Surfer, sound pioneer and guitarist Dick Dale dies at 81 GlobeArts
Dick Dale, who was known as the King of the Surf Guitar and recorded the hit song “Misirlou,” which was revived on the “Pulp Fiction” film soundtrack, died on March 16, 2019, in Loma Linda, California. He was 81.
“I played a gig with him about a month ago,” Bolle said. “He was still slaughtering people with volume.” But Dale became known for defining the sound of surf guitar as a musical expression of the elemental surge of the ocean, with its savage waves, its volatile crosscurrents and its tidal undertow. He played melodies that crisscrossed the beat with the determination of a surfer riding through choppy waves, forging a triumphant path above deep turbulence.
Leo Fender, one of the electric guitar’s trailblazers, worked with Dale to create a guitar sturdy enough to withstand his style — Dale called it the Beast — and an 85-watt amplifier that could crank up loud enough to fill a dance hall. Chris Darrow, a multi-instrumentalist who has been in the music industry for more than 50 years, first saw Dale perform at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Newport Beach, California, in the early 1960s.
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