Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you’re going to play.

Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother’s flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad’s records. Gene Krupa and...

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. I was just riding the whitewater in, and...

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, ‘I used to see this guy when I was fourteen!’