The guy is a huge part of surfing, music and Orange County history and was a pal of mine since the early 1960s. So, I thought today I would stroll through some of my “DD” memories, as ancient as they ...

This insight comes via David Kalt, a former options trader and broker who’s now focused on guitars and all things related. A decade after he co-founded the online broker OptionsXpress, which Schwab ...

Like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Dick Dale was an undisputed guitar god. Known as The King of Surf Guitar, he amplified the sound of California’s surf culture with his gold Fender Stratocaster ...

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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.

As Jardine reflects on the pop-cultural miracle of the Beach Boys and their rising tide of musicality as Brian Wilson's genius crested, he talks about the guitars behind it, and says it was fun, fun, ...

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Remember Jimi Hendrix's 1967 extraterrestrial classic "Third Stone From the Sun," where he promised the people of Earth that they'd never hear surf music again? Jimi didn't live to see the 1974 ...

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, ...