{"id":793925,"date":"2019-03-18T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=809492"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:39:34","slug":"flashback-see-dick-dale-ride-pulp-fiction-wave-with-thrilling-miserlou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-see-dick-dale-ride-pulp-fiction-wave-with-thrilling-miserlou\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: See Dick Dale Ride \u2018Pulp Fiction\u2019 Wave With Thrilling \u2018Miserlou\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wearing his trademark headband and a leather jacket, Dick Dale<\/a> played a thrilling rendition of his hit \u201cMiserlou\u201d \u2014 the theme music for Pulp Fiction<\/a><\/em> \u2014 on the U.K. music variety show Jools\u2019 Annual Hootenanny<\/em> in 1995. The guitarist, who died on Sunday<\/a>, shakes his ponytail, he hollers and he grits his teeth as he commands the tune\u2019s breakneck tempo up until its bluesy final notes.<\/p>\n

The song is best known as kicking in as Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer rob a diner and Plummer holds up her gun and threatens, \u201cAny of you fucking pricks move, and I\u2019ll execute every-motherfucking-last one of you!\u201d As Rolling Stone<\/em> previously reported, the song itself is a Mediterranean folk tune whose title translates to \u201cEgyptian Girl\u201d (or, as author Alan di Perna once noted, more accurately it means \u201cNon-Christian Girl.\u201d) Dale released it as a single in 1962, but it failed to make the charts at the time, instead reaching a dedicated cult of music fans (including the Beach Boys, who followed Dale\u2019s lead with a surfy version of the song<\/a> on their 1963 LP, Surfin\u2019 USA<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving \u2018Misirlou\u2019 as your opening credit, it\u2019s just so intense,\u201d Pulp Fiction<\/em> filmmaker Quentin Tarantino said in 1994. \u201cIt just says you\u2019re watching an epic, you\u2019re watching a big, ol\u2019 movie. . . It just throws down a gauntlet that the movie now has to live up to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of what makes the song so incredible is the sheer brute force with which Dale plays \u2014 especially live, like in the Jool<\/em> clip. \u201cI\u2019m not some great guitarist like the Satrianis and the Van Halens,\u201d Dale told the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> in 1993. \u201cI never went to school and learned music theory. When I play, I go, \u2018This sounds like a tiger; this sounds like a volcano; this sounds like the lip of the water coming over my head when I\u2019m surfing.\u2019 My bass player says, \u2018When I stand behind you, I don\u2019t just see your arms moving, I see your shoulders shuddering, your back straining.\u2019 That\u2019s because I put all my physical force into my playing. I take people for a ride on a non-chemical wave of sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wearing his trademark headband and a leather jacket, Dick Dale played a thrilling rendition of his hit \u201cMiserlou\u201d \u2014 the theme music for Pulp Fiction \u2014 on the U.K. music variety show Jools\u2019 Annual Hootenanny in 1995. The guitarist, who died on Sunday, shakes his ponytail, he hollers and he grits his teeth as he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:51:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}