Artist
Dick Dale
Dick Dale is a rock artist from Boston, Massachusetts, USA formed in 1959. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Best rock albums
- 30
- Releases
- 1960–2025
- Active years
- 1959
- Formed
Artist
Dick Dale is a rock artist from Boston, Massachusetts, USA formed in 1959. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Best rock albums
Most popular
Calling Up Spirits
1996
Surfer's Choice
2006
Tribal Thunder
1993
Unknown Territory
1994
Misirlou
2024
Legend of the Surf Guitar
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Live At The Rainbow Theatre (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)
2023
King Of Surf Guitar Live!
2022
Dick Dale and His Del-Tones - "King of the Surf Guitar" - Let's Go Trippin (25 Hits 1962)
2021
Surf Beat Live, Monterey CA 1995
2019
Greatest Hits
2018
Instrumental Rock and Roll, Vol. 8
2017
Live At The Santa Monica Pier
2017
Live Santa Monica Pier
2015
Live on the Santa Monica Pier
2015
King of the Surf Guitar
2014
Night Rider
2014
Surfin' Guitar
2014
Greatest Surf Guitar
2013
The King of Surf Guitar
2013
Surf Beat
2013
At the Drags
2012
Mr Eliminator
2006
Spacial Disorientation
2001
The Phantom Surfers & Dick Dale
1996
Surf With Me Now!
1960
Wanna Surf?
1960
Dick Dale (born Richard Anthony Monsour on May 4, 1937) is a Lebanese 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 picking technique" as well as his showmanship with the guitar is considered a precursor to heavy metal music, influencing guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen.
