Missirlou was first aired in Athens around 1927 by Dimitris Patrinos, a musician from Smyrni. The song refers to a Christian's love for a Muslim, a theme-taboo for that time and not only. The melody either existed before and was a familiar listening in the wider area of the Ottoman Empire, or it is a group work of Patrinos' band. The only sure thing is that Patrinos wrote the lyrics. The international journey of the song began in 1930 by the US, with the release of Orthophonic album by Greek-American Titos Dimitriadis. In 1941 another Greek-American, musician Nikos Roubani changed his tone and melody, giving him the oriental sound he is known today. Make sure he has his name as composer of the song. As no one has disputed this right, Roubani appears as a composer of Misirllos all over the world except for Greece. Immediately after the adaptation of Rubanis, the song became part of the repertoire of great swing-era orchestras such as Harry James, Woody Herman and Xavier Kughat. But the great success for Missirlou came in the early 1960s by Surf-Rock artists. At the beginning, guitarist Dick Dale, a Lebanese musician (Richard Mansour's real name), started playing a solo with a single string of guitar. He chose Missirlou to respond to the challenge. In 1963, the great The Beach Boys featured in Surfin 'USA a performance of Dale's song, making Missirlo part of the surf tradition as well as American pop culture. In 1994, Missirlou in the performance of Dick Dale came back to the fore as he was listening to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, while in 2006 he became popular as the basis for the Black Eyed Peas, Pump it. th-cam.com/video/LW6qGy3RtwY/w-d-xo.html
@@AS-zs5qo And thats exactly what the song is talking about. A greek guys love (passion) for a muslim egyptian woman which way back (before world war 2 and even 1) greeks called Misirlou meaning woman from Misir=arabic for Egypt as we called cristian Egyptian women simply Egyptian. The word is probably taken while under Ottoman reign.
Dale’s signature guitar style: Most guitars are strung for a right-handed player. Dale, a lefty, originally picked up the guitar upside down so he could play naturally - without restringing the instrument, leaving the thicker strings on the bottom of the fret board. “[N]obody told me I was holding it wrong,”. “I just taught myself to play it like that. It was hard at first.”
A master at work - this was the first Surf tune I learnt. I was going to note Hendrix was also a lefty (self included) so it seems odd and confusing and does take getting used to, playing a RH Strat 'wrong side up', but when you consider that early UK users had enough probs getting RH ones so lefties just bit the bullet and played RH editions upside down. That's where dual rows of tuners (aka Gibson and classic acoustic and jazz guitars style) pays off as you can easily just restring them to suit, but the single row tuners style means much more effort to mod to RH, probably doubles the new cost easily and it's still a comprise - so it's no surprise us lefties just adapted our methods to the guitar rather than pay silly LH guitar prices. Most of mine are RH played ass ways up, but two I did manage to get LH'ers at reasonable cost (¹² string 59 Dantone and a Washburn 12 acoustic I modded to dual electric/electroacoustic using parallel outputs - and you still get a proper twangy acoustic sound for mic pickup). Us lefties are like continental drivers in RHD countries, oddballs who never look comfortable but if you're good at something, you really beat the odds and excel at it. I guess it's a motivation and necessity driven thing.
@@JK-gm6kk probably lesser known maybe was the bass playing that was a blend of bass/rhythm and lead simultaneously and in various combos by one of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (signature sound in 'Shakin All Over), now that was another example many tried to copy and failed miserably. But, sometimes a failure generates it's own distinct style - as Wilco Johnson (of Dr Feelgood) developed accidentally trying to mimick that combo style from Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and failing badly as he described his attempt but created a signature sound that's still very distinctive. It takes some doing to get such things down smoothly and repeatable, but when you get it - you get it, and as WJ proved, sometimes you get even when you don't get it. Add in offhand playing, and an inverted instrument and then you're talking hard+++.
My grandfather was the original drummer in the band. They still use the original song for Pulp Fiction, and he is actually credited. Weird to think about.
How to turn a traditional, ages old levantine tune into a massive and ground-breaking success in the Western World. That's Dick Dale, ladies and gentlemen!
The original song was writen by a Greek singer and composer, in the 1920's. The song belongs to a Greek music kind, called ''rebetiko'' and was the underground of then. th-cam.com/video/LW6qGy3RtwY/w-d-xo.html
You mean to tell me I finally discovered the original and he died literally a few days ago? That's messed up man, still music is forever and I'm sure people will have this tasty jam in their head 50, 100, maybe even 500 years from now!
+Alexandros Livanos Yes, but Dick Dale made his own version. Black Eyed Peas just ripped this off. There has been multiple cases of Will.I.Am ripping off other music as well.
props to black eyed peas for giving a younger generation awareness to this song and this genre. He didn't rip them off, he never took credit for it, its called a sample. Most hip hop song sample other songs
Praise God people please he gived his only son for your sins and to show you how much you mean to him he want us he loves us so much Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen
You'd be surprised at how underrated Dick Dale is, and how over looked surf rock is. I absolutely love this type of rock, it's still cool to this day, and I'm glad it plays in Typhoon Lagoon lol.
Prill Jazz America oh god! The song Pipeline by the Chantays is legendary. You should do what I do, get on Pandora and use the surf rock channel you'll hear all kinds of songs on there.
+Sydney O'Bier thanks for the suggestion. Ill do that. I live in atlanta and we have a lot of record store in town and the surrounding area. I went to one and hit jackpot! There were sooooo many quality surf/garage rock compilations, with both rare and popular choices. I bought 7 to get started. Im so stoked!
I met dick dale when I was a kid growing up in San Diego and attending his concerts many times. He was a super nice guy, always spent time talking to us young gremmies, and happily autographed his record jackets we gave him. He played guitar so fast and furious he literally melted guitar pics. We would leap to the ground to try to collect them! He always nodded down and thanked us! His kind gestures meant the world to us
I spent a month as a teen summer of 65 hitching the west coast from BC to California. Saw Dick Dale in Balboa. What an incredible time to be alive, back when the usa was the land of milk and honey and cheap gas.. California was pure magic.
I met Dick Dale all by himself at a club in Woodcrest (near Riverside CA) when I walked in there and he was in the main room practicing all by himself. I didn't realize how famous he was. I was either 16-17-18 at the time. He took a few minutes to show me how neat his speaker was. How about that?
@Michael Smith It's rad. He's so down to earth he's downplayed. But here's a fact... DD taught Jimi Hendrix the slide. Jimi Idolized DD as Buddy Miles, Jimi Drummer did as well and hundreds of thousands of others. His style became the style of picking used by Heavy Metal and punk rock. You met a true legend.
He didn't pioneer it. The Ventures and Shadows had put out music like this already back in 1960. But somebody started labeling this type of music "surf"--even though it had fuck-all to do with surfing and California--and Dick Dale was johnny-on-the-spot to crown himself king of the surf guitar.
Surf's always up in heaven. Incredible innovator of a uniquely American sound, taking it where no Stratocaster had gone before - via a Middle Eastern folk tune.
@@tundratortoise9622 I feel your pain about missing a great. I really do. Any artist you like over 50 years of age playing near you, do not hesitate, buy your ticket. You just never know. I was perhaps 19 or 20, and on whim, drove 2.5 hours to see Elvis Presley. A few months later he was dead. The one time I went against my own advice (in the '90s) and passed on seeing Frank Sinatra. Sure enough, he soon passed. These days I go see anyone. All of them. We only go around the Sun so many times.
Newton Monroe Stop telling me how to spell ,you grammar Nazi ! I prefer to use lower case letters you fucking moron, BECAUSE DOING THIS WOULD GET ME INTO TROUBLE WITH OTHER POSTERS.. I WHY DON'T YOU GO TO A SCHOOL WHERE THEY TEACH MANNERS,YOU CLEARLY NEED SOME YOU NITIWT... WITH A USER NAME LIKE NEWTORN MONROE, ONE WOULD BE STUPID TO MISTAKE YOU WITH THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THE LAWS OF GRAVITY !
I have his autograph on my Stratomacastor. I feel blessed. And also got to hang and talk to him on 5 other occasions as well. He always stuck around after his shows to meet any/everyone who was still wanting to meet/talk to him. He was a cool guy.
I was at a car show and a few people were crowded around talking . One guy was asking him questions . Then he asked if anyone recognized who he was . I thought he looked like Roy Orbison because he had short dark hair , sun glasses , and the same kind of coat Roy wore , and he was a musician .....so i said , roy orbison . I felt so stupid .....it was Dick Dale !
Dave Jacoby Dick Dale does rock....but the Bass Player really stole the show. The bassist displayed more talent and charisma than the rest of the band! LOL
He's playing a left handed guitar, left handed. However, the guitar is strung backwards with the high open E string at the top and the bass E string at the bottom. This seems odd.
lowell mccormick Left-handed players start out by turning a right-handed guitar upside down. Eventually, when they can afford or acquire a left-handed guitar, they have to string it upside down.
justfox2 Yeah I know what he means, but I've never seen a single leftie player playing a backwards strung leftie guitar. Thats just bizarre. A right handed guitar strung backwards is almost the same as a leftie, but the way this guy does it he might as well be playing a right handed guitar but leftie style. Still its unique, he might have just been going for the weird look to be different.
EVERY CHILD and Adult on this planet needs to listen to the Great Masterpiece Music Legend ...Pioneer Creator Dick Dale! Dick's Great Arabic Version of Misirlou is Major History!!!!
If he'd have never recorded another piece of music, this single performance entrenched Dick Dale's name in the annals of music history. A truly incredible example of "attitude", on par with Link Wray's "Rumble". Feel very lucky that we all lived in a time to know of this man's work. A great loss to us all, 3/16/2019. RIP Dick Dale and thank you for your contribution to music.
Dick Dale real name is Richard Anthony Monsour, born in Boston, lived in Quincy, MA, until 11th grade. Then his father got a job in Cali and the family moved. He was NOT born in Lebanon, even though he told people that for years. He was of Lebanese and Middle eastern descent and was fascinated by the sounds of that style of music, especially the odd scales that are quite different from traditional Western scales. Hence, the sound of "Misirlou," taken from a Greek ethnic song.
Actually The ORIGINAL song is FROM 1919 by the EGYPTIAN COMPOSITION and song know as "Bint Misr" NOT the 1st cover of the song in 1927 from the Greek Band: "Rempetiki Compania" song know as "Misirlou".
I saw Dick Dale 3 times, and each time was absolutely fantastic. I was also lucky enough to talk to him each time and can say without doubt what a sweet man and a true gentleman he was, very down to earth. He always made time for fans. The 1st time I talked to him I was pleasantly surprised at what a nice guy he was, so the 2nd time I wanted an autograph all I had was a stub from a Yankee game I saw weeks before, so he graciously signed it. I went and saw him again 4-5 years later, long story short, end of show go up and talk to him with the same stub, he saw his other signature, we had a laugh about it, and he signed the other side saying " Ya know, I remember signing a Yankee stub ".... I was stunned. Anyway, truly one of the greatest.
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. 💔. Legend doesn't begin to cover the immense influence this man had on not only surf music, but music in general. Virtuoso. Genius. Unmatched talent. His technique was so unique, guitarists still try to master it. RIP Dick Dale, you will be sorely missed.
Dear Dick. What a strange feeling. I have been listening to your songs all day and in the evening found out you are no longer with us. Thank you for giving us the Sound of Surf. We shall cherish your heritage. Mahalo brother
Rest In Peace Dick Dale (3/17/19) Your influence on some of my own music with The DyallTones is notable. Heaven's residents will be surfing on clouds from now on!
The most badass motherfucker to ever pick up the guitar. An influence on every subgenre of rock since. Dick Dale was the first heavy metal shredder. He was the first punk guitarist. His speed and energy blazed a path for everyone else. As a guitarist, i have the upmost respect for Dick Dale. Above everyone else. Even my personal hero, Johnny Ramone. Dick Dale blew down the door for everyone else. We're all merely dancing in the doorway. God bless the mighty Dick Dale. RIP good sir.
Man I’m so sorry to hear that.. I play the bass myself and I really like his simple but moving style of playing. I hope there are precision basses in heaven so he can keep on grooving.
Thanks. I was fortunate enough to Meet this Legend in Ferndale, Michigan a few years ago. He Rocked. He was nice enough to even autograph a poster of Himself Jammin'. R.I.P., Dick, You Rock and Everybody knows it.
Dick Dale way head of his time unique guitar 🎸 player and a unique sound from the 1950s into the 60s respect 👏 R.I.P sadly missed gone never forgotten from a Teddy Boy 🎶🎼📻🎶🚀🙏👏
I'd actually heard this song prior to "Pump It" but didn't know the name so thanks to "Pump It" I had a reference point from which to search since it sounded very familiar. Prefer this version more.
I mean yeah, but I'm just here to complain about the lack of people's knowledge about classic rock. I'll admit I don't know a lot of music, but in my opinion this generation's music is mostly boring shit done by people who can't be bothered to do the actual work. You know who didn't need autotune? Elvis, Billy Joel, John Lennon.
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That blonde lady was killing it
m a i k i n m a l a d o
And the guy behind her was fantasizing about bonking her in the bum.
@@Brinta3 well, she fine so... 😂😂😂
The blode lady looks like SHIT
@@blu3620 you look like shit 👌
@@maikinmalado3449 you are a simple ✊😔👌
Damn can’t believe it’s been 12 years since 1963...
alex gatpandan And only 4 years since 1778! Time flies!
Yep and Battle of Jutland is just a year ago. Darn
Can't believe it's been 3 years since 2234.
I vividly remember watching the Normans battle the English in 1066. Time flies.
I still remember the crusades from 8 years ago
Missirlou was first aired in Athens around 1927 by Dimitris Patrinos, a musician from Smyrni. The song refers to a Christian's love for a Muslim, a theme-taboo for that time and not only. The melody either existed before and was a familiar listening in the wider area of the Ottoman Empire, or it is a group work of Patrinos' band. The only sure thing is that Patrinos wrote the lyrics.
The international journey of the song began in 1930 by the US, with the release of Orthophonic album by Greek-American Titos Dimitriadis. In 1941 another Greek-American, musician Nikos Roubani changed his tone and melody, giving him the oriental sound he is known today. Make sure he has his name as composer of the song. As no one has disputed this right, Roubani appears as a composer of Misirllos all over the world except for Greece.
Immediately after the adaptation of Rubanis, the song became part of the repertoire of great swing-era orchestras such as Harry James, Woody Herman and Xavier Kughat. But the great success for Missirlou came in the early 1960s by Surf-Rock artists. At the beginning, guitarist Dick Dale, a Lebanese musician (Richard Mansour's real name), started playing a solo with a single string of guitar. He chose Missirlou to respond to the challenge. In 1963, the great The Beach Boys featured in Surfin 'USA a performance of Dale's song, making Missirlo part of the surf tradition as well as American pop culture.
In 1994, Missirlou in the performance of Dick Dale came back to the fore as he was listening to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, while in 2006 he became popular as the basis for the Black Eyed Peas, Pump it.
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nice clear concise info dude
Εξαιρετικός
thank you, michajim.
Mısırlı means egyptian in Turkish
@@AS-zs5qo And thats exactly what the song is talking about. A greek guys love (passion) for a muslim egyptian woman which way back (before world war 2 and even 1) greeks called Misirlou meaning woman from Misir=arabic for Egypt as we called cristian Egyptian women simply Egyptian. The word is probably taken while under Ottoman reign.
RIP Dick Dale. Pioneer of surf rock and one of the first Fender Strat guitarists. What a legend
NO- Buddy Holly was first Stratocaster superstar
@@kingplank he said "one of"
@@johnthurman1225 u kill him buddy.
kingplank actually read before you criticize
Actually James Burton is the father of the Stratocaster.
Dale’s signature guitar style: Most guitars are strung for a right-handed player. Dale, a lefty, originally picked up the guitar upside down so he could play naturally - without restringing the instrument, leaving the thicker strings on the bottom of the fret board. “[N]obody told me I was holding it wrong,”. “I just taught myself to play it like that. It was hard at first.”
As a guitar player, I caught that also and wondered if anyone else would notice.
How anyone can play anything but lead parts in this manner is very confusing to me
hendrix too?
A master at work - this was the first Surf tune I learnt. I was going to note Hendrix was also a lefty (self included) so it seems odd and confusing and does take getting used to, playing a RH Strat 'wrong side up', but when you consider that early UK users had enough probs getting RH ones so lefties just bit the bullet and played RH editions upside down.
That's where dual rows of tuners (aka Gibson and classic acoustic and jazz guitars style) pays off as you can easily just restring them to suit, but the single row tuners style means much more effort to mod to RH, probably doubles the new cost easily and it's still a comprise - so it's no surprise us lefties just adapted our methods to the guitar rather than pay silly LH guitar prices.
Most of mine are RH played ass ways up, but two I did manage to get LH'ers at reasonable cost (¹² string 59 Dantone and a Washburn 12 acoustic I modded to dual electric/electroacoustic using parallel outputs - and you still get a proper twangy acoustic sound for mic pickup).
Us lefties are like continental drivers in RHD countries, oddballs who never look comfortable but if you're good at something, you really beat the odds and excel at it. I guess it's a motivation and necessity driven thing.
@@JK-gm6kk probably lesser known maybe was the bass playing that was a blend of bass/rhythm and lead simultaneously and in various combos by one of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (signature sound in 'Shakin All Over), now that was another example many tried to copy and failed miserably. But, sometimes a failure generates it's own distinct style - as Wilco Johnson (of Dr Feelgood) developed accidentally trying to mimick that combo style from Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and failing badly as he described his attempt but created a signature sound that's still very distinctive.
It takes some doing to get such things down smoothly and repeatable, but when you get it - you get it, and as WJ proved, sometimes you get even when you don't get it.
Add in offhand playing, and an inverted instrument and then you're talking hard+++.
RIP Dale. Thank you for all your contributions to the history of guitar!
Agreed! E
Rest in Peace Dick Dale.
I will forever love your Misirlou.
RIP
Rock on
ROCK
&
ROLL
My grandfather was the original drummer in the band. They still use the original song for Pulp Fiction, and he is actually credited. Weird to think about.
That's so awesome!!!
That was awesome
Is his name Old Guy? That's really cool though!
Cool! Is it him that we see in the background?
@@artemhominum3252 I can't actually tell, but I don't think so. My grandfather was drafted for Vietnam, which I think is why he left the band.
How to turn a traditional, ages old levantine tune into a massive and ground-breaking success in the Western World. That's Dick Dale, ladies and gentlemen!
I'm not surprised, considering he was half Lebanese. Obviously influenced by hearing music from that side of his family while growing up.
It's Greek
@@jobhighschoolofcrosscity8430Sorry, but this is Middle Eastern music, not just Greek.
The original song was writen by a Greek singer and composer, in the 1920's. The song belongs to a Greek music kind, called ''rebetiko'' and was the underground of then.
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@@user-ut3db2ep8b Pretty widely known, but repetita juvant, as the Latins would say....
R.I.P. Dick Dale 1937 - 2019 😢
Farewell to the King of the Surf Guitar...
... but his memory will live on with Pulp Fiction. Tarantino has a great ear and has picked out some incredible tunes for his movies.
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So that's why this video showed up in my recommended. I didn't know, this is sad.
You mean to tell me I finally discovered the original and he died literally a few days ago? That's messed up man, still music is forever and I'm sure people will have this tasty jam in their head 50, 100, maybe even 500 years from now!
Vivió mucho yes
Sucks that so many people nowadays, think that the Black Eyed Peas came up with this tune.
+SylentEcho you may be wrong too mate.. this is the original /watch?v=LW6qGy3RtwY . Greek folk released in 1927.
Dick Dale took this song which is originally greek and released in 1927.
+Alexandros Livanos Yes, but Dick Dale made his own version. Black Eyed Peas just ripped this off. There has been multiple cases of Will.I.Am ripping off other music as well.
props to black eyed peas for giving a younger generation awareness to this song and this genre.
He didn't rip them off, he never took credit for it, its called a sample. Most hip hop song sample other songs
hey at least isnt forgotton!
He has died at age 81 yesterday Mar 17, 2019
God bless him
@Marvin Zachariah he drinks me?
Well,
I become full of romance when i start drinking and in love with every woman
R.i.p great artist didnt know he died
May he leave a great legacy
Amen
Dale had a big influence on EVH, just think Eruption.
MerkinMuffly RIP Dale and Van Halen!
check out our tribute to this song th-cam.com/video/GSRWLLFzMAE/w-d-xo.html
We hope you like it
Praise God people please he gived his only son for your sins and to show you how much you mean to him he want us he loves us so much Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen
Yep, he straight up did Eruption and transitioned into Misirlou
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Jimi Hendrix was also influenced by Dick Dale.
You'd be surprised at how underrated Dick Dale is, and how over looked surf rock is. I absolutely love this type of rock, it's still cool to this day, and I'm glad it plays in Typhoon Lagoon lol.
Sydney O'Bier The first 15 seconds in particular are awesome ! ;-O
Sydney O'Bier "You will never hear surf music again." J.H.
Im presently educating myself with the wonders of this sound. Anything you want to share/recommend?
Prill Jazz America oh god! The song Pipeline by the Chantays is legendary. You should do what I do, get on Pandora and use the surf rock channel you'll hear all kinds of songs on there.
+Sydney O'Bier thanks for the suggestion. Ill do that. I live in atlanta and we have a lot of record store in town and the surrounding area. I went to one and hit jackpot! There were sooooo many quality surf/garage rock compilations, with both rare and popular choices. I bought 7 to get started. Im so stoked!
I met dick dale when I was a kid growing up in San Diego and attending his concerts many times. He was a super nice guy, always spent time talking to us young gremmies, and happily autographed his record jackets we gave him. He played guitar so fast and furious he literally melted guitar pics. We would leap to the ground to try to collect them! He always nodded down and thanked us! His kind gestures meant the world to us
"gremmies" - lol, you ARE old! back when skateboards made w/ scrap 2x4s were all the thing and turning a downhill corner was a darn good trick
WOW
I spent a month as a teen summer of 65 hitching the west coast from BC to California. Saw Dick Dale in Balboa. What an incredible time to be alive, back when the usa was the land of milk and honey and cheap gas.. California was pure magic.
Did his picks start smoking?
better grimmies than hodads
The blonde chick is going crazy!
haha.. ryt
+Flavio Moraes Jr. That would explain all the crazy sons.
***** there are two kinds of people in the world: people who know they are crazy, and people who don't know they're crazy.
she got dat ass tho
Daisy Ridley that's someone's grandma
That opening will remain with me forever.
I met Dick Dale all by himself at a club in Woodcrest (near Riverside CA) when I walked in there and he was in the main room practicing all by himself. I didn't realize how famous he was. I was either 16-17-18 at the time. He took a few minutes to show me how neat his speaker was. How about that?
that is awesome
Uhm I met Synyster Gates and the Rev at a 2008 concert is that good enough
@Michael Smith It's rad. He's so down to earth he's downplayed. But here's a fact... DD taught Jimi Hendrix the slide. Jimi Idolized DD as Buddy Miles, Jimi Drummer did as well and hundreds of thousands of others. His style became the style of picking used by Heavy Metal and punk rock. You met a true legend.
well my dad touched me once, so haha
I was next to Hawking in a rollercoaster.
RIP to one of the greatest guitarists to ever walk this planet
Amen to that
Always loved surf guitar and this man pioneered it. Rest In Peace Dick Dale.
He didn't pioneer it. The Ventures and Shadows had put out music like this already back in 1960. But somebody started labeling this type of music "surf"--even though it had fuck-all to do with surfing and California--and Dick Dale was johnny-on-the-spot to crown himself king of the surf guitar.
Fuck Liverpool
ynwa
@@profd65 why r u crying about it?
Dick Dale certainly was a pioneer of the surf sound and theres probably only you who thinks otherwise
almost 60 years later, still a legendary riff..
Surf's always up in heaven. Incredible innovator of a uniquely American sound, taking it where no Stratocaster had gone before - via a Middle Eastern folk tune.
Proves the old saying about the truth being stranger than fiction, doesn't it?
SEAWINDOWS thought the tune was Greek or at worse from Anatolia
Yeah I believe it’s a greek traditional song
th-cam.com/video/LW6qGy3RtwY/w-d-xo.html the original
Just for you knowledge, this is not a middle-eastern folk tune. This is a Greek song!
Wait what? He died recently? I wondered why this vid came up as recommended.
A master of his craft. Influenced many guitar players. He will be missed.
I never heard either..til now...
There goes another Great - I never got to see. 😢
he died on a big day trying to surf the pipeline
@@tundratortoise9622 I feel your pain about missing a great. I really do. Any artist you like over 50 years of age playing near you, do not hesitate, buy your ticket. You just never know. I was perhaps 19 or 20, and on whim, drove 2.5 hours to see Elvis Presley. A few months later he was dead. The one time I went against my own advice (in the '90s) and passed on seeing Frank Sinatra. Sure enough, he soon passed. These days I go see anyone. All of them. We only go around the Sun so many times.
My hands hurt just listening to this piece
And if you tried playing his guitar strung with those bridge cables they'd really be hurting.
mortensen1961 I play this song with 11s and it's painful enough
Amateurs, i played this piece with 13s
Uh... I thought you said 11s...
It s not that hard if u can pick fast.
Look at them dancing, they look so happy
This song reminds me of middle eastern songs a lot.
It's in a Middle Eastern scale (double harmonic minor).
It's based on a Middle Eastern tune -- sort of.
+Matias Maedia Its based on a Greek tune
Sandro Kovalev A Greek tune inspired by Middle Eastern music :)
its a greek rebetiko so its indeed middle eastern...
If you say, "The Black Eyed Peas brought me hear" you deserve a black eye.
and some english lessons maybe
IS this ok? The Beach boys brought me here?
there's nothing wrong with people finding older music they like through sampling by newer artists
VS Sanhueza I fell in love with Greek music,by going to Tarpon Springs,Fl.
Newton Monroe Stop telling me how to spell ,you grammar Nazi !
I prefer to use lower case letters you fucking moron, BECAUSE DOING THIS WOULD GET ME INTO TROUBLE WITH OTHER POSTERS.. I WHY DON'T YOU GO TO A SCHOOL WHERE THEY TEACH MANNERS,YOU CLEARLY NEED SOME YOU NITIWT... WITH A USER NAME LIKE NEWTORN MONROE, ONE WOULD BE STUPID TO MISTAKE YOU WITH THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THE LAWS OF GRAVITY !
R.I.P. Dick Dale. Playing this for the 5th time this evening in his honor
I have his autograph on my Stratomacastor. I feel blessed. And also got to hang and talk to him on 5 other occasions as well. He always stuck around after his shows to meet any/everyone who was still wanting to meet/talk to him. He was a cool guy.
Stratomacastor xD
Ah yes the stratomacastor
I was at a car show and a few people were crowded around talking . One guy was asking him questions . Then he asked if anyone recognized who he was . I thought he looked like Roy Orbison because he had short dark hair , sun glasses , and the same kind of coat Roy wore , and he was a musician .....so i said , roy orbison . I felt so stupid .....it was Dick Dale !
Awesome story
Dick Dale rocks it, of course. That's what he was put on this world to do. But the bassist looks like he's just happy to be there.
Dave Jacoby I think the bassist looks as if he's on fucking luuudes......
Dave Jacoby Dick Dale does rock....but the Bass Player really stole the show. The bassist displayed more talent and charisma than the rest of the band! LOL
I was gonna say the same thing. It looks and sounds as though he has only 5, maybe 5 1/2 different notes throughout the song. Poor guy.
R.I.P to a great guitar player , and son of Quincy Ma. my home town. Godspeed Dick Dale.
Dire que c'est devenue l'une des musiques les plus connues dans le monde entiers même encore aujourd'hui !
RIP Dick Dale, surf's up in heaven!
So sad another Legend has passed. RIP Dick Dale.
Speed metal from back in the day! 🤘
Metal was partly birthed from Surf Rock. It seems ironic to credit the 'mother' as the 'son'
Listening to this and Mayhem's Freezing Moon is just amazingly similar. No wonder there are loads of Trve Kvlt Surf Rock videos on TH-cam
@@juuul_23 tremolo guitar picking slides over many genres. It all started with surf rock
I'm not even kidding this shit goes hard even to this day
Rest in peace. You are big legend of rock
You will never die
Greetings from Czech republic
He's playing a left handed guitar, left handed. However, the guitar is strung backwards with the high open E string at the top and the bass E string at the bottom. This seems odd.
lowell mccormick Yeah I noticed that, its mad.
lowell mccormick Left-handed players start out by turning a right-handed guitar upside down. Eventually, when they can afford or acquire a left-handed guitar, they have to string it upside down.
Mark Hughes
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***** its mean that left-handed players usually staring playing right-handed guitar and they getting used to backward strung.
justfox2 Yeah I know what he means, but I've never seen a single leftie player playing a backwards strung leftie guitar. Thats just bizarre. A right handed guitar strung backwards is almost the same as a leftie, but the way this guy does it he might as well be playing a right handed guitar but leftie style.
Still its unique, he might have just been going for the weird look to be different.
RIP Dick, this tune and all your work will always be remembered ❤️
EVERY CHILD and Adult on this planet needs to listen to the Great Masterpiece Music Legend ...Pioneer Creator Dick Dale!
Dick's Great Arabic Version of Misirlou is Major History!!!!
R.I.P Dick Dale. My mother used to dance on this song.
Thank you for making her and all of us happy ♡
If he'd have never recorded another piece of music, this single performance entrenched Dick Dale's name in the annals of music history. A truly incredible example of "attitude", on par with Link Wray's "Rumble". Feel very lucky that we all lived in a time to know of this man's work. A great loss to us all, 3/16/2019. RIP Dick Dale and thank you for your contribution to music.
A true pioneer, and the song still rocks to this day. R.I.P.
Gotta love the blonde who lets it all out. :-)
For the band, that's called "inspiration".
She's probably 90 now
@@bryanweisid still hit
RIP Dick Dale I am glad I saw several of your shows before you passed! A true legend and pioneered surf music!
RIP and thanks for all the music Mr. Dale.
R.I.P. Sir. So happy I got to see you at Max's Kansas City back in the 90s.
Running in the 90's lol
I started surfing in 63 and remember this band playing in Redondo beach in the 80s.
Feel very fascinating with that auntie's twist dance..
Oh yes ! A guitarist everyone can appreciate, Dick Dale. Rest in peace brother.
Dick Dale real name is Richard Anthony Monsour, born in Boston, lived in Quincy,
MA, until 11th grade. Then his father got a job in Cali and the family moved. He was
NOT born in Lebanon, even though he told people that for years. He was of
Lebanese and Middle eastern descent and was fascinated by the sounds of that
style of music, especially the odd scales that are quite different from traditional
Western scales. Hence, the sound of "Misirlou," taken from a Greek ethnic song.
Actually The ORIGINAL song is FROM 1919 by the EGYPTIAN COMPOSITION and song know as "Bint Misr" NOT the 1st cover of the song in 1927 from the Greek Band: "Rempetiki Compania" song know as "Misirlou".
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what's on my mind when i listen to this: pulp fiction, taxi, surfing xD
Dude you " oh yeah yeah"ed us before oh yeah yeah existed. (Yes ik profile picture change even with old comments)
Lol
We are listening from the future 2024 ....❤
All seen is eternal as is Mankind, God. All known is eternal. Life is living the same day eternal. The senses are eternal. Go ahead prove this wrong.
May he rest in peace.... and thanks for the brilliant music!!
Dick Dale, one of the best guitar players EVER. Rest in peace!!
RIP, Dick. I got to see him back in 2007. A legend ahead of his time.
I’m learning to play this myself, he makes it look so easy 😂
RIP a legend
Thanks for all the great music
RIP Dick Dale.
Great sound and groove. Very influential and motivating during our Surf Culture in Southern California.
Surfs Up...RIP
Dick Dale, an Original Surfing Rocker, or Rocking Surfer! Thanks for the tunes, and Rest In Peace.
I saw Dick Dale 3 times, and each time was absolutely fantastic. I was also lucky enough to talk to him each time and can say without doubt what a sweet man and a true gentleman he was, very down to earth. He always made time for fans. The 1st time I talked to him I was pleasantly surprised at what a nice guy he was, so the 2nd time I wanted an autograph all I had was a stub from a Yankee game I saw weeks before, so he graciously signed it. I went and saw him again 4-5 years later, long story short, end of show go up and talk to him with the same stub, he saw his other signature, we had a laugh about it, and he signed the other side saying " Ya know, I remember signing a Yankee stub ".... I was stunned. Anyway, truly one of the greatest.
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. 💔. Legend doesn't begin to cover the immense influence this man had on not only surf music, but music in general. Virtuoso. Genius. Unmatched talent. His technique was so unique, guitarists still try to master it. RIP Dick Dale, you will be sorely missed.
Check out Mark Speer on his Strat playing Dick's technique in Khruangbin's song "Maria Tambien". It's outstanding! Dick Dale would be proud!
RIP sadly passed away last night. His influence on Surf Music and California can never be understated.
RIP Mr Dale. Thanks for the amazing music!
Dear Dick. What a strange feeling. I have been listening to your songs all day and in the evening found out you are no longer with us. Thank you for giving us the Sound of Surf. We shall cherish your heritage. Mahalo brother
RIP to an incredible and innovative musical talent.
Can’t get over this song! It’s amazing!
I love how the musicians are swinging from left to right for the whole song.
I watched this very video many years back and the top comment made me chuckle
"and the band sways and sways...."
RIP Dick Dale, the King of Surf Guitar. You inspired so many, farewell and rest easy.
Rest In Peace Dick Dale (3/17/19)
Your influence on some of my own music with The DyallTones is notable.
Heaven's residents will be surfing on clouds from now on!
RIP Dick Dale. A unique talent and a true guitar legend.
Shes well into it... twisting away just like she did last year!!!
R.I.P. Dick. Thanks for all those legendary tunes.
The most badass motherfucker to ever pick up the guitar. An influence on every subgenre of rock since. Dick Dale was the first heavy metal shredder. He was the first punk guitarist. His speed and energy blazed a path for everyone else. As a guitarist, i have the upmost respect for Dick Dale. Above everyone else. Even my personal hero, Johnny Ramone. Dick Dale blew down the door for everyone else. We're all merely dancing in the doorway. God bless the mighty Dick Dale. RIP good sir.
I love the blonde girl twisting.
She would be pushing 80 now!
If she was 30 then now she is 86
Yep me too
It's so Miraculous that they made that kind of music masterpiece at that time. RIP Dick Dale
RIP Dick. Thanks for the music!!!
The bass player in this music video, Brian, just passed away. He was a good friend. Miss him.
Man I’m so sorry to hear that..
I play the bass myself and I really like his simple but moving style of playing.
I hope there are precision basses in heaven so he can keep on grooving.
Practically all of this song is bass...
Frederik Høyrup ?
@@rolux4853 That is currently my name...
Frederik Høyrup No, I wanted to ask you why you think everything in this song is bass?
RIP Dick Dale
What. A. Legend. Surf Rock master!
killer piece that made surfing history .... and continues to do it !!!!!!!!
R.I.P Dick Dale, you were amazing.
One of the few guitar legends I actually saw live, in Melbourne, Fl. God bless guitar-driven rock!
Marty Smith must have been at Lou's Blues?...Lou is a buddy of mine,Rob called me from the club while DD was rockin...cool huh?
Rest In Peace to the king, the legend, Mr. Dick Dale. Rock on, brother.
Thanks. I was fortunate enough to Meet this Legend in Ferndale, Michigan a few years ago. He Rocked. He was nice enough to even autograph a poster of Himself Jammin'. R.I.P., Dick, You Rock and Everybody knows it.
RIP Dick Dale... Thanks for the great songs and playing!
Спасибо, Дик! Ты помогал нам своей гитарой. Светлая память.
You R.I.P. up there you ancient Axe-Man....'cause down here.... You-Will-Forever-Rock.
I feel grateful that i saw this man live on a festival in Holland in 1996
RIP. The old heroes just die, and leave us alone down here. Sad...
Thats right sir 😕
RIP LEGEND! One of the greatest lefty’s to ever pick up an axe!
Wyatt Brownell He was left handed?
Wyatt Brownell I !!! Even better!!!
As a lefty guitar player myself I definitely noticed that he's a fellow southpaw! Awesome.
RIP, Dick Dale. You were pioneer and an influencer.
Thay is one cool piece of music.
Rest in Peace, Dick!! You will be missed 😢. Rock on, legend!!
Rest in piece Dale, we will never forget you🙏❤
that was hardcore back in those days! the dirtiest shit in town! raw!
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optimat prime thanks for sharing.
Yeah, Dick's band looks ready to kick some ass. At the next chess tournament 😂
Agreed. 1962 or whatever.. didn’t have this heavyness
Link Wray was the dirtiest shit. How about getting your instrumental hit banned from radios out of fear for riots?
Dick Dale way head of his time unique guitar 🎸 player and a unique sound from the 1950s into the 60s respect 👏 R.I.P sadly missed gone never forgotten from a Teddy Boy 🎶🎼📻🎶🚀🙏👏
It's a god damn travesty that some people nowadays love "Pump it!" but would just give you a blank stare if you asked them if they liked Misirlou.
I'd actually heard this song prior to "Pump It" but didn't know the name so thanks to "Pump It" I had a reference point from which to search since it sounded very familiar. Prefer this version more.
Do you have a blank stare when I tell you to look up Tetos Demetriades' version? The actual original Misirlou.
I mean yeah, but I'm just here to complain about the lack of people's knowledge about classic rock. I'll admit I don't know a lot of music, but in my opinion this generation's music is mostly boring shit done by people who can't be bothered to do the actual work. You know who didn't need autotune? Elvis, Billy Joel, John Lennon.
Blank stare from over here. Thanks for this, just looked it up. Every day's a school day :)
"Nowadays"
Lol, most people nowadays haven't even heard of the black eyed peas. Too old for them.
YOU’LL ALWAYS BE KING OF THE SURF GUITAR
this is the sound of BOUZOUKI , west still try to discover ...
Two rhythm guitarists is over-kill. When I saw him in 2001 and 2002, he had a bassist and drummer and nothing more. They were very good gigs.
old but gold