When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Guitar Tricks Surf guitar is iconic. The moment you hear a tremolo-picking slide you can ...

The terminology is consistent with a type of stylish but varied instrumental garage rock bent that has been called surf guitar, hot rod, biker rock and so on. Locked into a time (mostly the '60s) and ...

In Pound For The Sound, Phoenix New Times get technical with local musicians about what gear they use to create their signature tones. Trey Rhodes, Surfside IV guitarist and founding member, once hung ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a guy whose forte was guitar instrumentals, Dick Dale had a way with words. “I’ve been performing since 1955 . . . and I’m going to keep performing until I die because I’m not ...

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 ...

Dale told Fresh Air in 1993 that his distinctive guitar style came, in part, from the ocean waves he surfed: "The waves did create my feelings of that sound." Dale died March 16. DICK DALE: Guitar ...

The 007 theme is one of the most famous themes in movie history. The infamous guitar riff that gives the theme its secret agent feel was performed by Vic Flick, who spoke to Morning Edition about the ...

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, ...

Guitarist Dick Dale, whose fast, thunderous sound pioneered the California “surf rock” genre of the early 1960s and gained a new generation of fans decades later through its appearance in “Pulp ...

Richard Monsour may have grown up in snowy Massachusetts, but the guitarist known as Dick Dale brought the rock music of California’s surf culture to the nation. Known as the “King of Surf Guitar,” ...