When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Guitar Tricks Surf guitar is iconic. The moment you hear a tremolo-picking slide you can ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a guy whose forte was guitar instrumentals, Dick Dale had a way with words. “I’ve been performing since 1955 . . . and I’m going to keep performing until I die because I’m not ...

Like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Dick Dale was an undisputed guitar god. Known as The King of Surf Guitar, he amplified the sound of California’s surf culture with his gold Fender Stratocaster ...

The Blue Hawaiians from Los Angeles were there, as were Frankie & the Pool Boys from San Francisco and Fascinating Creatures of the Deep from Santa Cruz. The Black Flamingos came in from New Jersey as ...

In Pound For The Sound, Phoenix New Times get technical with local musicians about what gear they use to create their signature tones. Trey Rhodes, Surfside IV guitarist and founding member, once hung ...

DICK DALE: Guitar Player magazine once asked me, who is your influence? And I said Hank Williams. And they said Hank Williams doesn't play electric guitar. And but that's who it was. And music to me ...

Dick Dale, a California-based musician and surfer whose rumbling and percussive guitar work drew inspiration from the thundering force of ocean waves, earning him the title king of surf guitar, died ...

Richard Monsour may have grown up in snowy Massachusetts, but the guitarist known as Dick Dale brought the rock music of California’s surf culture to the nation. Known as the “King of Surf Guitar,” ...

The guy is a huge part of surfing, music and Orange County history and was a pal of mine since the early 1960s. So, I thought today I would stroll through some of my “DD” memories, as ancient as they ...

The 007 theme is one of the most famous themes in movie history. The infamous guitar riff that gives the theme its secret agent feel was performed by Vic Flick, who spoke to Morning Edition about the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.

Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar” who formulated the sound and attack of the Southern California-bred instrumental style in the early ‘60s, has died. He was 81. His bassist, Sam Bolle, ...