On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 07:33:40PM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote: > > On Friday, Jan 10, 2003, at 19:03 Europe/London, Paul Mison wrote: > > >Or Misirilou, from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Anything by Dick Dale, > >in fact. > > > >At least, I think of it as surf music. Maybe I've been wrong all these > >years. > > That's surf guitar or steel guitar isn't it? > > The Beach Boys is surf music.
There's a reason I've been tossing around the word "instrumental". :) The Beach Boys are probably more accurately described as "Beach Music". Dick Dale is, practically by definition, surf music (although some of his later work is questionable in this respect). Miserlou is probably the best tune to use as an example of instrumental surf, since it's popular because of its use in Pulp Fiction. There are certainly some blurry lines here, but Miserlou, Pipeline, and the like aren't any of them. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ ...there is NO WAY I can venture out of the house to get coffee before I have coffee. - Vertilgo
