Dick Dale was a guitarist from the USA whose rapid picking, heavy attack, and reverb-driven sound helped define surf rock. His version of Misirlou transformed an Eastern Mediterranean melody associated with Tetos Demetriades into an electric instrumental landmark, later made globally recognizable through Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. His tag links guitar technique, rock instrumental music, and the way older melodies can be radically recast by amplification.