- In 2004 was on tour with his son Jimmy Dale, a 12 year old who can play some of his dad's lightning-fast guitar solos note for note
- Not to be confused with singer/saxophonist Dick Dale, a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show (1955) for many years.
- Voted #31 on Rolling Stones magazine's 2004 list of the top 100 greastest guitarists of all time.
- He was the son of Sophia "Fern" (Danksewicz) and James A. Monsour. His parents were born in Massachusetts, both of them to emigrant parents. His father's family was Lebanese/Syrian and his mother's Polish/Belarusian.
- Worked at Hughes Aircraft doing metallurgy.
- Once refused delivery of a box of cables from Guam.
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