This introduction to surf guitar will teach you the basics of the style popularized by Dick Dale, The Surfaris and The Ventures ...

Musician Dick Dale, whose staccato, reverb-heavy guitar style defined surf rock, has died at the age of 81, according to Variety. Dale, who was born Richard Monsour, was one of the very few ...

Dick Dale, who was best known for his unmistakable pioneering surf-guitar sound and staccato technique, has died at the age of 81 from various health complications. Dale's bassist, Sam Bolle ...

The King of the Surf Guitar died Saturday night. Dick Dale liked to say it was he who invented surf music. Some critics have said he was right.

Musician Dick Dale, who helped pioneer the genre of surf music and battled health problems for decades, died Saturday at age 81.

Surf guitar legend Dick Dale, whose song "Misirlou" gained fame in director Quentin Tarantino's “Pulp Fiction,” died on Saturday night. He was 81.

Dick Dale, King of Surf Guitar, Is Dead at 81 Dale said he developed the style by trying to merge the sounds of crashing ocean waves with rockabilly melodies.

Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81. His former ...

Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died.

Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.

That guitar tone arrived via a blindingly fast picking technique, one of the centerpiece elements of his breakthrough hits “Let’s Go Trippin’” in 1961 and “Misirlou” the following year ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Miserlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin'” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar ...