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Colbs Engert - 6 years ago

Dick Dale is a cool cat

Misaka Mikoto - 6 years ago

this one sound like SRV.

Ruben Bruggeman - 6 years ago

The best Vinyl LP I've ever bought

Vitor_ Ômega - 6 years ago

Mr.Brownstone?

aurora d'arienzo - 6 years ago

pietro aligi Schiavi - 7 years ago

Rememeber, 1962!!!!! Absolutely guitar avant-garde....a great Dick Dale with the original Daltones!!!

Alejandro Jiménez Acevedo - 7 years ago

TRVE BLACK METAL!!! \M/

Marco Di Caprio - 7 years ago

Really impressive... It was 1962 but his music could have been of ten years later

Marco Di Caprio - 7 years ago

Too much ahead of his time!

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Murdering Media - 7 years ago

Anyone know those lyrics at the end, thanks in advance

Hulsensack - 7 years ago

"Hey little mama now don't you cry, mama's going downtown now to die. Hey little baby don't say a word, mama's gonna whip you 'bout something you heard."

e james - 7 years ago

reverb was not offered on fender amps until 1963.....................

optimat prime - 7 years ago

unpara sound! great.

JudeJaded15 - 7 years ago

I'd crown Bo Diddley w/what Dick is doing here. It's a Diddley lick or beat.

dean m roberts - 7 years ago

Rodney, I mostly surfed a 9'6" Weber. No idea how heavy. Learned to surf in the winter at Santa Monica pier, south side. Charter member of Menehuni Ka Kai.

Mick DeVille - 7 years ago

Excellent. as used in the 'rum diarys' but not on the soundtrack.

Ego Centrik - 8 years ago

Great Rn'R Jungle'Surf

Nat Franchesco - 8 years ago

this one goes straight to my favorites.....

TheKromusDevice - 8 years ago

I'm really starting to dig this 60's surf rock. The guitars are just so damn cool!

DeadPistolsBrainGerms - 6 years ago

+Russell Teapot Yeah, a Sax is considered woodwind because it uses a reed to produce sound whereas a brass instrument uses the buzzing of the lips. However, the whole point of the Sax was to basically be a hybrid between the two in many ways.

Russell Teapot - 6 years ago

oooh, it's a woodwind instrument because the element that makes the sound it's a wood reed, I thought it was a brass one, because it's made out of brass. Thank you for lettiing me search about that

DeadPistolsBrainGerms - 6 years ago

+Ethan Brown It's actually a woodwind instrument... Cuz it's a sax. Don't worry about it haha

Ethan Brown - 7 years ago

fuckin' loving the bass and the drums and the other guitar and the vocals and dick dale's skills and whatever that brass instrument is... i'm musically illiterate..

doge the dog - 8 years ago

we listen to dick dale after we surf at the beach in the summer

Glenda Badger-Cawthon - 8 years ago

Thats right I'm sayin it twice, DICK DALE ROCKS !

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Glenda Badger-Cawthon - 8 years ago

DICK DALE ROCKS !

John VW - 8 years ago

what are the lyrics in this fabulous tune?

dean m roberts - 8 years ago

I bought this album and my first surfboard at the same time. Around '62. Thanks to Dick Dale for heading me in the right direction. Lol ......

DeadPistolsBrainGerms - 6 years ago

This was my first LP ever. Wasn't the original pressing, but I'm still happy.

Rodney Stanton - 7 years ago

+dean m roberts Fan of Dick from 61. surfed in the late 50's. Colleged force me to stop. Borads in '59 were abour 6.5 ft and 120 lbs. How big was yours?

vanveenbussum - 8 years ago

Thumbs up, please, from those who discovered this wathing "The Rum Diary"

jasminne mcdonald - 8 years ago

Like, WOW! Tubular, dude! Hang ten!!

RainPoetry - 9 years ago

Amazing. Just found out his background is Lebanese from his father's side, and that he incorporated Middle Eastern musical styles in his music. You can hear it a bit here.

DeadPistolsBrainGerms - 6 years ago

+Brutalgruve Dick Dale actually did get a lot of it from relatives though. Misirlou was made when a fan bet him to make a song using only one string. Dale remembered his uncle or some relative playing it on the Oud using only one string. I don't think Dale went out of his way to learn Phrygian or Double Harmonic Scales. It probably came naturally to him due to his surroundings. He has even said a few times he can't play any scales. I'm sure he can it's just he doesn't know he is and/or can't name the scale and its notes. Misirlou basically shows you the entire Double Harmonic scale. It practically is the scale.

Jonas Henriksson - 6 years ago

Yes, and Dale claimed in several interviews that his style of playing the guitar wasn't even modelled on another guitarrist, but rather the drummer Gene Krupa, and he wanted to incorporate that rhythm into his playing style. This song in particular has a Krupa style drum break.

Brutalgruve - 8 years ago

I can see how you might take my point differently then intended, and I may have taken yours. We are on the same page.

RainPoetry - 8 years ago

+Brutalgruve Agree that he's a great surf guitarist, and of course many musicians are exposed to different forms of scales and music, because music really knows no boundaries and barriers.. And it's quite well known Dick Dale was exposed to and practiced Lebanese folk music as a child through his father's side of the family. I don't think that takes away any of his brilliance and innovative accomplishments as a musician.

Brutalgruve - 8 years ago

+RainPoetry It is common for musicians to learn and play many different modes/scales. Beatles to Devin Townsend to Lorena Mckennitt. Phrygian mode has been used for eons, not getting the amazing Lebanese. Dick dale is a great surf guitarist (period)

Ross - 9 years ago

I think this is his best song. Great sax, great beat, speedy playing, just enough vocals not over the top, and the drums are solid. You can't ask for anything better!

Magi Mysticism - 9 years ago

much better than wipeout!!!!! jimmy head

Chris - 9 years ago

Does anyone have a guitar tab for this?

Ben Dover - 6 years ago

Riding an E chord, with a lot of sliding on the low E, and a little freestyle pentatonic on the 12th fret.
Some double stop sliding on the high E and B.

DeadPistolsBrainGerms - 6 years ago

+MattikusMaximus Usually hate people going all like "figure it out yourself noob," but I can't argue with you. You're right. Plus, Dick Dale's stuff isn't too hard to learn by ear in my opinion. It always revolves around a key in E. E minor... E Double Harmonic... E Phrygian Dominant... Just play around those scales and you can play most of Dick Dale's stuff.

MattikusMaximus - 6 years ago

If you're good enough to play this, you're probably good enough to figure it out without a tab.

grin60 - 8 years ago

+Chris ah ba bam ba bam ba ba ba bam

calirepubaudio - 9 years ago

SO CLASSIC. big ups to the originators...also check out RAYTOM ("Legends of Stoke") and ("Giant Barrels") on youtube for some cool So. Cal retro surf grooves... -Lates :)

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Benjamin Basualto - 9 years ago

Nice

Steve Brooks - 9 years ago

I went to many of his concerts in Newport beach and San bernardino in high school.
lots of great memories 1964

Фридрих Энгельс - 9 years ago

мс вспышкин, ты слышишь это? RIP

Plume de singe - 8 years ago

+Фридрих Энгельс Мне нравится ебать козМне нравится ебать коз

Фридрих Энгельс - 8 years ago

+pisun12345 уже не важно

Фридрих Энгельс - 8 years ago

+Фридрих Энгельс видимо никто и звать ни как

Фридрих Энгельс - 9 years ago

+pisun12345 ты кто?

Gisele Ayora - 9 years ago

so amazing

Kr Bln - 9 years ago

Does anyone knows where I can find the tabs and the lyrics ??

Gabe Farmer - 10 years ago

Fuck you who said GAYYYYYBE farmer your a Fucking Dick you Fucking asshole

Jorrit Feitsma - 9 years ago

Gaybe

MrKajithecat - 10 years ago

Rum Diaries

René Mareau - 10 years ago

Must be a Tarantino favorite

Gabe Farmer - 10 years ago

All u guys who get mad Wen someone says a song or a type of music is stupid or gay ETC. u guys are the FAGS

DeadPistolsBrainGerms - 7 years ago

+xXxamadeusxXx97 Mate, you got "xXx" on both sides of your name. You've got no say in this.

xXxamadeusxXx97 - 9 years ago

Gaybe fuckmer xddddddeeeeee

evand848 - 10 years ago

GAAAAAYbe Farmer...

Karinda Mckenzie - 10 years ago

WHOOO

guloguloguy - 8 years ago

+Karinda Mckenzie .............that'd be "DICK DALE"!!! :D

KATHLEEN DUVALL - 10 years ago

13 DouchNozzles Thumbs Down, Need Chinese Water Torture......

Nick - 10 years ago

What was that other song with the lyrics "hey little mama don't you cry" from Dale?

LeolikesFire - 10 years ago

aaahdaamn

IlxTiratore - 10 years ago

This generation doesn't want it if you can't grind to it. Pretty sad that dancing has gone downhill with the sounds of music.

Blaine Barber - 10 years ago

Motown, Stax, Beatles, Surf... good times I say!!!!

NuckChorris - 10 years ago

Why is this not popular today? It's very danceable and catchy.. just like all mainstream music today.

blastofre - 10 years ago

Even the commercial music back then was worth listening to. Nowadays its a struggle to find music that doesn't suck! The early 60's were amazing- surf rock, bossa nova, girl groups, doo-wop.

Shazam. KaBoom - 10 years ago

Someone could write what he sings at 2:11 ,, I just can undertand some random words of the vocal part of this song,

BlackenedThunder - 10 years ago

it did exist.

Leonardo Paoletti - 10 years ago

nope.

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electrostatic1 - 10 years ago

It's Bo Diddley.

dictatorofneptune - 10 years ago

dick dale started first in 1959 while hendrix started rockin in 1963 and he stuck more with blues and psychedelic shit

Clifford Coleman - 6 years ago

dictatorofneptune so fuckin what hendrix was the man and my idol so what he played blues and psycadelic shit so what dude.You got something against hendrix?

mtkwizard - 10 years ago

u too

Caio Augusto - 10 years ago

there's a few takes and versions spelled miserlou.

The Falken Showcase - 10 years ago

Yeah, didn't Jimi Hendrix write the first surf rock song, enter sandman?

Joulou Boul - 10 years ago

misirlou is just a great cover from dick dale its not his song

Paul Christenson - 10 years ago

You mean Misirlou

PhilipSydneyRoss - 10 years ago

No, but people seemed more ashamed of it. Compare the Monkees who hated themselves to Disney bands like the Jonas Brothers who don't get why they are hated at all. I agree though, the past decades look so much better because most of the crap has been sifted out and we're all left with the gold

Johnny Spades - 10 years ago

milo ze ktos w Polsce slucha dobrego surfu ;)

Aaron Farrell - 10 years ago

gay

Aaron Farrell - 10 years ago

shut your mouth

The Falken Showcase - 10 years ago

Surf Rock Requirements: Animal type drummer, Groovy Bassist, and REVERB! Surf rock has to have reverb or it is just rockabilly. The key is to get the effect of a huge wave surrounding you, which acts as a large echo chamber. Vocals not necessary, but when present must have extremely happy tones or tones of excitement such as the HEY's in miserlou. Remember, the waves are rolling! So Must the Instruments. Dick Dale is one of the best. There is a reason his song is on Pulp Fiction WIPE OUT

Dharma Beach Bum - 10 years ago

Just the way Dick Dale wants it.

ElijahMFearon - 10 years ago

i dig it.

midnitebandit - 10 years ago

Mona

UltimateRockLegend - 10 years ago

guitar is drowning in reverb

jhnsnow421 - 10 years ago

You're bang on, most people forget that shit music tends to be forgotten and the good music survives; like a filtering process i suppose.

MetalBucket - 10 years ago

That's the point about dumb commercial music : you get forgotten. I'm willing to bet that in 30 years everyone will be woaw the 2010s were so much better than today just because the good stuff like Buckethead, Shaka Ponk, Limp Bizkit, Arctic Monkeys and so on will be remembered and the stupid stuff will have disappeared.

Reavis Franklin - 10 years ago

Perfect response!!

domen kac - 10 years ago

an example?

Jim Johnston - 10 years ago

Hey everybody, I'm three months old and I love this sort of music. Better than that Bieber lol! Thumbs me up if your a pseudo-intellectual looking for approval of your identity and agree that the mainstream music of today is over-commercial. Maybe if we get enough thumbs up mainstream will be ok again.

EElectric_M - 10 years ago

Ignore everybody, listen to this, and shut up.

Robert Moore - 10 years ago

Why isn't this all over the radio? Surf rock is the greatest genre of music ever! Well, at least in my opinion.

Terrance Jackson - 10 years ago

Cool stuff! I knew that the thorogood one was a cover, but didn't know the details

daveisnotdave - 10 years ago

Bo Diddley is the original influence on both: wrote/recorded "Who Do You Love?" (1956) and the beat of this song (bom/ bom/ bom/ cha-cha) is known as the "Bo Diddley beat".

Terrance Jackson - 10 years ago

You can see where george thorogood got his inspiration for "who do you love" alkmost a dead ringer. At least that's what I could assume

QuangThichDuc - 10 years ago

Tarantino sure thinks so.

karlos275 - 10 years ago

hic a doola

kjc10 - 10 years ago

you called it buddy fo sho

fiddlerpin - 11 years ago

That's Bo Diddley's beat!

Ruth Switzer - 11 years ago

Love this! I never heard it before! Love you You Tube! Yea!

PAUL SHAROD - 11 years ago

they actually have used this music in a movie called 'The Rum Diarys', great film based on the Hunter S Thompson novel....

mute754 - 11 years ago

If I were a film maker I would be sure to use this in a scene. There is something about surf rock and cinema.

Kent C - 11 years ago

You got that right James. BO OWNS IT.

jamejs - 11 years ago

lol everyone did

cody fuller - 11 years ago

brings be back to my good days !

Eduardo Esquivel - 11 years ago

mota para el sonido HQ :)

MetalBucket - 11 years ago

Why? you think dumb commercial music didn't exist back then?

Kent C - 11 years ago

Ripped off my man BO DIDDLEY but sounds ok.

rompn4x - 11 years ago

True...

João Quinto - 11 years ago

at least you have internet!

Roy Jones - 11 years ago

This is the guitar riff Bo Diddley made famous that so many guitarists like Dale used

hillfolkloki996 - 11 years ago

anybody hear one bourbon one scotch one beer, yep,

Luuk Drost - 11 years ago

if i listen this song... i think its raining outside love dickdale awesome music!!

stoningtonj - 11 years ago

i could hear it too. lol

Marck Bolan - 11 years ago

its more bo than anything .....

Marck Bolan - 11 years ago

you must one dumb fucker to say shit like , thoroughtgood sucks!!!!! he never did anything good , just a white boy hack

John anonamous - 11 years ago

This intro sounds exactly like who do you love by george thoroughgood

spatemdim - 11 years ago

fun music

xelena - 11 years ago

This. Blows. My. MIND!

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Matt Major - 11 years ago

Then you're childhood was legen...wait for it...dary!

longhornhodad - 11 years ago

Glad he's still around to give the Beach Boys a mighty swift kick!

Todd Jones - 11 years ago

Hey, HBsurfergirl you must be Joyce Hoffman! Had a few friends, now long lost, from there.

Ball Peen Baybee - 11 years ago

Lol, What the fuck is UniusREI?? Can't say I've heard of that one before ~_o

Ball Peen Baybee - 11 years ago

Whos the one douchebag?

Claire Hourigan - 11 years ago

no one cares

Michael B - 11 years ago

drums when dd playing the best part. I grew up on post Misirlou in Pulp Fiction DD late 1990s...this is still one of my favs

César E. Silva - 11 years ago

This is from "Fade Away"??

Pazanno - 11 years ago

Rhum diary

edge9090 - 11 years ago

Yes, cool song. Love Dick Dale.

Grrson Koopa - 11 years ago

this one. he screams first ;)

TheArsebear - 11 years ago

great stuff

edge9090 - 11 years ago

There was a Dick Dale song in that movie. Not sure which one.

surfbound55 - 11 years ago

at least he surfed the longboard not like the so called beach boys, Surfers choice bk in the day outstanding and not really Bo Diddley he was a boxer!

blazeofgloryjovi - 11 years ago

Right on!

james perry - 11 years ago

Uhh,... excuse me, but Bo Diddley is the originator of this beat time in R & B and early Rock & Roll. And further...Bo Diddley wrote "Who Do You Love?"....NOT George Thorogood!

Dennis Sloan - 11 years ago

THAT IS DICK ON THE DRUMS ! HE DID BOTH THE SONG, AN THE DRUMS IN THIS. ONE MORE FOR TRIVIA . I HAVE THIS ALBUM. MY SISTER GOT IT FOR ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY, BACK IN '63. AFTER BEING OUT HERE IN RIVERSIDE,CA. THE YEAR BEFORE, AN HEARING DICK DALE "WALE" FROM THE RIVERSIDE 'ARMORY" THAT WAS 1/2 BLOCK AWAY !! YEAH, THIS ALBUM WAS BOUGHT AT BOSCHOVE'S ...IN READING, PA. !!!

Betsy West - 11 years ago

I love this song it brings back memories. love love .............................I am not saying I would paddle out but I can sit on the shore and watch.......Drum Solo my foot.....

IronicallyVague - 11 years ago

Seek Bo Diddley... Absorb & emulate

ShyteKreek46 - 11 years ago

I wonder if this was the song that inspired George Thorogood to write "Who Do You Love."

CC bl - 11 years ago

this song reminds me of the rum diary xD

Freshmean - 11 years ago

cowabunga

weirdhorrordude - 11 years ago

love tat drum solo! minfluge

weirdhorrordude - 11 years ago

you must be old.

weirdhorrordude - 11 years ago

first generation of punk rock music,

purakanthos - 11 years ago

i say that you are irrelevant :P it's greek!! there is also the google translation :P

sh9683 - 11 years ago

?? what language is that? i speak eglish and french, so i have no idea what you just said

purakanthos - 11 years ago

ακυρε

sh9683 - 11 years ago

ive never surfed i live n the middle of praries thousands of miles away from any ocean and i love this song

Macnavor - 11 years ago

I will have to go behind the mountain 70 km from my home and then.......get into the waves just need a board of course in my country a board cost a lot more than in the US

Macnavor - 11 years ago

The way it supose to be! Wait I never grew up near the beach!!!!! =( How can I listen dick dale.......while surfing? .........mmmm probably with an ipod water-proof =P get it!

spike wilson - 11 years ago

Loved how that the Bo Diddley beat is mixed in this song, I didnt know that Bo knows surfing. Ha-Ha just joking.I love the song

KrispyKreatin - 11 years ago

i wish i lived in california or hawaii.... this great surf music does me no good in the dump im living in now

Terga2010 - 12 years ago

You lucky son of a gun, you.

middy cat - 12 years ago

great fun new to this kind of music but like what i am hearing

Fan666Maiden - 12 years ago

Lucky you :)

Ron Winship - 12 years ago

Dick Dale was a great guy. He played at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa and played his butt off for years.....he deserved the fame he got with Miserlou and all the other heavy hitters on the Surfer's Choice album. Loved his sacks man....and the drummer too!

edi balta - 12 years ago

fucking love it

OddballLion - 12 years ago

A long time favorite, others grew up with listening to nursery rhymes..... I grew up listening to Dick Dale.

speedgrs - 12 years ago

"The Rum Diary" I like the movie because of this music!!!!

rompn4x - 12 years ago

I grew up in the wrong era...

Kirk Smith - 12 years ago

Dick Dale plays the guitar like it's a machine gun. My favorite song from him. Very cool then. Very cool now. Forever cool. Thanks for the upload. Take it easy.---Kirk

BuenosPolska - 12 years ago

@LOCO1591 Eu gostaria voltar a Itacaré tambem...

Álvaro Fernando Souza - 12 years ago

Não vejo a hora do verão chegar, para surfar em Itacaré - BA, ouvindo Dick Dale, The king of guitar surf music!

Lex Berkhout - 12 years ago

An underrated song! This is great stuff.

A TC - 12 years ago

Insanely amazing, the masses havent noticed this masterpeice and they dont deserve it either.

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