{"id":483540,"date":"2019-03-18T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=809478"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:46:45","slug":"jack-white-pays-tribute-to-unique-innovator-dick-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/jack-white-pays-tribute-to-unique-innovator-dick-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White Pays Tribute to \u2018Unique Innovator\u2019 Dick Dale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jack-white-dick-dale-split-bw-2019.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jack-white\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jack-white\" data-tag=\"jack-white\">Jack White<\/a> penned a tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dick-dale\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dick-dale\" data-tag=\"dick-dale\">Dick Dale<\/a> following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dick-dale-surf-guitar-king-dead-obituary-809294\/\">the King of the Surf Guitar\u2019s death<\/a> Sunday. Like a generation of guitarists before him, White was inspired by Dale\u2019s pioneering style. \u201cI spent many moments learning his massive reverbed guitar licks in my bedroom, and still enjoy playing his song \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GuHs_mhg9Nk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nitro<\/a>\u2018 whenever I can,\u201d White wrote on the Third Man Records Instagram. \u201cSadly, I never got to meet him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to developing the surf rock genre, Dale also help mold the modern electric guitar thanks to his close relationship with Leo Fender, the then-owner of the guitar company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA unique innovator of the guitar with pick melting style and swagger for miles,\u201d White continued. \u201cI can remember traveling up to Pontiac from Detroit by myself to watch him play when I was sixteen. That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierguitar.com\/ext\/resources\/images\/content\/2014_09\/Blogs\/dick_dale_WEB.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">upside down gold sparkle Fender<\/a> of his needs to be hung up some place special.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvIjuHcl4Bz\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-1.6051502145923\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brian Wilson similarly paid tribute to Dale <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianWilsonLive\/status\/1107445386808041472\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on social media<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m sorry to hear about Dick Dale passing. Dick\u2019s guitar playing was a big influence on all of us, and we covered \u201cMisirlou\u201d on our Surfin\u2019 USA album in \u201863.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jack-white-dick-dale-809478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack White penned a tribute to Dick Dale following the King of the Surf Guitar\u2019s death Sunday. Like a generation of guitarists before him, White was inspired by Dale\u2019s pioneering style. \u201cI spent many moments learning his massive reverbed guitar licks in my bedroom, and still enjoy playing his song \u2018Nitro\u2018 whenever I can,\u201d White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 14:18:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}