Orange County's Endless Summer Podcast: Dick Dale

Dick Dale's influence on Music and Orange County's Endless Summer Surf Culture

Legendary guitar slinger Dick Dale spends much of his escapist time aboard his yacht in Southern California's Newport Beach, not far from the Rendezvous Ballroom where the "King of the Surf Guitar" first made waves in the music world. Dick Dale's sound has come to capture the essence of the Orange County endless summer lifestyle. The pent up engergy Dale released with his guitar crashed down upon SoCal like a giant wave. It's power, beauty and influence, not to be denied, became the soundtrack of a surf movement and pop culture phenomenon. After a dazzling, informative and varied six-minute guitar display Dale talks about his influence on the electric guitar, his creation of surf music, the origins of "Misirlou," life, spirituality, "the Biz" and just about anything else that comes to his introspective mind. (Run Time: 20:13)

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