Editing Dick Dale (section)

==Career==
===1960s===
Dale began playing in local country western–rockabilly bars, where in 1955 he met an entertainer who went by Texas Tiny,<!-- Hood County News from Granbury, Texas on January 21, 2003 · Page 9 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/59092543/ January 21, 2003 - ... Guy Norris Cherry's heart was bigger than his girth ... The big Tolar farm boy became "Texas Tiny" when he went to ... --><!-- https://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=seorecords&gsfn=Guy&gsln=Norris&msbdy=1914&msbpn__ftp=&msddy=&msdpn__ftp=&cpxt=0&catBucket=p&uidh=000&cp=0 --><!-- http://www.45cat.com/record/ht176 --><!-- http://oldwax.blogspot.com/2012/11/aint-that-just-like-man.html --> who gave him the name "Dick Dale" because he thought it was a good name for a country singer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trustmeimascientist.com/2012/12/03/pipeline-surf-musics-rocky-rise-untimely-death-and-unlikely-return/|title=PIPELINE: Surf Music's Rocky Rise, Untimely Death, and Unlikely Return|website=Trustmeimascientist.com|access-date=May 28, 2018|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417235609/http://www.trustmeimascientist.com/2012/12/03/pipeline-surf-musics-rocky-rise-untimely-death-and-unlikely-return/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://savingcountrymusic.com/king-of-the-surf-guitar-dick-dale-has-died/ |title=“King of the Surf Guitar” Dick Dale has Died |date=17 March 2019 |website=Saving Country Music |access-date=17 April 2025}}</ref>

[[File:Fender Showman Ampi, MIM PHX.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Fender Showman, owned by Dick Dale]]
Dale employed non-Western [[Scale (music)|scales]] in his playing. He regularly used [[reverb effect|reverb]], which became a trademark of surf guitar. Being lefthanded, Dale would become known for his unorthodox method of playing a right-handed guitar upside-down, doing so (like [[Albert King]]) without restringing the guitar (while Hendrix, by comparison, would restring his guitar). Even after he acquired a proper left-handed guitar, Dale continued to use his reverse stringing.<ref name="last_fm">{{cite web |url=http://www.last.fm/music/Dick+Dale |title=Dick Dale |publisher=Last.fm |date=February 11, 2009 |access-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407225406/https://www.last.fm/music/Dick+Dale |url-status=live }}</ref> He often played by reaching over the fretboard, rather than wrapping his fingers up from underneath.

He partnered with [[Leo Fender]] to test new equipment. In interviews Dale noted that Fender had stated, "When it can withstand the barrage of punishment from Dick Dale, then it is fit for the human consumption." His combination of loud amplifiers and heavy-gauge strings led him to be called the "Father of Heavy Metal".<ref name="auto1" /> After Dale blew up several Fender amplifiers, Leo Fender and [[Freddie Tavares]] saw Dale play at the [[Rendezvous Ballroom]], [[Balboa, California]], and found the problem arose from his creating a sound louder than the audience's screaming. The pair visited the [[James B. Lansing]] loudspeaker company and asked for a custom 15-inch loudspeaker, which became the [[JBL (company)|JBL]] D130F model, and was known as the Single Showman Amp. Dale's combination of a [[Fender Stratocaster]] with a Fender Showman Amp allowed him to attain significantly louder volume levels unobtainable by then-conventional equipment.<ref name="official">{{cite web |url=http://www.dickdale.com |title=Official website |publisher=Dickdale.com |access-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-date=May 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517050026/http://www.dickdale.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Furthering the development, the Showman Amp later added a second 15-inch JBL D-130 speaker, and it was named the Dual Showman Amp.

Dale's performances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa in mid to late 1961 are credited with the creation of the surf music phenomenon. Dale obtained permission to use the 3,000 person capacity ballroom for surfer dances after overcrowding at a local [[ice cream parlor]] where he performed made him seek other venues.<ref name="surfingmuseum-rendezvous">{{cite web|title=Rendezvous Ballroom|url=http://www.surfingmuseum.org/exhibit/reunion/rendezvous.html|publisher=[[International Surfing Museum|Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum]]|access-date=February 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719182831/http://www.surfingmuseum.org/exhibit/reunion/rendezvous.html|archive-date=July 19, 2011}}</ref> The Rendezvous ownership and the city of [[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]] agreed to Dale's request on the condition that he prohibit alcohol sales and implement a [[dress code]]. Dale's events at the ballrooms, called "stomps", quickly became legendary, and the events routinely sold out.<ref name="surfingmuseum-rendezvous" />

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"[[Let's Go Trippin']]" is one of the first surf rock songs.<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite book|last=Marsh|first=Dave|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|year=2004|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-7432-0169-8|url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac|url-access=registration|quote=Let's Go Trippin'.|editor=Brackett, Nathan |editor2=Hoard, Christian|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/208 208]}}</ref> This was followed by more locally released songs, including "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|Miserlou]]". He later stated, "I still remember the first night we played it ("Misirlou"). I changed the tempo, and just started ''cranking'' on that mother. And&nbsp;... it was eerie. The people came rising up off the floor, and they were chanting and stomping. I guess that was the beginning of the surfer's stomp."<ref>"Washed out for a decade, surf's up again", ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', February 1, 1981.</ref> His second album was named after his performing nickname, "King of the Surf Guitar".<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r223252|first=Mark|last=Deming}}</ref>

Dale later said "There was a tremendous amount of power I felt while surfing and that feeling of power was simply transferred into my guitar". His playing style reflected the experience he had when surfing, which he tried to project to his audience.<ref>David P. Szatmary, Rockin' in Time, 8th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2014), p. 73.</ref>

Dale and the Del-Tones performed both sides of his Capitol single "Secret Surfin' Spot" in the 1963 movie ''[[Beach Party]]'', starring [[Frankie Avalon]] and [[Annette Funicello]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jambase.com/article/dick-dale-surf-guitar-death|title=Guitarist Dick Dale 1937 – 2019|work=Jambase|date=March 18, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=July 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715024641/https://www.jambase.com/article/dick-dale-surf-guitar-death|url-status=live}}</ref> The group performed the songs "My First Love", "Runnin' Wild" and "Muscle Beach" in the 1964 film ''[[Muscle Beach Party]]''.<ref name=grauniad/>

===Later career===
Surf rock's national popularity was somewhat brief, as the [[British Invasion]] began to overtake the American charts in 1964. Though he continued performing live, Dale developed [[colorectal cancer]].<ref name=grauniad/> In the liner notes of ''Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology'', Dale quoted [[Jimi Hendrix]] saying: "Then you'll never hear surf music again" in response to hearing he might be terminally ill. Dale covered "[[Third Stone from the Sun]]" as a tribute to Hendrix.<ref>Dick Dale, ''Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology'' (Rhino Records, 1997), liner notes to Disc 2, Track 12.</ref> Though he recovered, he retired from music for several years. In 1979, he almost lost a leg after a pollution-related infection of a mild swimming injury. As a result, Dale became an [[Environmental movement|environmental activist]] and soon began performing again. 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 (instrumental)|Pipeline]]" with [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]].<ref name=grauniad>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/18/dick-dale-obituary|title=Dick Dale Obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|date=March 18, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=September 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230916054001/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/18/dick-dale-obituary|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1993, he recorded a guitar solo for the track "Should Have Known" released as a vinyl single by the Southern California [[indie band]], The Pagodas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4009354-The-Pagodas-Should-Have-Known/|title=Pagodas 7" single "Should Have Known (featuring Dick Dale)" on Discogs|website=[[Discogs]]|access-date=2023-10-10|archive-date=October 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024071410/https://www.discogs.com/release/4009354-The-Pagodas-Should-Have-Known/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The use of "[[Misirlou|Miserlou]]" in the 1994 [[Quentin Tarantino]] film ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' gained him a new audience. The following year, [[John Peel]] praised his playing following a gig in the Garage, London.<ref name="Snapes"/> Peel later selected "[[Let's Go Trippin']]" as the theme tune for his [[BBC Radio 4]] series ''[[Home Truths]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/artists/d/dickdale/|title=Dick Dale|publisher=BBC Radio 1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305040441/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/artists/d/dickdale/ |archive-date=March 5, 2015}} ([[BBC Radio 1]] John Peel minisite)</ref> The same year, 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 (Disneyland)|Space Mountain]] at [[Disneyland]] in [[Anaheim, California]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wdwinfo.com/news-stories/dick-dale-guitarist-on-the-1996-soundtrack-for-disneylands-space-mountain-dies-at-81/|title=Dick Dale, Guitarist on the 1996 Soundtrack for Disneyland's Space Mountain, Dies at 81|work=WDW Info|date=March 18, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=April 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416155640/https://www.wdwinfo.com/news-stories/dick-dale-guitarist-on-the-1996-soundtrack-for-disneylands-space-mountain-dies-at-81/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dale was inducted to the Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame in 1996. In 2000 the U.S. House of Representatives elected Dale into the Library of Congress Hall of Records for outstanding achievements in music.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dick Dale "2011 Surf Culture"|url=https://surfingwalkoffame.com/dick-dale/|website=Surfingwalkoffame.com|date=September 2017|access-date=July 22, 2020|archive-date=July 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715024631/https://surfingwalkoffame.com/dick-dale/|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2005, [[Q magazine|''Q'' magazine]] placed Dale's version at number 89 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120629012641/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm%23The%20Music%20That%20Changed%20The%20World rocklistmusic.co.uk/]}} ''[[Q magazine|Q Magazine]] - 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever!''</ref>

In 2009, Dale was inducted into the [[Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1623747/rascal-flatts-perform-with-toto-during-musicians-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031031730/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1623747/rascal-flatts-perform-with-toto-during-musicians-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony.jhtml|url-status=dead|title=Rascal Flatts Perform With Toto During Musicians Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony|first=Calvin|last=Gilbert October 13, 2009|archive-date=October 31, 2014|publisher=CMT News}}</ref> Dale is also a 2011 inductee into the Surfing Walk of Fame in [[Huntington Beach, California]], in the Surf Culture category.<ref>{{cite news|last=Carroll|first=Corky|title=Walk of Fame inductee list one of the best ever|newspaper=[[Orange County Register]]|date=June 9, 2011|author-link=Corky Carroll}}</ref>[[File:Dick Dale @ The Tractor Tavern 9-11-2006 (2366673198).jpg|thumb|left|Dale performing in 2006]]

In June 2009, 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, Jimmie Dale on drums, who opened for him. He was scheduled to play the Australian One Great Night On Earth festival to raise funds to benefit those affected by the [[Black Saturday bushfires]] and other natural disasters.<ref>{{cite web |title=All hail the great Dick Dale! |url=http://onegreatnightonearth.com.au/breaking-news/all-hail-the-great-dick-dale |publisher=OneGreatNightOnEarth.com.au |access-date=December 15, 2011 |date=May 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826032117/http://onegreatnightonearth.com.au/breaking-news/all-hail-the-great-dick-dale |archive-date=August 26, 2011 }}</ref>

Dale said that he was forced to keep touring to the end of his life, because of his inability to afford his medical costs.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.dickdale.com/dates.html|title=Concert Dates & Diaries|website=The Official Dick Dale Homepage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318051827/http://www.dickdale.com/dates.html|archive-date=March 18, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/at-78-and-with-a-myriad-of-health-issues-surf-rock-legend-dick-dale-plays-through-the-pain/Content?oid%3D1843341|title=At 78 and with myriad health issues, surf-rock legend Dick Dale plays through the pain|last=Deitch|first=Charlie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317055925/http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/at-78-and-with-a-myriad-of-health-issues-surf-rock-legend-dick-dale-plays-through-the-pain/Content?oid=1843341|archive-date=March 17, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=May 23, 2015}}</ref>  He had many health issues, including diabetes, [[kidney failure]], and vertebrae damage that made performing excruciatingly painful.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/18/i-have-perform-save-my-life-medical-bills-kept-rock-legend-dick-dale-touring-till-end/|title='I have to perform to save my life': Medical bills kept rock legend Dick Dale touring till the end|last=Swenson|first=Kyle|date=March 18, 2019|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=June 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615172628/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/18/i-have-perform-save-my-life-medical-bills-kept-rock-legend-dick-dale-touring-till-end/|url-status=live}}</ref> At the time of his death, Dale had tour dates scheduled into November 2019.<ref name=":0" />