Dick Dale

Dick Dale Thursday, July 2, 2009 Element Nightclub, 919 Douglas St., Victoria Doors 7:00pm - Show 8:00pm - EARLY SHOW Tickets: $23.00 Advance / $25 Door Available at: Lyle's Place 770 Yates St., Ditch Records 635 Johnson St., and online at www.hightideconcerts.net Dick Dale websites: www.dickdale.com & www.myspace.com/dickdalecom The Dick Dale Phenomenon. His style is something different and unique. Since his first appearances Balboa, Ca. at the famed Rendezvous Ballroom, he has set and broken attendance records everywhere he's performed. His appearances at the Rendezvous Ballroom broke every existing record for the Ballroom by drawing capacity crowds of over four thousand screaming dancing fans every weekend each night down on the Balboa peninsula. Dick Dale invented surf music in the 1950's. Not the '60's as is commonly believed. He was given the title "King of the Surf Guitar" by his fellow surfers with whom he surfed with from sun-up to sun-down. He met Leo Fender the guitar and amplifier Guru and Leo asked Dale to play his newly creation, the Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar. The minute Dale picked up the guitar, Leo Fender broke into uncontrolled laughte... more...