While attempting to summarize the total of Dick Dales influence on rock & roll would be like trying to bottle the Pacific Ocean, here are 12 artists who directly took his influence and rode on.
funniest earworm garage rock ever gobbed up. We were the only group up here in the Midwest turning the reverb up and playing things like Miserlou, said their rhythm guitarist Dal Winslow. The kids just went bananas for it. A lot of the stuff we played was the Dick Dale stuff.
The Ramones could commiserate; they boiled their sound down to rapid downstrokes and barre chords. The Ramones, Johnny Ramone has come to see Dick Dale play, Dale has said. It was really neat, all these groups coming to pay homage.
Youve got Dick Dale and Ricky Nelson, said Nosebleed in a 1995 interview, referring to the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.Do you reckon the Cramps would fit into something like that? Perfectly, said guitarist Poison Ivy. Yeah, I think so too, opined Interior. File under the dark side of surf-rock
