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(2005)
(performing @ “the middle east restaurant + nightclub”)
(‘cambridge’ / ‘massachusetts’)
(~age 68)
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(born richard anthony monsour on ‘4 may 1937’)
(‘boston’)
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(died on ’16 march 2019′)
(‘age 81’)
(‘loma linda’ / ‘california’)
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(‘dick dale’ is an american ‘surf rock guitarist’, known as “the king of the surf guitar”)
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(he pioneered the ‘surf music’ style, drawing on ‘eastern musical scales’ + experimenting with ‘reverberation’)
(he worked closely with ‘fender’ to produce custom made amplifiers, including the first-ever ‘100-watt guitar amplifier’)
(he pushed the limits of electric amplification technology, helping to develop new equipment that was capable of producing distorted, “thick, clearly defined tones” at “previously undreamed-of volumes”)
(the “breakneck speed of his single-note staccato picking technique” and showmanship with the guitar is considered a precursor to ‘heavy metal’ music, influencing guitarists such as ‘Jimi Hendrix’ and ‘Eddie Van Halen’)
(‘dale’ was born ‘Richard Anthony Monsour’ in ‘Boston’, Massachusetts, on 4 may 1937, although many biographies of ‘Dale’ repeat his earlier assertion that he was born in Beirut, ‘lebanon’)
(he is of lebanese descent from his father and ‘polish-belarusian’ descent from his mother)
(his father was born in ‘beirut’, and his mother’s parents came to the United States from Poland; they farmed in (‘whitman’ / ‘massachusetts’))
(dale’s family moved to Quincy, Massachusetts, which had a significant Lebanese immigrant community, when ‘dale’ was very young)
(he learned to play music, starting with piano when he was 9)
(dale admired ‘Hank Williams’—he wanted to be a cowboy singer—so he bought a plastic ukulele for $6 and taught himself to play by reading an instruction book)
(the first song he played on the ukulele was “Tennessee Waltz”)
(he then learned to play guitar, using a combination style incorporating both lead and rhythm aspects, so that the guitar filled the place of drums)
(he was raised in ‘quincy’ until he completed the eleventh grade at Quincy High School in 1954, when his machinist father took a job in the Southern California aerospace industry)
(his parents drove the family across the country to live in ‘El Segundo’, ‘california’)
(‘dale’ spent his senior year at and graduated from ‘washington senior high school’)
(it was in ‘southern california’ that he learned to surf at the age of 17)
(he soon learned to play the ‘drums’ and the ‘trumpet’)
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(due to his ‘lebanese’ heritage, he also had a strong interest in ‘arabic’ music, which later played a major role in his development of ‘surf rock’ music)
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*SKETCHES*
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👈👈👈☜*“THE CALIFORNIA SOUND”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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