Dick Dale

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Dick Dale (2005)

Dick Dale (born May 4, 1937 in Boston , Massachusetts , United States - † March 16, 2019 in Loma Linda , Southern California , United States; actually Richard Anthony Monsour ) was an American musician and pioneer of surf music . Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of the early 1960s. Together with Link Wray , he is considered to be a style-maker for guitarists like Jimi Hendrix , Pete Townshend and Eddie Van Halen . He used specially-made Fender guitars and - amplifier and experimented with reverberation -Effekten (Reverb) .

Career

Dick Dale was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Lebanese and a Polish woman . Soon he learned drums , then ukulele and finally guitar. As a child, he was musically influenced by his uncle, an oud player. His early music shows strong influences from oriental music.

With his band, the Del-Tones, Dale was quite successful at the local level in the early 1960s. In addition to the single Mr. Moto the Belairs applies Dales piece Let's Go Trippin ' of 1961 as the style for the surf-rock scene. Before he switched to Capitol Records in 1962 , he brought out a few singles on his own label Deltone, but they did not make the breakthrough he had hoped for.

In 1962, Dale made his breakthrough with the album Surfers' Choice . He was invited to the Ed Sullivan Show and appeared in Hollywood films (e.g. Beach Party , 1963). Dale was a national star until 1964, but then the success of his instrumental music ebbed. British bands like the Beatles dominated the charts. In addition, Dale was in poor health from cancer and withdrew from the public for a long time.

In 1979 he began to campaign for nature conservation . He sustained a minor injury while swimming, and the pollution from the water made it so bad that he almost lost a leg.

In 1986 he recorded a new album and was nominated for a Grammy Award . Since then he has released albums again. By using his most successful title Misirlou (an interpretation of a well-known Greek song from the 1920s) in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction , Dale became well known to a younger audience again since the 1990s.

In 2008, Dale developed colon cancer and had to undergo an operation. In 2010 he was able to start a tour through the USA and Europe again.

technology

Dale was a very expressive guitarist. He always claimed not to be a good guitarist in the classical sense. With his experimental playing technique he developed his very own, unmistakable sound.

Dale's trademark is the fast staccato attack of the guitar strings (for example with Misirlou ). He also popularized the excessive use of reverb in instrumental surf music . Due to his not outstanding singing voice, Dale asked his friend Leo Fender to develop a device for him with which it was possible to put a reverb on the voice like a Hammond organ . The engineers at Fender's production facility converted the corresponding part of a Hammond organ so that a microphone could be connected. The adventurous Dick Dale also connected the guitar to the device and was enthusiastic about the dense sound. This device can still be purchased today as the “Fender Reverb Unit”.

Dick Dale played with extremely thick strings (.016 – .060) through a modified "Fender Showman" amplifier at very high volume. As a left-handed player, he played a left-handed guitar with the strings drawn upside down. This affected the sound of his playing in a way that could hardly be imitated.

Dale lovingly called his Fender Stratocaster "the Beast" and kept it until his death.

Others

  • After his success with teenage beach films , Dale lived in a large mansion with lions and tigers.
  • The first version of his greatest hit Misirlou was recorded without the reverb effect.
  • Dick Dale emphasized again and again that you shouldn't work with record companies, but distribute your music yourself and keep your rights, otherwise you would be exploited. That's how he does it too.
  • Dale was involved in the development of the “Fender Reverb Unit”, the “Fender Showman” amplifier, the Fender Stratocaster guitar and the JBL -D130F loudspeaker.
  • Dick Dale is considered the father of heavy metal because of his wild, loud playing technique .
  • As a child he was impressed by the jazz drummer Gene Krupa , whose rhythms he wanted to imitate on the guitar.
  • Dale bears the unofficial title "King of the Surf Guitar". Later, however, he no longer wanted to be called that.
  • In 2011 Rolling Stone listed him 74th of the 100 best guitarists of all time . In a list from 2003 he was ranked 31st.

Discography

Dick Dale & The Del-Tones singles

  • 1959 Oh-Whee Marie / Breaking Heart
  • 1959 Stop Teasin '/ Without Your Love
  • 1960 Jessie Pearl / St. Louis Blues
  • 1961 Oh-Whee Marie / Without Your Love
  • 1961 Let's Go Trippin '/ Del-Tone Rock
  • 1962 Jungle Fever / Shake 'n' Stomp
  • 1962 Misirlou / Eight Til Midnight
  • 1962 Surf Beat / Mr. Peppermint Man
  • 1963 A Run for Life / Lovin 'on my Brain
  • 1963 Misirlou / Eight 'Til Midnight
  • 1963 Surf Beat / Mr. Peppermint Man
  • 1963 King of the Surf Guitar / Hava Nagila
  • 1963 Secret Surfin 'Spot / Surfin' and A-Swinging
  • 1963 Wild Ideas / Scavenger
  • 1963 The Wedge / Nightrider
  • 1963 Secret Surfin Spot / Surfin 'and Swingin'
  • 1964 Mr. Eliminator / The Victor
  • 1964 Wild Mustang / Grudge Run
  • 1964 Glory Wave / Never on Sunday
  • 1964 Who Can He Be / Oh Marie
  • 1965 Let's Go Trippin '' '65 / Watusi Jo

Dick Dale & The Del-Tones albums

  • 1962 Surfers' Choice
  • 1963 King of the Surf Guitar
  • 1963 Checkered Flag
  • 1964 Mr. Eliminator
  • 1964 Summer Surf
  • 1965 Rock out with Dick Dale and his Del-Tones: Live at Ciro’s

Dick Dale albums

  • 1986 The Tigers Loose
  • 1993 Tribal Thunder
  • 1994 Unknown Territory
  • 1996 Calling Up Spirits
  • 2001 Spacial Disorientation

Compilations

  • 1963 Hot Rod Music on Capitol
  • 1964 The Big Surfin 'Sounds on Capitol
  • 1982 The History of Surf Music: Original Instrumentals Hits 1961–1963
  • 1982 bustin 'surfboards
  • 1986 King of the Surf Guitar - The Best of Dick Dale & The Del-Tones
  • 1986 One Double One Oh !!
  • 1987 pipeline
  • 1989 Surfer's Mood
  • 1989 surf hits
  • 1990 rarities
  • 1990 Surfers' Guitar
  • 1990 Draggin 'and Surfin'
  • 1991 Axes & Saxes - The Great Instrumentals
  • 1992 Dick Dale's Greatest Hits 1961-1976
  • 1994 Pulp Fiction
  • 1995 Pulp Rock Instros - Vol. 1
  • 1996 Cowabunga! Surf box
  • 1996 Better Shred Than Dead - The Dick Dale Anthology
  • 1997 Music for our Mother Ocean
  • 1997 The Singles and Other Great Stuff
  • 1997 Attack of the New Killer Surf Guitars
  • 1997 The World Of Surf Music
  • 1997 Kahuna Classics
  • 1998 Surf! Sand! Sun!
  • 1998 Hard Rock Records - Surf
  • 2001 Greemie's Ghouly Surf Hits
  • 2003 25 rockin 'instrumentals
  • 2004 (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  • 2004 Surfin 'and A-Swingin'
  • 2005 Rare Instrumentals - Vol. 04

Band members

Founding members of the Del-Tones

The Del-Tones were founded in 1961.

Later members of the Del-Tones

  • Ed Quarry - piano
  • Barry Rillera - saxophone
  • Hal Blaine - drums
  • Glen Campbell - guitar
  • Leon Russell - piano
  • Art Munson - guitar
  • Drew Johnson - drums
  • Jack Lake - drums
  • Lee Farell - saxophone
  • Steve Douglas - saxophone
  • Larry Gillette - saxophone
  • Dusty Watson - drums

Today's band

  • Sam Bolle - bass
  • Dusty Watson - drums

literature

  • John Blair (Ed.): The Illustrated Discography of Surf Music. 1961-1965 . J. Bee Productions, Riverside CA 1978, ISBN 0-9601880-0-2 .
  • Robert J. Dalley: Surfin 'Guitars. Instrumental Surf Bands of the Sixties . Surf Publications for RJ Dalley, Azusa CA 1988.
  • Stephen J. McParland: Surfbeat - The Dick Dale Story: From Deltone to Hightone and Beyond. CMusic, Australia, ISBN 0-9592005-5-X .

Web links

Commons : Dick Dale  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emily S. Rueb, Jon Pareles: Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar, Is Dead at 81. In: The New York Times , March 17, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c DickDale.com: Dick Dale's History
  3. ↑ Dick Dale Interview
  4. ↑ http://www.surfguitar101.com/
  5. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 18, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - David Fricke's Picks. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dale, Dick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monsour, Richard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, pioneer of surf rock
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts, United States
DATE OF DEATH 16th March 2019
Place of death Loma Linda