His style is something different and unique. Since his first appearances Balboa, Ca. at the famed Rendezvous Ballroom, he has set and broken attendance records everywhere he's performed. His appearances at the Rendezvous Ballroom broke every existing record for the Ballroom by drawing capacity crowds of over four thousand screaming dancing fans every weekend each night down on the Balboa peninsula.
Surf rock guitarist Dick Dale was born as Richard Monsour on 4 May, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA but relocated to Southern California in the late '50s, where he began fronting a band called the Deltones, considered the first surf rock group.
During the mid-'60s Dale developed intestinal cancer and was forced to undergo extensive surgery, ending his musical career; though he retained a cult following, few remembered Dick Dale and the Deltones.
In the late 1980s Dale attempted a comeback, performing "Pipeline"with guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan in the movie Back to the Beach, buthe remained as obscure as ever until 1994, when his 1962 hit "Miserlou" was featuredin the film Pulp Fiction and its hit soundtrack.
In the 1950's Dick Dale was given the title "King of the Surf Guitar" by his fellow surfers with whom he surfed with from sun-up to sun-down. He met Leo Fender the guitar and amplifier Guru and Leo asked Dale to play his newly creation, the Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar.
