Dick Dale
Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.
I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.
For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you start to strum, and then all of a sudden you get a charley horse in your back. The older you get, the greater the charley horse.
When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'
The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'
I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.Collection: Eye
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.Collection: Attitude