Dick Dale to Sign Autographs at J&R, Aug. 27th
J&R’s heavily Fender stocked Musical Instrument Store at 33 Park Row will host guitar legend, Dick Dale and his fast-picking son, Jimmy Dale, 2 pm, Thursday, August 27th.
“King of Surf Guitar“, Dick Dale will be forever remembered as the man behind the epic instrumental “Miserlou”; a pioneer with a highly percussive rhythmic style and penchant for dramatic bends and rapid-fire staccato picking using unusually heavy-gauge strings, Dale developed a unique guitar voice that launched an entire genre. Although Dale plays many instruments, he is known for a highly unusual self-taught style in which plays a right-handed Stratocaster® guitar upside down (Dale is left-handed) without restringing it accordingly (he continued to use this reverse stringing method even after acquiring a left-handed guitar).
Dale made a name for himself packing Southern California clubs and dance halls (most notably the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, Calif.) in the late ’50s with his band, the Del-Tones. He was intensely interested in achieving unheard-of guitar tones and volume that led him to push the limits of equipment available in the late 1950s. He adopted a very “wet” sounding reverb and experimented with Fender amplifiers; Dale is said to be the first guitarist to use a 100 watt guitar amp, and he was involved in the creation of the popular Fender Showman® amp.
A new generation of fans discovered Dale and his music when “Miserlou” was used as the theme for Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Fender introduced the sparkling Dick Dale Signature Stratocaster guitar in 1994.
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