LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Misirlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin'” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81 ...

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Dick Dale, a groundbreaking '60s musician known as the "King of the Surf Guitar," who later experienced resurgent success with his signature song's presence in an iconic Quentin Tarantino flick, has ...

Pioneering musician was known for 1962 hit Misirlou, the theme from Pulp Fiction Dick Dale: the surf guitar king whose wave kept on rolling The guitarist Dick Dale, the pioneer of surf rock known for ...

This coming Monday, March 16, is the one-year anniversary of "Misirlou" icon Dick Dale's death, so Sean Williamson and his project Velocihamster will honor the musician by releasing his version of the ...

Dale told Fresh Air in 1993 that his distinctive guitar style came, in part, from the ocean waves he surfed: "The waves did create my feelings of that sound." Dale died March 16. DICK DALE: Guitar ...

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‘There was a tremendous amount of power I felt while surfing: the feeling was simply transferred to my guitar’ (Alamy) Even the grandiose title King of the Surf Guitar did scant justice to the ...

The tune "Misirlou" has traveled quite a path, from klezmer music to 1950s exotica acts and finally to surf guitar and an appearance in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Many of you heard it again in a Jan.