Dale, Dick
Lightning-fast instrumental rock guitarist; surf music innovator in the early 1960s, and known as the "King of Surf Guitar." Born Richard Monsour (1937) in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a Lebanese machinist, Dale as a child taught himself to play Hank Williams songs on ukulele and guitar. He began surfing as a teenager in the mid-'50s, after his family moved west to the Los Angeles County beac...
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Dick Dale "King of the Surf Guitar" LP cover, 1963Subscribe to view
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Dick Dale
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Dick Dale. Photo: John Severson / SURFER
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Dick Dale concert poster, 1964
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Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, 1961
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Dick Dale, 1963. Photo: Michael Ochs
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Dick Dale "King of the Surf Guitar" LP cover, 1963