Dick Dale plays The Stephen Talkhouse

Guitar Legend”/“Rock Guitar” Dick Dale was an avid surfer in the day and was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1937, moved to California 1954 with his parents and great expectations for a bright future.

As a kid he had taught himself to play the drums listening to Gene Krupa. Dale bought his first ukulele, being left handed and drumming to the beat of Gene Krupa he began strumming left-handed upside down and backwards to a Gene Krupa beat. Dale also loved the genius and playing of Les Paul and the vocals of Mary Ford. Dale also became excited watching his uncle playing the legendary song Misirlou on an Oud instrument.

Dale then learned to play Misirlou on his guitar. He pioneered an entire genre of American music with his unique style of staccato picking and reverb-drenched sound, which earned him the title as “King of the Surf Guitar” by his surfer buddies. “Dick Dale and the Del-Tones” Re-opened the Famed Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa California and became the star attraction playing nightly to thousands of screaming teenagers.

Dick Dale served as co-designer to Leo Fender and helped create and build the super-powered electronics and equipment that would revolutionize musical instruments and the live and recorded sounds in the 50’s & 60’s. Over a vast career of 50 years, he has received an extensive number of Lifetime awards and nominated for a Grammy for the music in “Back To The Beach”.

He’s been inducted into the Surfing Hall of Fame in San Diego, Hollywood Rock of Fame, White House Congressional Hall of Records, and First Presidential Historical Society as a Lifetime Member and voted by over 100,000 members of his peers into Nashville’s Musicians Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Museum.