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Dick Dale's Biography

 

GUITAR LEGEND DICK DALE IS THE Creator and Pioneer and the FIRST TO CREATE AND PIONEER HIS OWN GENRE OF MUSIC IN 1955.

DD Career MARKED 65+ YEARS in the Business.

Creator and Pioneer along with like second father Leo Fender of Fender Equipment in the 1950s+1960s.

DICK DALE IS LOVED ALL OVER THE WORLD !

Dick Dale was honored in Jan. 2020 by millions all over the world on the Oscars academy awards website as Dick Dale’s wife Lana Dale and the Academy Awards worked closely regarding Dick Dale’s being Honored.

Dick Dale was honored by the Grammy’s which aired in Jan. 2020 as  shown below…


 

“I was splitting the atom in the beginning of amplification … with Leo Fender. I’m the “Father of Loud,” before heavy metal. … I’m the guy, along with Leo, who created the big 15-inch Lansing speakers with the big 100-watt transformers. … And hopefully they see me as a person who is like them. That’s the reason why I sign autographs at the end of the night. I don’t just play and leave. I stay until everybody leaves. I’m signing and I’m talking with families, and I’m talking to people with diseases. I make them laugh about it. I talk to little kids who come up to me. And I tell them to drink water and give their body a bath inside, to stay away from the soda pops and all that stuff. … I tell people, “Go home and hug your mother and father … Tell them how much you love them. … The point is to get children today to give the love to their parents that their parents gave to them. The parents sacrificed, and the kids take it for granted. I try to get that message out to them, because if they like my music they might listen to what I say.”,    Dick Dale

 

Dick Dale received the Kenpo Karate Hall Of Fame Award on November 4th, 2017 for his major contribution to this craft and Ed Parker who taught Dick Dale Kenpo Karate.  


DICK WAS AWARDED THE JASON BECKER AWARD…SECOND IN LINE TO GET IT AFTER JASON BECKER FOR Creativity, Courage, and Inspiration….AWARD FOR GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE AS WELL  


DICK DALE WAS AWARDED THE TRIPPLE PLATINUM FOR HIS VERSION OF MISIRLOU -PULP FICTION AND FOR PUMP IT BLACK EYED PEAS  


ALSO PART OF THE QUINCY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN QUINCY, MA.  


DICK WAS AWARDED THE ATFL GALA AWARD BY CONGRESSMAN ANTONINE CHEDID IN WASHINGTON DC ON MARCH 29TH, 2014 AS MANY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND DIGNITARIES  ATTENDING THIS GALA EVENT  


DICK WAS INDUCTED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE CONGRESSIONAL HALL OF RECORDS in between John Adams and John Quincy Adams.  


DD WAS INDUCTED INTO THE MUSICIANS HALL OF FAME MUSEUM AWARD IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE  


GUITAR PLAYER LEGEND AWARD THIRD ONLY AWARD GIVEN IN 40 YEARS….  

NOTED ON ALL HEAVY METAL GUITAR MAGAZINES IN SPAIN AS ROCK GUITAR LEGEND   


ALSO INDUCTED INTO THE WORLD FAMOUS MIM MUSEUM IN PHOENIX, AZ. AS THE DD DISPLAY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST THERE.  


INDUCTED INTO THE HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA. SURF SHOP MUSEUM   


INDUCTED INTO THE SURFERS WALK OF FAME IN HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA. IN 2011

DD ON SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF JACKS SURFSHOP  


HANDS PLACED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HANDS OF FAME SIDEWALK AT GUITAR CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD.CA  


INDUCTED INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORICAL BLDG. IN WOLLASTON, MA.  


DICK DALE CHIP PLACED INTO THE SPACE SATELLITE IN ORBIT around Mars and the Moon.  


Dick Dale and Chuck Berry both Opened and Performed the first HardRock in Dallas Texas.   


MOTION PICTURES: 

 LETS MAKE LOVE - 1958  

A SWINGIN AFFAIR - 1963  

BEACH PARTY - 1964  

MUSCLE BEACH PARTY - 1965  

BACK TO THE BEACH - 1987  

PULP FICTION - 1993  

BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD  - 1994

THE HEAVYWEIGHTS  - 1995

KID KING ARTHUR'S COURT  - 1995

SPACE JAM  - 1996

BARBED WIRE  - 1996

ESCAPE FROM LA  - 1996

PULP FICTION - 1997

LOCAL BOYS - 1997 

SPONGE BOB

 

NATIONAL COMMERCIALS TO NAME SOME:

DOMINO’S PIZZA  

SKYBLUE VODKA  

MOUNTAIN DEW  

SUPER BOWL  

FORD  

NISSAN MAXIMA  

PHILLIPS FLAT SCREEN TV  

HEINEKIN  

BARCLAY’S & JAMES  

HOLLYWOOD CIGARETTES  

VW

FOUR FLAGS AMUSEMENTS PARK  

AMAZON CABLE 

APPLE-DONKEY KONG  

VIRGIN MEDIA OUT OF IRELAND  

PLUS MORE.     


MOVIE/SPORTS AMUSEMENT PARKS:  

GRAMMY NOMINEE  

DISNEY SPACE MOUNTAIN  

WORLD OLYMPICS  

SUPER BOWL  

WORLD SERIES  

YAMAHA WORLD RACING  

COLORADO AVALANCHE … ON BACK


NATIONAL TV:   

CONAN O'BRIEN

CNN  

DAVID LETTERMAN  

ED SULLIVAN SHOW  

ESPN CLASSICS, E!

JIMMY KIMBAL  

JOOLS HOLLAND BBC  

JOHN PEEL  

KASEY KASEM SHOW  

MTV  

PBS SPECIAL  

ROSIE O DONNELL  

SPADE COOLEY SHOW  

TOWN HALL PARTY  

VH 1  

WINK MARTINDALE SHOW

90210


MOVIES/SPORTS AMUSEMENT PARKS:  

GRAMMY NOMINEE  

DISNEY SPACE MOUNTAIN  

WORLD OLYMPICS  

SUPER BOWL  

WORLD SERIES  

YAMAHA WORLD RACING  

COLORADO AVALANCHE  


CREATED 3 “ RISERS FOR APE HANGERS HANDLE BARS ON CUSTOM 1941 FLATHEAD HARLEY MOTORCYCLES


MAGAZINES: 

MANY HUNDREDS BACK IN THE DAY FROM 1950S ON UP TO PRESENT DAY AND IN PRESENT DAY 

GQ 2009 MAGAZINE  

HARLEY DAVIDSON MAGAZINE  

GUITAR CENTER  

DELUXE  

GOLDMINE  

BREVARD FLORIDA  

THE SUN RUNNER  

SESSIONS  

PISSED ON AND PISSED OFF NEWS EDITOR COLUMN  

VINTAGE GUITAR  

GUITARS BY THE SEA  

PLUS DD ALSO HAS DONE THOUSANDS OF LOCAL CITY MAGAZINES FOR ADVERTISING 

DICK COMING TO TOWN.

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Music Legend DICK DALE


PIONEER and CREATOR OF his own genre of  MUSIC SOUND in 1955

and the very first to create his genre of music.  


DICK DALE MUSIC Comes from Gene Krupa’s Jungle drum rhythms along with Wild Animal sounds and roars along  with the indigenous people dancing.  


MARKING 65 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS

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PIONEERED AND CREATED FENDER EQUIPMENT

By Dick and Leo Fender

sin the late 1950s+60s

DICK PIONEERED FENDER AMPS  

15" JBL SPEAKERS  

FENDER RHODES PIANO  

FENDER ECHO-PLEX ECHO MACHINE  

FENDER REVERB TANK  

FENDER STRATOCASTER GUITAR  

FENDER PERCISION BASS GUITAR  

FENDER 6 STRING BASS GUITAR  

FENDER ACCOUSTIC GUITAR  

FENDER CONTEMPO ORGAN  

FENDER OUTPUT TRANSFORMERS  

LEO FENDER WAS LIKE A SECOND FATHER TO DICK AND THEY SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME TOGETHER OVER THE YEARS. 


Dick Dale also pioneered the 1941 Harley Davidson Flathead Risers 

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''FLASH NOTE"

DD Festival Event Show now over with however, we sold out the first time in 2013 -30,000 people.   The second was 39,000 people on April 16th, 2016…LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

''OUTSIDE EVENT''

was on APRIL 16, 2016/Saturday

DICK DALE  was the Headliner for this CONCERT

at 5:00PM

THE VIVA LAS VEGAS

"ROCKABILLY WEEKEND

EXTRAVAGANZA"

held at 

THE ORLEANS HOTEL

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DICK DALE SOLD OUT THE ARENA IN GERMANY WITH 400,000 PEOPLE ATTENDING THE GREAT FESTIVAL EVENT AS IN SO MANY COUNTRIES THEY REQUEST DICK DALE EVENTS.  


DICK DALE IS SO LOVED IN JAPAN, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN, ENGLAND, SOUTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, HAWAII AND US! NOT LONG AGO WE WERE TOLD THE NETHERLANDS AND GREENLAND WERE CRAZY ABOUT DICK.  


DICK IS HUGELY POPULAR IN CANADA AS WELL.

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Colonel Tom Parker and Dick Dale

Additional Information

Colonel Tom Parker has known Dick Dale since the late 1950s as he wanted to manage Dick in the Day along with Elvis but had spent $88k on El. and could not afford to manage both Showman Performers.  


As the Late 1970s rolled around after Elvis Presley had passed the Col. Parker Approached DD once again as he wanted to manage Dick’s Career.


In the early 1980s during the release of Tigers Choice Album it was the Colonel Parkers idea to place the paw print of Sam the tiger on the back of the Album " Tigers Loose“. Dick Dale took his advice on doing so.

The Album was a Success.

Photo Gallery

Wife, Lana Dale requested that husband Dick Dale's major music contributions to be placed on the January 2020 Grammy Awards Show and also the Oscar/Academy Awards Show memoriam website.  

    Photo Gallery

    Dick Dale working with the employees at Fender.  

      Dick Dale in outer space

      Dick Dale in outer space

      Dick Dale in outer space

      Dick Dale in outer space

       Dick Dale's chip launched in Outer space Orbiting around The Moon and Mars by the Astronauts  

      Dick Dale in outer space

      Dick Dale in outer space

      Dick Dale in outer space

       Dick Dale's chip launched in Outer space Orbiting around The Moon and Mars by the Astronauts  

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