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Dick Dale
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American surf rock guitarist (1937–2019)
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Dick Dale (1937–2019) was an American musician whose career began in 1959. He is associated with the genres of surf rock, instrumental, rock, and classic rock. His musical output includes works such as *Best of Surf Guitar*, *The Best of Dick Dale*, *Gay on the range*, *Gay paragon*, and *Price of pansies*.
Dale’s music has been streamed millions of times, with a total playcount of 4,447,868 and 520,158 listeners. He is referenced in 356 other encyclopedia articles. His official website is dickdale.com.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Best of Surf Guitar
- The Best of Dick Dale
- Gay on the range
- Gay paragon
- Price of pansies
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 520,158
- Total plays
- 4,447,868
Tags
Dick Dale (born Richard Anthony Monsour on 4 May 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts; died 16 March 2019) was an American rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. Dale is revered as one of the pioneers of surf rock and one of the most influential guitarists of the early 1960s. His technique influenced future guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom-made Fender amplifiers. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dick+Dale">R
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,119x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,171x
- An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest
· 2006 · cited 12,997x
- Molecular portraits of human breast tumours
· 2000 · cited 12,717x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Also known as
- The King of the Surf Guitar
- Born
- Richard Anthony Monsour , ( 1937-05-04 ) May 4, 1937, Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
- Died
- March 16, 2019 (2019-03-16) (aged 81), Loma Linda , California, U.S.
- Genres
- Surf rockabilly proto-punk proto-metal instrumental rock rock and roll
- Occupation
- Musician
- Instrument
- Guitar
- Years active
- 1955–2019
- Labels
- Capitol GNP Crescendo Deltone
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
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 experimenting with reverb. Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar," which was also the title of his second studio album.
Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s. Most of the leading bands in surf music, such as the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and the Trashmen, were influenced by Dale's music, and often included recordings of Dale's songs in their albums. His style and music influenced guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen and Brian May.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dick Dale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.