I was not familiar with Dick Dale, so I looked him up on youtube.

[LuckyCharms]

I ended up watching this entire video.

Dick Dale was 81 years old at the time of this recording in 2018. Damn. This guy was amazing. RIP, Mr. Dale.

Thanks to DUer Demovictory9 for calling my attention to this artist.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211930475

[Javaman]

1. one of my favorite Dick Dale songs...

[LuckyCharms]

3. Thanks! I know that song...

I would imagine I've heard a lot of his songs without knowing who performed them.

[frogmarch]

2. Thank you

I hadn't heard of this Dick Dale before. The only Dick Dale I knew of was a performer on the Lawrence Welk show.

Now I'll play the You Tube video you posted. Thanks!

[LuckyCharms]

5. You're welcome. I was expecting to watch about 2 minutes of it...

but I just sat here watching it throughout.

[panader0]

4. When I was young, and lived on Hickam AFB on Oahu,

we would sneak some of our parents booze and go to the teen club on base.
None of the songs had lyrics. Misirlou was a popular tune.

[LuckyCharms]

6. Wow thank you. Another one I've heard many times without realizing. n/t

[LongtimeAZDem]

7. Nitro

[LuckyCharms]

8. I'm hearing some Link Wray in his guitar sound.

I wonder if there were mutual influences going on between the two men.

[zentrum]

11. You bet. I think

.....Wray was the basis of Dean's sound.

Try to see the great documentary about Wray and the influence of Native American music on rock and roll--incuding Hendrix, if I remember. It been a few years since I viewed it.

[yonder]

15. I recently caught that documentary. It was excellent all around.

[maryellen99]

9. His song Misirlou was used for the opening credits of Pulp Fiction nt

[LuckyCharms]

10. .

[CaptainTruth]

12. If you like Dick Dale, check out some friends of mine from SF, The Mermen.

They have a bunch of music on YouTube.

[kimbutgar]

13. Ironic his last name is Mansour and he is of Lebanese descent

The rifts in his music are of middle eastern origins. This fact should make the white right anti immigrant heads explode!

[chwaliszewski]

14. A few facts about Dick Dale...

If you look close, you'll notice that he is a left-handed player that uses a left-handed guitar that is strung for a right-handed player. For any guitar players out there, he also uses huge gauge strings. I'm a player myself and I have 10s on my Strat. (the 10 designates the gauge (diameter) of the smallest string, the high E) Dick used 16s for his, which are quite thick.

He is also known for getting Leo Fender to build bigger amplifiers as he kept blowing them up. Check out his page, it's good stuff to read.

http://www.dickdale.com/history.html

[yonder]

16. Wasn't Misirlou one of the 1st tunes any budding young guitarist had to learn way back then?

It was for me, along with Louie, Louie; House of the Rising Sun; etc. I had no idea Mr. Dale was a lefty.

Here's another Misirlou played by a Greek band in 1927:

[WillowTree]

17. The King of Surf Guitar. Rest in peace, Mr. Dale.

[area51]

18. Dick Dale had to keep performing in order to stay alive, due to healthcare costs in the US

(WaPo) https://t.co/luemnavm4W

“I have to raise $3,000 every month to pay for the medical supplies I need to stay alive, and that’s on top of the insurance that I pay for,” Dale told the Pittsburgh City Paper.