Is Dick Dale the most underrated guitarist of all time? The stuff he did was phenomenal, and he literally invented that surf rock sound and was a precursor to heavy metal/thrash. Dick Dale plays left-handed without reversing his strings, which is ridiculous. My favorite song by him: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xse34IZbCPk
>>61207949
Well, Dick Dale certainly isn't one of those instantly recognizable rock icons like Slash, Jimi Hendrix, or Kurt Cobain, but anybody who knows who Dick Dale is KNOWS who he is and he is pretty universally praised for his contributions to rock
I wouldn't say he's underrated, just not known well enough. He still sounds pretty great live, even if his health is starting to deteriorate
>>61207949
Dick Dale on /mu/? Fuck yes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-49f2qO2OPA
Also if you like him OP i would definitely check out The Shadows
>>61207949
>plays lefty w/out reversing strings
So he plays a right handed guitar flipped the wrong way? Or does he play a lefty and string it backwards?
>>61208101
Lefty strung backwards
>>61207949
is that the spongebob font?
>>61207949
him and Link Wray are the best guitarists that time forgot.
>>61207949
DALE
>yfw Misirlou is the first black metal song ever made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3h9p_c5-M
>>61208092
Know who they are, haven't listened to much of their stuff even though Apache is a great song.
>>61208321
This is their best album. They were way ahead of their time on some of these tracks.
Oh, c'mon. Who doesn't love Miserlou?
>>61207949
He's probably the most underrated rock guitarist of all time, although there are dozens of absolutely genius guitarists in folk, jazz, and experimental musics that never ever ever get any kind of recognition from most non-esoteric presses. But yeah, Dick Dale did all kinds of things with the guitar that came to be really relevant in the next thirty years of rock music, and no one cares, so that's interesting
