Talk:Dick Dale

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1. Movie role - "Rick", surf shop owner in the film "Local Boys" released in 2002. Verified by watching the film and IMDb website cast and crew list. I'm watching the film while I write this email and I recognized him immediately.

2. Verfied by IMDb. He does have more film roles than listed on your website. Your film listing for film credits is incomplete.

3. Dick was well known for owning two tiger cubs that he drove around in his Mercedes and took them with him everywhere. See newspaper articles, photos in the OC Register newspaper (Santa Ana, California based newspaper. OCRegister.com) and ask people who knew him. You will have to use the OC Register morgue or ask the old reporters who covered Dick to verify since this was prior to the Internet and the stories are not online. Anyone who knew Dick during that time saw him with his tiger cubs. I don't know what became of the tigers. I never asked him.

4. Dick was a private pilot and owned his own airplane that he kept at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California. He kept his plane at (Eddie) Martin Aviation at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California. He was a well known personality in the aviation community. His pilot's license can be verified with the FAA and pilots who knew him. Former employees of Martin Aviation can verify he kept his plane with them and brought his tiger cubs to the airport.

5. 1996 he headlined the Doheny Blues Festival with The Monkees at Doheny Beach in Dana Point, California. His young son played the drums. You can verify with Omega Events, the organizers of the Doheny Blues Festival every year. I was there. I saw him play. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anja Dee (talk • contribs) 00:48, 8 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I would encourage you to add the information yourself as you have the sources at your disposal. It's not a hard task and would give you some experience in this area that you may find rewarding. There are folks here who can help out if you have questions and Wikipedia has good help resources also.THX1136 (talk) 15:17, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Which amp?
In the last paragraph of the article it mentions Dale used both the Dual Showman and the Showman amp. These are two different amps circuit-wise and their cabinets would be different also. While these differences are important to primarily guitar players and others into Fender amp minutia, it would be nice for clarity to know if he used both. It would be also nice to know which he currently uses. Thanks!THX1136 (talk) 15:14, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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Horrible article on Dick Dale
This Article has so many inconsistencies and false facts that it is impossible to even begin. This paragraph has false, misleading and vague information: "Dale was born Richard Anthony Mansour in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1937. He is of Lebanese descent from his father and Polish-Belarusian descent from his mother.[3] His grandparents farmed in Whitman, Massachusetts." Dick Dale was born in Berut, Lebanon according to all pre-internet archival information dating back to the 1960's. What grandparents farmed in Whitman, Massachusetts? What were their names? If they were his fathers parents then they would have farmed somewhere in Lebanon. If they were his mothers parents they would probably have been shoveling snow in Poland, not farming in Whitman.

" It was in Southern California that he learned to surf at the age of 17.[10] He soon learned to play the drums and the trumpet." Yet previously Dick Dale was quoted in the article as saying ""I first was given a trumpet when I was in seventh grade" and later quoted as saying "When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg." The article just keeps disintegrating as it goes further along with some fake quotes and some paragraphs that look like quotes but are just opinions of some horrible editor.

The article just goes on and on and on with a bunch of garbage. This article could be a couple paragraphs long. It should read something like this: "Dick Dale is a surf guitarist born in 1937 in Berut Lebanon. He moved with his family to Southern California as a child and began playing guitar as a teenager. He developed his unique picking style combining middle eastern melodies and sounds inspired from his own surfing experience. Dick Dale found success with his surf music in 1962. Dick Dale is still playing shows as of 2018 and still plays many of the same songs he played in the early 1960's." Thats it folks, quit destroying wikipedia with all this fake garbage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.239.55.219 (talk) 07:08, 16 June 2018 (UTC)


 * As once put it, "Start with an article that looks like shit and reads like it was written by a high-school dropout. A hundred edits later, take another look at the article – and it still looks and reads like shit. That's because the intervening edits did useful things like replace m-dashes with n-dashes, capitalized the first letters of template names, added interwiki links, vandalized and reverted the vandalism, made sure that bold text was being used as laid down in the manual of style, removed extraneous blank lines and miscellaneous other actions which did not, in any fundamental way, improve the article. This is the problem with eventualism: it assumes that, somewhere along the way, someone's actually going to fix the real problems and not just niggle around the edges." Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)  11:25, 18 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Dick Dale himself says in this interview that he was born in the USA: https://biptunia.com/?p=5291 ElizaBarrington (talk) 18:39, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Death rumors
I've semi-protected the page until the death reports are confirmed by reliable sources. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 19:33, 17 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I've unprotected; there's a decent source now. Someone better at references now could please stick in https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dick-dale-surf-guitar-king-dead-obituary-809294/ thanks! --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 21:18, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

How old?
Dick Dale was actually 81 when he died. He would have been 82, if he had lived until his birthday. 203.196.41.161 (talk) 21:10, 17 March 2019 (UTC) Editrite!

First instrument?
In the 'Early life' section it says Dale began playing piano, immediately followed by a quote in which he says he was "given a trumpet in 7th grade" and the article then starts talking about him playing ukulele in kindergarten! So, which WAS his first instrument? JezGrove (talk) 23:17, 17 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I've started cleaning up the article by removing the blockquotes, but haven't got as far as checking for factual accuracy yet. The whole article might as well be rewritten from the ground up. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:05, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Parents
Did he have parents and how come "Due to his Lebanese heritage"? 80.151.9.187 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:12, 18 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I believe most, if not all, human beings have parents. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:14, 18 March 2019 (UTC)