UPC: 8719039007165 Rolling Stone magazine has rated Dick Dale number 31 in their all-time 100 Greatest Guitarists. Back in the late Fifties, fellow surfers nicknamed him the 'king of the surf guitar'; it was a title that unsurprisingly stuck. Dick Dale didn't just invent the sound of surf music, he brought it to the land-locked masses across America and the rest of the world. His revved-up, edgy guitar style would travel far beyond the beaches of southern California and inspire generations of players.