Dick Dale King of the Stomp Miserlou

[HckyWavz]

Most definitely Harmony Park in Anaheim on Broadway just west of Manchester

[Wayde07]

Great music.

Funny comment on the crowd lookin like popcorn.

I guess 50 years from now, they will be laughing at our moves aswell ?!!

[111sienna]

the other comments are correct, that's Harmony Park Ballroom.....i was a regular, we used to hitchhike there every other weekend.....besides if i remember right didn't they make you wear a tie at The rendevous (sp ?)  Dave myers and the Disciples were a regular attraction, and can't forget my favorites....Eddie and the Showmen it wasn't cheap to get in either....i think $1.25 lol

[HckyWavz]

@111sienna You HAD to wear a tie at the Rendezvous after Dick Dale left.But you are right this Is Harmony Park

[rjsurferdude]

looks like harmony park

[Krushurpants]

thats a 60's mosh pit right there

[pseudo20]

@Krushurpants lol.. they're not goin wild they're just...bobbing. And i'd be glad to bob alongside them. :-)

[NerdsKrew]

thus deathcore was born from this... wow

[surfstomp]

I think it was at Harmony Park in Anaheim. The Rendevous Ballroom was bigger and had a second level. Harmony Park had a heater in the far back corner and Dick Dale used to go back a play the trumpet part from under it. The heater shows up in this film.

[electrostatic1]

Heh, proto-moshing...

[kingster911]

This is practically the most rockin' scene ever of these times that I've seen. This is like a punk show lol

[123mrochoa]

This kind of dancing and teenage freedom was popular in Orange County ,even into the early seventies,fortunally I was there,and yes that was at Harmony park in Anahein,right of Lincoln Ave.We were ahead of the Punk scene,those places got real hot and everybody had a blast,in the late sixties we were getting high and rockin to the tunes by a lot of great California bands!!!

[drmarconi]

I agree... this is NOT San Francisco '63, it is Southern California! This is South of L.A. Southern California hair, dance style AND clothing!

[evertonofx]

Muito engraçado os caras pulando retinho pra cima ....kkkk

[lehman527]

This film was taken at the Rendevous Ballroom in Newport Beach California. I am in the film as is my sister, I believe around 62 or 63. . What a great thrill to see what fun we had....Good times...even though we look rather silly jumping up and down...

[vulpis61]

no, lehman *lol*

there s nothing to see about "silly jumping"---its a pogoing punk-crowd nearly 20 years before the Punk-explosion started...GREAT

[Secta13]

jajaja mira como saltan!!

[FelixLeeArtist]

Kids are going for it.

[poolfarm2]

Amazing, it's like they haven't yet quite invented a dance for the tune yet!

[nogginthefroggin]

Great footage, and splendid random pogoing.  Anyone know if this is a French audience, or American. I'm just a bit confused by the description "Live in SF" from a French show.

[evasuperstar]

The TV show "Age Tendre Et Tetes De Bois" was broadcated at the French TV in July, 3, 1963, but it was shot in San Francisco earlier.

[nogginthefroggin]

Hi, thanks.

[UToobCrazy]

It was shot at Harmony park in anahiem Calif. in 1962/3, This is one song of 6 that were on the movie. there is one other song you can see on u tube greenback dollar .

[nogginthefroggin]

Thanks, just had a look at greenback dollar, another great tune.

[sandreasson]

Somebody else says Rendevous, but I think this series is Harmony. Look at size of stage--Rendevous was a larger room.

I was at both. Saw Dick

Dale several times, at Harmony.

At Rendevous, say Mongo Santamaria play "Watermelon Man."

[ObeyVonZip]

I wrote Mr Dale about how when I bought my new van back in August the first thing played over the cd player's speakers was Miserlou. Broke it in right! He e mailed back with a laugh and a thank you. He's the BEST!

[Karen56]

Yes - from Pulp Fiction and Dick Dale is still performing even though he has been ill. His son plays too!!

[guitarmaniax]

This is GREAT - historically speaking it is significant viewing - but its not LOUD enough!

[beseeingyou6]

look at the dude on the left at 2:05.

what a jump!

[eriklovesoats]

hahahaha, he was timing it as the camera swung around towards him, the attention whore!

[streetglidemike9]

d-d is a trip even NOW

[zenbrenzz]

Wasn't this in Pulp Fiction?

[djsundancekid]

Of course it was!!!

[eloseddie]

For all you whipper snappers' info....Thats a surfer stomp...

[HateToBeMe1982]

is this the most primal form of pogo were looking at here?

[djsundancekid]

Love this song.The guitar is very original and the riff is smashing. a masterpiece

[EuclidianProposition]

wow no one can really dance.

[ottdog1952]

Wow! EuclidianProposition does not know how to use punctuation.

I'd like to see you dance to that tune, smart derrière.

[EuclidianProposition]

I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that punctuation mattered on Youtube.

Unlike you, I was just leaving a quick comment on the actual video. I was not trying to make a snide remark about someone else who had viewed it.

I can dance to this tune, and I would like to see you try while making more snide remarks. Unlike you, I would say such things to your face and not through the safety of a keyboard.

Now for an actual comment about Dick Dale:

[EuclidianProposition]

The opening riff on the live version of Miserlou is amazing. The lack of resolution in the first twenty or thirty seconds is overwhelming. When the main theme comes in finally, it sounds even better and harder than the studio recording.

[ottdog1952]

Sorry, EuclidianProp. You can use punctuation correctly after all. I wish I could apologize to your face (and I would not feel unsafe doing it either). Maybe you can post a clip of you dancing to this tune. I'd like to see that.

[EuclidianProposition]

What is your fucking problem? It's only the internet.

[ottdog1952]

First, let me say that I absolutely like the video and Dick Dale's tune.

Second, I do not have a problem. I apologized for having misinterpreted your comment. I thought you were dissing the people dancing in the video while it was obvious to me that the place was jam-packed - i.e. they had hardly any room to dance - and that it was, in my opinion, not a very danceable tune. I don't quite understand why you are still upset but, if it helps, sorry... once more.

[EuclidianProposition]

A fine video, indeed. I wonder if moshing came about as a result of packed crowds like this.

[JohnnySplattWadd]

Such clean-cut looking kids (now a bunch of old geezers) and DD's Elvis look. Those were the days...

[toadabc]

You are so right! How we survived without piercings, tats, and text messages, I will never know. God how I long for those days. We didn't know how good we had it.

[MS85ToyotaCrown]

We had the Del-Tones in Australian to, the only band I've ever been to see.

[Ramentastic]

this was awesome in pulp fiction

[RtGchuck]

lol no

[johnneedslove]

punks current form? lol

sorry um, no. punk was as a scene. punk is inside you. the mucic has already been made so go collect teh old records.

punk? yeah blink 182 or whatever david geffen band du jour etc. hahaha fuck that.

[jaymusseato]

punks been pogoin since the early sixties

[stupullen]

here is a bit of trivial whatever ...

if it were not for surf music PUNK would not be in it's current form...

Dick Dale is the inventor of surf music and the inventor of ear-bleed loud (before DD it was soft)...

groovy version of miserlou !

peace out!

[titsmagee9999]

That was almost like a punk rock concert.

[Theaterkunst]

minha musica!

[wombiezombie]

i knew that sid vicious did not event the freakin' pogo! This is a decade+ before unk Rock and these kids are pogoing!!!! Awesome!

[xwsftassell]

Nice.

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