Dick Dale - Surfin The Wedge - Live On TV 1963 Lawerence Welk Show

Dick Dale - Surfin the Wedge - Live on TV 1963 Lawerence Welk Show
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,[1] 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. Surfers' Choice (Deltone 1962) King of the Surf Guitar (Capitol 1963) Checkered Flag (Capitol 1963) Mr. Eliminator (Capitol 1964) Summer Surf (Capitol 1964) Rock out with Dick Dale and his Del-Tones: Live at Ciro's (Capitol 1965) Greatest Hits (GNP Crescendo 1975) The Tiger's Loose (Balboa 1983) Tribal Thunder (HighTone 1993) Unknown Territory (HighTone 1994) Calling Up Spirits (Beggars Banquet 1996) Spacial Disorientation (Dick Dale Records / The Orchard 2001)
Ooh-Whee Marie (Deltone 1959) Stop Teasing (Deltone 1959) Jesse Pearl (Deltone 1960) Let's Go Trippin' / Del-Tone Rock (Deltone 1961) Jungle Fever / Shake-N-Stomp (Deltone 1961) Misirlou / Eight 'Til Midnight (Deltone 1962) Mr. Peppermint Man / Surf Beat (Capitol 1962) Secret Surfin Spot / Surfin' and Swingin' (Capitol 1963)
The Wedge / Night Rider (Capitol 1963) Mr. Eliminator (Capitol 1964) Let's Go Trippin' '65 / Watusi Jo (Capitol 1965) Let's Go Trippin' / Those Memories Of You (GNP Crescendo 1975) "Pipeline" with Stevie Ray Vaughan, nominated for a Grammy
Hot Rod Music on Capitol (Capitol 1963) The Big Surfin' Sounds on Capitol (Capitol 1964) Golden Summer (United Artists 1976) King of the Surf Guitar: The Best of Dick Dale & The Del-Tones (Rhino 1989) Cowabunga Surf Box Set (Rhino 1996) Rocket Jockey (Rocket Science Games/SegaSoft 1996) Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology (Rhino 1997) MOM II Music for our Mother Ocean (Surf Dog Records 1997) Guitar Legend: The Very Best of Dick Dale (Shout! Factory 2010)
Dale has said that he has never used alcohol or drugs and discourages their use by band members and road crew. Health was a priority for him. In 1972, he stopped eating red meat. He studied martial arts for over 30-years. In early 2008, he experienced a recurrence of rectal cancer and finished a surgical, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment regimen. In June, 2009 Dick 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 then-17-year-old son, Jimmy Dale on drums, who opened for him. "Let's Go Trippin'" is often regarded as the first surf rock song. "Jungle Fever" and "Surf Beat" on his own Deltone label. His first full-length 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 "Misirlou". King of the Surf Guitar.

Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology, the thought, "Then you'll never hear surf music again," was Jimi Hendrix's reaction upon hearing that Dale had a possibly terminal case of colon cancer, intended to encourage his comrade to recuperate. Dale, in gratitude to his late friend, later covered "Third Stone from the Sun" as a tribute to Hendrix. 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. In 1993 he recorded a guitar solo on the track "Should Have Known" by Southern California indie band The Pagodas which was released as a vinyl single. The use of "Misirlou" in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction gained him a new audience.

In 1995, he recorded a surf-rock version of Camille Saint-Saëns's "Aquarium" from The Carnival of the Animals for the musical score of the enclosed roller coaster, Space Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

The National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche use Dale's song "Scalped" as their theme song. The Black Eyed Peas' song "Pump It" (from the 2005 album Monkey Business) heavily samples Dale's "Misirlou". "Misirlou" is also featured in the PlayStation 2 Xbox 360 video game, Guitar Hero II, as well as the Wii video game Rayman Raving Rabbids. film Space Jam, as Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam shoot out teeth from one of the Monstars, a clip from "Misirlou" is played.

Dale is a 2011 inductee into the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, California, in the Surf Culture category.