Early Life
Dale was born Richard Monsour in Boston MA, in 1937. He is of Lebanese, Polish and Belarusian descent (though his Lebanese father was not born in Lebanon). He and his family moved to Orange County, California, in 1954, where he learned to surf and became interested in music. He soon learned to play the drums, the ukulele, the trumpet, and finally the guitar. Due to his Lebanese heritage, he also had a strong interest in Arabic music, which would later play a major role on his development of surf rock music.
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