MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Dick Dale The self-proclaimed "King of the Surf Guitar," Dick Dale is indeed the most influential guitarist in the forty-year history of surf music. His percussive playing style, when cranked through a Fender reverb unit (which he helped invent) and a Fender Dual Showman amp (which he helped popularize), became virtually synonymous with the surf sound. In the early 1960s, Dale was the number one rock act in Southern California, regularly tearing up local ballrooms in front of thousands of screaming teens; his first album, Surfers' Choice, sold over 80,000 copies on his father's Del-Tone label, and was soon picked up and reissued by Capitol Records. Though he never made it higher than #60 on the national charts (with 1961's "Let's Go Trippin'"), Dale repeatedly topped the charts in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the rise of vocal surfing groups like the Beach Boys -- followed shortly by the British Invasion -- eclipsed the popularity of instrumental surf music, and Dale soon faded into obscurity. His legend was revived in the 1980s with the release of Rhino Records' King of the Surf Guitar compilation, and received a further boost in 1994 when Quentin Tarantino used "Misirlou" as his theme for Pulp Fiction. Dale still lives in Southern California, and still plays loud and hard enough to make a grown man faint.     Dick Dale Miserlou MP3 Rock The greatest surf instrumental of all time, featuring the finger-shredding stylings of the "King of the Surf Guitar." Hang ten, everybody!
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