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Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar” who formulated the sound and attack of the Southern California-bred instrumental style in the early ‘60s, has died. He was 81. His bassist, Sam Bolle, ...

Dick Dale wanted to play the guitar to mimic how he felt when he went surfing. That’s how Peter Townend — as Dale was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in 2011 — described the music that was a ...

There’s no need to catch an actual wave to feel like you’re out in the California surf this month thanks to the return of a festival that celebrates beach music. The 15th annual Surf Guitar 101 ...

The Surfrajettes find audiences wherever they go, even when the gig is nowhere near a beach. “And if there’s a guitar community, they come out,” Surfrajette Shermy Freeman said. “Guitars and surf ...

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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