Posted on 05/24/2014 7:39:25 PM PDT by virgil283
Dick Dale’s original made people say that it was THE surf tune that gave the listener the experience of how brutal surfing can be. Vince however managed to turn it into the feeling of a cruise along the riviera. I tip my hat off to Vince for turning that tune around in the way he did.
Hear Vince Guaraldi’s jazz trio version from the 60’s Trident Lounge in Sausalito CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ZqKdwBt6k
Here is Dick Dale in a Live TV performance of ‘Misirlou’.
Check out the band memebers, and tell me that you see an Al Franken clone, there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8
Creator of one of the most famous guitar riffs ever. The opening of “Pipeline”
Wasn’t he a regular at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach? That’s where I seem to remember him more than the Rendezvous.
Senior in HS in 1962. Better times I can not imagine.
I think he was Lebanese and so the ME sound to the music.
Looks like Kasey Kasim has been found there at the end too...
That’s exactly what happens to me when someone starts on of these threads.
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