenced, Hendrix, empress contributions to Fender amps, music, more.