Originally Posted by Janszoon

Interesting little tidbit about the King of Surf Guitar: he wasn't from anywhere near California. He grew up clear on the other side of the country in Quincy, Massachusetts.

I saw him in concert back in the late 90s and he was still rocking pretty hard for a guy in his 60s. The three most memorable things about show for me were: the fact that he actually played that "Misirlou" trumpet solo himself on a trumpet handed to him by a stagehand in the middle of the song, the multi-song flamenco set he played in the middle of the show, and the fact that my friend and I were able to talk to him briefly after the show. He seemed like a nice guy, and definitely pretty wacky.