It: R.I.P. Dick Dale

[Bruce K]

King of the Surf Guitar

BK

[fiamme red]

R.I.P. This recording was just posted on one of my favorite YouTube channels a little over a week ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kARv4j_QTw4.

[rustychisel]

Amazing.

Amazing man, amazing style, amazing schtick. I met him a couple of times, interviewed him once.

You only had to interview Dick once to get the whole complete Dick Dale story, told mostly in the third person. I asked one question and sat back and let the tape roll for 45 minutes.

Vale

[witcombusa]

Saw him last year @ the Iron Horse in Northampton, Ma. Even at his age it was a great show. He had a lot to do with Fender amp and guitars growing into what they became. Sorry to hear he's gone... the sound will live on!

[KJMUNC]

Sad to hear.....a true original who kept playing the way he wanted to and didn't conform to what the suits wanted just to make money.

[cmg]

r.i.p. i got lucky and saw him play a few times. amazing, sad...

[el cheapo]

During the Academy Awards show in 1994 he put on an awesome display of his talents doing Miserlou live. Every time I see Pulp Fiction I think about that performance. Hard to believe that song was released in 1963.

[benb]

I saw something about this a day or two ago which was then dismissed as a hoax... still not sure.

Kind of funny seeing news articles talking about his "rapid alternating picking style" and not calling it tremolo picking.

[redir]

Yup a truly unique pioneer on the electric guitar that's for sure. RIP Mr. Dale.

[Climb01742]

This was him at 60. Sweet mother of god. May we all shred what we do at 60 the way Dick shredded this at 60.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UmmbF1Zyvk

[Mr. Pink]

Saw him here a year and a half ago. True master.

https://www.facebook.com/790398604359483/posts/2256662717733057/

[Keith A]

You can't surf and not love Dick Dale...another great one is gone.

[Spaghetti Legs]

If you look closely he is playing left handed guitar but it’s strung like an upside down right handed. I read he learned, first playing on an upside down right handed guitar and never really “unlearned” it. I’m sure that has a lot to do with his signature sound.