Dick Dale Fansite

Are you Passionate about music? Do you like the movie “Pulp Fiction?” Dick Dale, who wrote and performed “Misirlou,” the opening musical score in the Quentin Tarantino classic film Pulp Fiction certainly is.

In a recent interview with another reporter he was quoted as saying; “You shouldn’t even be writing this story if you haven’t heard me play live. You can’t write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.”

Back in the early 1960’s Dick Dale and the Del Tones had a huge following in Southern California. Dale says he used to pay the Beach Boys $50.00 a show to open for him and his Del Tones. Dick Dale was known as the “King of Surf Guitar,” a title that was bestowed on him after his release of “Let’s Go Trippin’” in 1961. While groups like Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys were singing ice cream and candy songs about cars and girls in Bikinis, Dale’s music was, and still is driving rhythms all about anger, patience and frustration. Some of his recent releases include “Tribal Thunder” and “Unknown Territory.”

Disk Dale playing Misirlou in 1996: