The Blue Hawaiians from Los Angeles were there, as were Frankie & the Pool Boys from San Francisco and Fascinating Creatures of the Deep from Santa Cruz. The Black Flamingos came in from New Jersey as ...
One of the things that defined surf rocker Dick Dale’s music, career and his life was that he never held anything back. It was true of his quest for a thundering sound that could replicate the ...
When it comes to music & surfing, he may very well be America's foremost scholar. His book, The Ocean Will Have Us All: Surf ...
Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated Dick Dale's age. LOS ANGELES – Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and ...
Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81. His former ...
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Rhythm guitarist Don Wilson, co-founder of surf music staple the Ventures, has died at age 88, his family said Saturday. He passed peacefully of natural causes in the early morning with his four adult ...