DICK DALE
Non-Metal / Proto-Metal • United States
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Dick Dale (born Richard Anthony Monsour on May 4, 1937) is an American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar, but was proclaimed Grandfather of Heavy Metal by Guitar Player magazine - and for good reasons.
He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier. Dale was born in South Boston, Massachusetts and lived in nearby Quincy until the eleventh grade. He is of Lebanese, Polish and Russian descent (however, his father was not born in Lebanon). He and his family moved to Orange County, California in 1954. He learned to surf and became interested in music. He soon learned to play the drums, the ukulele, the trumpet, and finally the guitar.
Among his early musical influences was his uncle, an oud player performing belly dance music. Much of his early music shows a Middle Eastern influence; Dale is
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