[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by vienna

I posted a clip of Dick Dale performing Misrilou in the thread about his passing and it brought to mind a version of the song predating Dale's version that was also very popular. In the 50s and 60s, there was a popular style of music known as "Loungire Music", which was mainly instrumental, and is sometimes referred to as "mood music'; a subset of "Lounge" was "Exotica", music based on styles from parts of the world such as the Middle East, South America, etc. A lot of the music of this type was pretty cheesy and about as authentic as the Disneyland Jungle Cruise. This clip is by a musician/bandleader/composer named Martin Denny whose Exotica compositions and adaptations were hugely popular;

<O>

I had posted Misrilou from Dick Dale and it failed to open here for whatever reason. I instead left Dick Dale's version of Pipeline, featuring, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Dick Dale was good friends with Leo Fender, creator of the Fender Tele-castor and Stratocastor. Like Jimi Hendrix, Dick played a right handed guitar, left handed,restringing the guitar to make it work. Leo Fender at some point started making lefty guitars for left handed players. Leo also built a large number of Amplifier and guitar combinations only to see Dick Blow up the amps.

Quote:
Not long before recording Surfers’ Choice, Dale was introduced to guitar- and amp-maker Leo Fender, who gave Dale a Stratocaster guitar and asked him to stress-test his latest 30-watt amp and speaker set—which Dale promptly blew up. More testing followed. Dale liked to brag that he ruined nearly 50 of Fender’s amp-speaker sets, and that a few actually exploded into flames. Eventually, Fender came up with the 100-watt Fender Dual Showman amp and ran it through a fifteen-inch expanded-cabinet speaker; this sonic-monster combo later became the hardware cornerstone for metal rock.

https://www.fretboardjournal.com/fea...royer-of-amps/





My question is, did Dick Dale influence another group, The Ventures or was it the other way around ? The Ventures also had that twangy, southern California sound.