Dick Dale invented surf guitar: staccato bursts of loud, clean twang over explosive rhythms. After wowing the bronzed kids at dances in Southern California and issuing wild seven-inch rides like “Let’s Go Trippin”, Dale put out the 1962 milestone, Surfers Choice, a mix of studio and live tapes. This reissue has extra “61-63″ singles like the frantic “Miserlou”, wich you all know from the opening credits of Pulp Fiction.

Dick Dale invented surf music in the 1950’s. Not the ’60’s as is commonly believed. He was given the title “King of the Surf Guitar” by his fellow surfers with whom he surfed with from sun-up to sun-down. He met Leo Fender the guitar and amplifier Guru and Leo asked Dale to play his newly creation, the Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar. The minute Dale picked up the guitar, Leo Fender broke into uncontrolled laughter and disbelief, he was watching Dale play a right handed guitar upside down and backwards, Dale was playing a right handed guitar left handed and changing the chords in his head then transposing the chords to his hands to create a sound never heard before.

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