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 know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
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 always felt people should live with animals.
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
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.
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.
I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.
I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.
Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
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'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.