Sunday, January 08, 2006

Misirlou

Interesting story on NPR about the history of Misirlou, one of Dick Dale's surf guitar masterpieces. Most people will recognize the tune from Pulp Fiction.

I always thought that Misirlou had an exotic sound. Dale first heard the melody as a child; Lebanese relatives would play Misirlou on the Middle Eastern lute called the oud. Dale created his version as a challenge to create a tune in which he plays a single string of his guitar. According to the NPR story, the original melody has Greek and Turkish roots.
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