LOS ANGELES -- Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs such as "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin"' earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.

Family members, friends and fans attended a Southern California beach memorial for Dick Dale, the late King of the Surf Guitar. The Orange County Register says a crowd gathered Sunday at the ...

Guitarist Dick Dale, whose fast, thunderous sound pioneered the California "surf rock" genre of the early 1960s and gained a new generation of fans decades later through its appearance in "Pulp ...

The tune "Misirlou" has traveled quite a path, from klezmer music to 1950s exotica acts and finally to surf guitar and an appearance in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Many of you heard it again in a Jan.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Miserlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin'” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.

Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar” who formulated the sound and attack of the Southern California-bred instrumental style in the early ‘60s, has died. He was 81. His bassist, Sam Bolle, ...