Surf guitar is iconic. The moment you hear a tremolo-picking slide you can instantly imagine surfers riding waves and hanging ...

Like a good guitar riff, Fender has had its ups and downs. ... making our instruments in California because it’s our heritage,” Norvell said. “It’s the Beach Boys. It’s surf music.

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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

Dick Dale, “the King of the Surf Guitar,” has died at the age of 81.. California Rocker first reported that Dale died Friday. His bassist Sam Bolle confirmed Dale’s death to the Guardian.No ...

But by the '70s this style of music had washed up, as had demand for those two Fender guitars. Dick Dale has never charted. The Ventures had six Top 40 hits and Wray had only two.

Dick Dale, "The King of Surf Guitar," dead at 81 01:05. Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title ...

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All I do is make the guitar scream with pain or pleasure.” So said the late Dick Dale to Guitar World 's Alan di Perna a number of years ago. The late surf guitar king was not a man of technical ...

Dick Dale, the surf rock pioneer who took guitar distortion to new levels and whose version of "Misirlou" became pop-culture shorthand, died on Saturday night.