Commonly referred to as the “King of the Surf Guitar”, Dick Dale brought about the genre now known as “Surf Rock” with his fierce brand of guitar playing which took the ears of many by surprise. Dale was instrumental in the use of high powered guitar amplifiers, reverberation as an effect and also the rise of heavy metal. Dick Dale was born Richard Anthony Mansour in Boston on the 4th of May 1937 to a father of Arab descent and a mother of Polish-Belarusian descent. He started learning to play music from the young age of nine years, the piano being his first instrument. He also played the harmonica and trumpet. After Dale finished his secondary education, his family moved to Southern California and this led Dale to take up surfing. This and …show more content…
Leo Fender discussed this dilemma with his technical officer Freddy T. who went to witness one of Dick Dale’s concerts at the Rendezvous Ball room, California. Leo Fender went back to the drawing board to revise the design of his amplifier. A special 85 watt output transformer was created that could handle the wattage Dale desired to play at. This Transformer was able to create the sheer volume and grit that Dale desired. The next problem was that they now needed a speaker that could handle the wattage and not begin to burn from the sheer overload in electrical …show more content…
Hendrix was quoted to have said "Then you'll never hear surf music again," after hearing that Dale had been diagnosed with a possibly terminal case of colon cancer. (Dale) Dale is often credited as being one of the pioneering guitarists to use non-Western modes in his compositions. This would go on to influence many guitarist writing darker material to employ these scales to bring a darker sound to their compositions, specifically in heavy metal and hard rock
From the beginning of the painting history until these days there is no doubt that the world holds a huge number of creative artists. Every artwork is inspired and created with love, dedication, passion and labor. Artists usually express themselves expressing feelings into painting. Wayne White is an American artist who loves to use old paintings to create a three dimensional style. One of his new piece is title Golden surf Rossi, he called this art “the Seventies”. The painting is currently being exhibited at the Gallery of Southwestern State College. It is around 40 by 22 inches; it is engraved in wood frame with gold color trim
There are certain musicians that come along that shift a culture, attitude, or future musicians. Another musician that went on influence future generations and considered one of the greatest guitar players in the world is Eddie Van Halen.
mother, Ruth, brought him to live with her at a sailor's hotel and bar that she
In 1967 the Beatles were in Abbey Road Studios putting the finishing touches on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At one point Paul McCartney wandered down the corridor and heard what was then a new young band called Pink Floyd working on their hypnotic debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He listened for a moment, then came rushing back. "Hey guys," he reputedly said, "There's a new band in there and they're gonna steal our thunder." With their mix of blues, music hall influences, Lewis Carroll references, and dissonant experimentation, Pink Floyd was one of the key bands of the 1960s psychedelic revolution, a pop culture movement that emerged with American and British rock, before sweeping through film, literature, and the visual arts. The music was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called "mind-expanding" drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide; "acid"), and attempted to recreate drug-induced states through the use of overdriven guitar, amplified feedback, and droning guitar motifs influenced by Eastern music. This psychedelic consciousness was seeded, in the United States, by countercultural gurus such as Dr. Timothy Leary, a Harvard University professor who began researching LSD as a tool of self-discovery from 1960, and writer Ken Kesey who with his Merry Pranksters staged Acid Tests--multimedia "happenings" set to the music of the Warlocks (later the Grateful Dead) and documented by novelist Tom Wolfe in the literary classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)--and traversed the country during the mid-1960s on a kaleidoscope-colored school bus. "Everybody felt the '60s were a breakthrough. There was exploration of sexual freedom and [...
Dale Earnhardt grew up in Kannapolis, North Carolina, a textile mill town. His father, Ralph Earnhardt, was known as "Iron heart" on the short-track racing circuit, and he taught Dale how to drive stock cars and work with engines. His father had converted a barn behind the family home into a garage, and he was well known for his skill with engines. Earnhardt's earliest memory is of watching his father race. Dale dropped out of high school after the eighth grade because he tried ninth grade twice and just couldn't do it. After he dropped out, Dale worked odd jobs, drove dirt tracks, and also argued with his father, which wanted him to complete high school. Dale became most famous with his black Monte Carlo with a dominate # 3 in white on it, but his first dirt track car was a 1956 hot-pink ford Sedan, which his neighbors gave to him, David and Ray Oliver. His father Ralph had built the engine, and some other friends, Frank and Wayne Dayvault and their cousin Gregg, tuned it. They intended to paint the car avocado green, but a paint mishap resulted in the car being pink. They could not afford to repaint it, and Dale raced the pink car on dirt tracks around Charlotte, North Carolina. Dale married for the first time at 17, and at age 18 had a son, Kerry. Dale divorced his first wife at 19 and married a second time to Brenda. This marriage would last five years before he divorced again. Dale had two children with his second wife, a daughter, Kelley, and a son, Dale Jr., who would both followed him into racing. While Dale was at the age of twenty two his father died from a heart attack. Earn...
During the 1950s, many rhythm and blues (R&B) artists, who were of African American descent, used the piano as their main choice of instrument,such as Little Richard. His music had that rock 'n' roll exuberance, soulful voice, and in your face shouting that is a common ingredient in rock today (“History of Rock & Roll-The 1950s”). An example, is the sound of his energetic piano riffs from “Tutti Frutti” . However, when Chuck Berry translated those “boogie woogie” riffs from the piano to the electric guitar, it just set the standard to how rock and roll should sound (“History of Rock & Roll-The 1950s”). The electric guitar riffs that Chuck Berry played, just sounded more upbeat and moving than anything that can be done on a piano. It was his guitar playing that ultimately left a large influence in the coming
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I. First I will start by discussing the various genres that created rock music in the 50’s and 60’s.
Music tends to follow the trends of its listeners; genres come and go with popularity. Rock and roll was considered to have its golden era in the 1960s (Rock and Roll). It stood out with unforgettable performances by Sly and the Family Stone, The Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Grateful Dead, Santana, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin (Rock and Roll). The Beatles were one of the top rock and roll bands. It is said that their music “combined the distinct sounds of Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and others which shaped a sound that dominated the sixties with its creativity and style” (Holland 105). Jimi Hendrix brought a new style of music called “acid rock”. He changed the way music was played by experimenting with different melodies, different chord...
The most touching bluesman of our time, and the most influential electric guitarist ever, the "King of the
Jerry Garcia’s life was filled with wonderful things, many of which he never expected in the first place. After an almost fatal heroin overdose in 1986, “ Garcia philosophically stated, ‘ I’m 45 years old, I’m ready for anything, I didn’t even plan on living this long so all this shit is just add-on stuff.’ ” (“Garcia”) This attitude shows why Garcia did all of the things he did and even how some of them came about. Garcia, who “functioned as the preeminent pied piper of the rock era,” led a life of great artistic ability which he used in many ways(“Grateful Dead_ Rockhall”).
I Get Around was a number on hit in May of 1964. This was the first of many Beach Boys number of hits.
Richard Joseph Daley, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in the Bridgeport area of Chicago on May 15, 1902. He was graduated from De La Salle Institute in 1918 and worked in the stockyards for several years before studying law. While studying, he worked as a clerk in the Cook County Controller's office. In 1936 Daley married Eleanor Guilfoyle, and the couple had three daughters and four sons. One son, Richard M. Daley, served in the Illinois Senate and as Cook County state's attorney before being elected mayor of Chicago in 1989.
Hugh Laurie was raised in England with his three siblings. As a young boy around age seven, Hugh Laurie began learning how to play piano from a teacher, Mrs. Hare, whom he did not favor because of her style of teaching him how to play. Hugh Laurie had his first encounter when he was ten, when he was listening to his family's car radio(Green 3). Laurie was captivated by the notes of this music, and it was instantly his favorite genre (Karlovits 2). Even after he had this encounter, with the blues, he did not desire a musical career yet. Instead, he started his working life with a comedy TV show on BBC with his friend Stephen Fry. This show, which was called "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", brought Hugh Laurie fame throughout the United Kingdom. However, this success would not last for long. Later, when Hugh Laurie began his acting career with the performance "Botham: The Musical." The audience did not like the play, and Hugh Laurie was doubtful about recovering from this downfall as an actor. As most people know though, he d...
The rise of rock and roll into the limelight is to a large extent attributed to the teenagers of the 1950’s. Early rock music listened to by teenagers during the 1950’s was formed by blending together Rhythm and blues with country music. This kind of ...