The Dick Dale Phenomenon

Dick Dale plays a CFox SJ Body-Sierra Series acoustic guitar. Dale's guitar is optioned with a German Spruce soundboard, Quilt Maple back & sides, compound cutaway w/extended 24-fret fingerboard and Abalone position markers, and a Fishman Prefix Onboard Blender pickup system. Dale says the workmanship is beyond belief and the tone is a blend of richness and fullness. Dale says it is a joy to play and Dale is going to showcase this marvel piece on stage with his Bass player Ron Eglit who also plays a Charles Fox Acoustic Guitar. Be sure to hear Dale and Eglit play their Acoustics during Dale's concerts.

Ron Eglit plays a CFox SJ Body-Sierra Series acoustic guitar as well. Ron's guitar is optioned with an Engelmann Spruce soundboard, Cocobolo back & sides, Cocobolo wood binding, compound cutaway w/extended 24-fret fingerboard and Abalone position markers, and a Fishman Prefix Onboard Blender pickup system. Dale states about Ron, "THE BEST and I mean the VERY BEST along with being part of our family is a Bass Player called RON EGLIT (Captain Ron), on stage Ron is a part of me and we think and react alike. I could not see myself on stage without Ron Banging right by my side. You can take that to the Bank!"

Dick Dale's style is something different and unique. Since his first appearances in Balboa, Ca. at the famed Rendezvous Ballroom, he has set and broken attendance records everywhere he's performed. His appearances at the Rendezvous Ballroom broke every existing record for the Ballroom by drawing capacity crowds of over four thousand screaming dancing fans every weekend each night down on the Balboa peninsula. 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.

It is a Phenomena, that Dale is still playing with not only the same vengeance as he did in the 50's but his playing is unleashed and shredding into the 90's with a focus and power as if from mother nature. He shares the stage with fellow players of all generations up into the alternative's of the 90's. Being completely self taught, Dick Dale plays left handed upside down which was a result of holding the guitar left-handed. The strings became upside-down, chords are designed for right handed players making it very difficult for a left handed player unless he were to change the strings for a left handed guitar, something that Dale never did.

Dale is also a master at the Acoustic, Electronic, Bass and Spanish Guitars'. As well as the Ukulele, Banjo, Drums, Piano, Organ, Electronic Keyboard, Harpsichord, Trumpet, Trombone, Saxophone, Harmonica, Xylophone and, believe it or not . . . the Accordion!

Dick Dale has been called one of the hardest working men in show business. In the past five years he has maintained a heavy concert tour and public appearance schedule throughout the world. Focusing in Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada, South America and the U.S. When touring, Dale brings his wife Jill and son Jimmy and occasionally the two will join in, Jill and Jimmy on Drums.

In 1986 Dick was named Forefather of Rock and Roll by Thirty Years of Rock and Roll, and in 1988 Dick Dale and Stevie Ray Vaughn were both together nominated for a Grammy Award for the music in the motion picture Back to the Beach. Dale was also awarded the Lifetime Pop Music Culture Award from UC Berkeley with Ice-T, John Lee Hooker and Mick Fleetwood. In 1996 Dick was given a Platinum Record award for his performance recording of Miserlou, the guitar instrumental that gave Quentin Tarantino the energy force to create the the all time award movie Pulp Fiction. Miserlou was made the Title song. 1996, Dale was also inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame and also inducted into the Surfing Hall of Fame located in the Hall of Champions building in San Diego, Ca..

Dick Dale was the first person to create the surf music sound. The first to take a sport and develop a music for it. He was also the first to have more than one record on the Top Ten charts at one time, and also to have five songs from a single album on the charts at once. He was first to sell out the Los Angeles sports arena, and the first rock guitarist to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. He's also the first power rock guitarist to be featured in a double page layout in Life magazine.

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