Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimting with reverb.
Most of the leading bands in surf music, such as The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and The Trashm, were influced by Dale's music, and oft included recordings of Dale's songs in their albums.
He has be credited with popularizing tremolo picking on electric guitar, a technique that is now widely used in many musical gres (such as extreme metal, jazz fusion, etc.).
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Working together with Leo Fder, Dale also pushed the limits of electric amplification technology, helping to develop new equipmt that was capable of producing thick and previously unheard volumes including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier.
The use of his recording of Misirlou by Qutin Tarantino in the film Pulp Fiction led to his return in the 1990s, marked by four albums and world tours. He was also nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumtal Performance category for the song Pipeline with Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Dick Dale was born Richard Anthony Monsour in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1937. He was of Lebanese desct from his father, James,
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His family subsequtly moved to Quincy, Massachusetts, which at the time had a significant Lebanese population in the neighborhood of Quincy Point. He learned the piano wh he was nine after listing to his aunt playing it.
He was giv a trumpet in sevth grade, and later acquired a ukulele (for $6 part exchange), after having become influced by Hank Williams.
Dale th bought a guitar from a frid for $8, paying him back in installmts. He learned to play the instrumt, using both lead and rhythm styles, so that the guitar filled the place of drums. His early tarabaki drumming later influced his guitar playing, particularly his rapid alternate picking technique. Dale referred to this as the pulsation, noting all instrumts he played derived from the tarabaki.
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He was raised in Quincy until he completed the elevth grade at Quincy High School in 1954, wh his father, a machinist, took a job working for Hughes Aircraft Company in the Southern California aerospace industry.
As a Lebanese-American, he retained a strong interest in Arabic music, which later played a major role in his developmt of surf rock music.
Dale began playing in local country western rockabilly bars where he met Texas Tiny in 1955, who gave him the name Dick Dale because he thought it was a good name for a country singer.
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Dale employed non-Western scales in his playing. He regularly used reverb, which became a trademark of surf guitar. Being lefthanded, Dale would become known for his unorthodox method of playing a right-handed guitar upside-down, doing so (like Albert King) without restringing the guitar (while Hdrix, by comparison, would restring his guitar). Ev after he acquired a proper left-handed guitar, Dale continued to use his reverse stringing.
He partnered with Leo Fder to test new equipmt, later saying Wh it can withstand the barrage of punishmt from Dick Dale, th it is fit for the human consumption. His combination of loud amplifiers and heavy gauge strings led him to be called the Father of Heavy Metal.
After Dale blew up several Fder amplifiers, Leo Fder and Freddie Tavares saw Dale play at the Rdezvous Ballroom, Balboa, California and idtified the problem arose from him creating a sound louder than the audice screaming. The pair visited the James B. Lansing loudspeaker company and asked for a custom 15-inch loudspeaker, which became the JBL D130F model, and was known as the Single Showman Amp. Dale's combination of a Fder Stratocaster with a Fder Showman Amp allowed him to attain significantly louder volume levels unobtainable by th-convtional equipmt.
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Furthering the developmt, the Showman Amp later added a second 15-inch JBL D-130 speaker, and it was named the Dual Showman Amp.
Dale's performances at the Rdezvous Ballroom in Balboa in mid to late 1961 are credited with the creation of the surf music phomon. Dale obtained permission to use the 3, 000 person capacity ballroom for surfer dances after overcrowding at a local ice cream parlor where he performed made him seek other vues.
The Rdezvous ownership and the city of Newport Beach agreed to Dale's request on the condition that he prohibit alcohol sales and implemt a dress code. Dale's evts at the ballrooms, called stomps, quickly became legdary, and the evts routinely sold out.
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This was followed by more locally released songs, including Jungle Fever and Surf Beat on his own Deltone label. His first full-lgth album was Surfers' Choice in 1962. The album was picked up by Capitol Records and distributed nationally, and Dale soon began appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, and in films where he played his signature single Miserlou. He later stated, I still remember the first night we played it (Misirlou). I changed the tempo, and just started cranking on that mother. And ... it was eerie. The people came rising up off the floor, and they were chanting and stomping. I guess that was the beginning of the surfer's stomp.
Dale later said There was a tremdous amount of power I felt while surfing and that feeling of power was simply transferred into my guitar. His playing style reflected the experice he had wh surfing, and projecting the power of the ocean to people.
Dale and the Del-Tones performed both sides of his Capitol single, Secret Surfin' Spot in the 1963 movie Beach Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.
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Surf rock's national popularity was somewhat brief, as the British Invasion began to overtake the American charts in 1964. Though he continued performing live, Dale developed colorectal cancer.
In the liner notes of Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology, Dale quoted Jimi Hdrix saying, Th you'll never hear surf music again in response to hearing he might be terminally ill. Dale covered Third Stone from the Sun as a tribute to Hdrix.
Though he recovered, he retired from music for several years. In 1979, he almost lost a leg after a pollution-related infection of a mild swimming injury. As a result, Dale became an vironmtal activist and soon began performing again. He recorded a new album in 1986 and was nominated for a Grammy. In 1987 he appeared in the movie Back to the Beach, playing surf music and performing Pipeline with Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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In 1993, he recorded a guitar solo for the track Should Have Known released as a vinyl single by the Southern California indie band, The Pagodas.
The use of Miserlou in the 1994 Qutin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction gained him a new audice. The following year, John Peel praised his playing following a gig in the Garage, London.
The same year, he recorded a surf-rock version of Camille Saint-Saëns's Aquarium from The Carnival of the Animals for the musical score of the closed roller coaster, Space Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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Dale was inducted to the Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame in 1996. In 2000 the U.S. House of Represtatives elected Dale into the Library of Congress Hall of Records for outstanding achievemts in music.
In June 2009, Dale began a West Coast tour from southern California to British Columbia, with approximately 20 concert dates. Forever Came Calling (or FCC) featured Dale's th-17-year-old son, Jimmie Dale on drums, who oped for him. He was scheduled to play the Australian One Great Night On Earth festival to raise funds to befit those affected by the Black Saturday bushfires and other natural disasters.
Dale said that he was forced to keep touring to the d of his life, because of his inability to afford his medical costs.
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Dale was married three times. His first wife Jeannie in the 1970s was a Tahitian dancer in Hawaii and provided backup vocals for the 1975 release Spanish Eyes.
Together, they created a musical revue and toured at resorts in Las Vegas, Ro and Lake Tahoe. From the proceeds, the couple made successful investmts in nightclubs and real estate, allowing Dale to purchase his three-story 17 room dream mansion at the Wedge in Newport Beach. Jeannie toured with Dale and his Deltones through the early '80s up until their very public and bitter divorce in 1984, which depleted much of Dale's accumulated wealth.
Together they had a son, James (who later performed professionally as Jimmy Dale), born in 1992. Dale credits Jill for his transition from surf rock to a more raw and stripped-down style that consisted of just him and two other musicians. Jill provided back up vocals and drum tracks for Dale's 1993 Tribal Thunder album.
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Dale married his third wife Lana in 2011. Dale later owned a home with a small private airstrip in the Mojave Desert east of Los Angeles, and flew his own private aircraft (a Piper Tri-Pacer). The airstrip was marked as Dale on the NOAA aeronautical charts.
He said that, for health reasons, he never used alcohol or other drugs, and discouraged their use by band members and road crew. In 1972, he stopped eating red meat. He studied
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