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Dick Dale

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I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.


— Dick Dale


#anger #extension #frustration #i #music

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.


— Dick Dale


#going #i #people #perfectionist

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.


— Dick Dale


#buddy #buddy rich #could #doing #drummer

Every song is like a painting.


— Dick Dale


#like #painting #song

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.


— Dick Dale


#amplifiers #blowing #creating #dale #father

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.


— Dick Dale


#amputated #because #had #i #infection

I always felt people should live with animals.


— Dick Dale


#felt #i #i always #live #people

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.


— Dick Dale


#always #because #cowboy #guitar #hank

I became stereotyped.


— Dick Dale


#i #stereotyped

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.


— Dick Dale


#around #buy #dog #feed #forever






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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 was soon set back by rectal cancer. Peppermint Man / Surf Beat (Capitol 1962)
Secret Surfin Spot / Surfin' and Swingin' (Capitol 1963)
The Wedge / Night Rider (Capitol 1963)
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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 worked closely with Fender to produce custom made amplifiers including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier. He pioneered the surf music style drawing on Eastern musical scales and experimenting with reverberation.

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