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♪ Watch the live clip: “Miserlou” performed by Dick Dale and his Del-Tones at the Harmony Park Ballroom, Anaheim, California, 1962, at: https://t.co/3TkbwAAIKD Footage courtesy of @Ina_audiovisuel #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on February 18, 2021.

“The style of music I developed, to me at the time, was the feeling I got when I was out there eating it on the waves. It was that good rambling feeling I got when I was locked in a tube with white water caving in over my head.” —#DickDale #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on February 18, 2021.

“Surf’s Up! Instrumental Rock ‘n’ Roll” is on view post-security in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/ojjYamHVLU #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on February 09, 2021.

In 1958, The Tielman Brothers released "Rock Little Baby of Mine," a vocal tune that was the first Dutch rock 'n' roll single. Watch the group performing "Rock It Up" on television in 1959: https://t.co/7uMkIgRDan #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on February 09, 2021.

Instrumental rock groups proliferated around the world from the 1950s through the 1960s. In the Netherlands, Dutch-Indonesian rockers The Tielman Brothers were part of a hybrid rock 'n' roll and instrumental rock genre known as Indo Rock. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on February 09, 2021.

See more of The Ventures in “Surf’s Up! Instrumental Rock ‘n’ Roll,” online at: https://t.co/ojjYamZxau #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on January 29, 2021.

The Fender Jazzmaster displayed in #InstrumentalSurf is from a commemorative series released by Fender in 1996 and was Don Wilson’s main guitar for The Ventures’ 1998 tour of Japan. This tweet was posted on January 29, 2021.

While the British Invasion rocked the United States in the mid 1960s, “Ventures-mania” swept through Japan, where The Ventures outsold The Beatles in record sales by approximately two-to-one. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on January 29, 2021.

See more of Dick Dale and his Del-Tones in “Surf’s Up! Instrumental Rock ‘n’ Roll,” online at: https://t.co/ojjYamHVLU #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on January 22, 2021.

During the summer of 1961, #DickDale & his Del-Tones played dances known as “stomps” to thousands of teenagers in Southern California. As crowds grew, Dale and his group played at increasingly higher volumes, causing amplifiers to malfunction on a regular basis. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on January 22, 2021.

See #DuaneEddy’s Gretsch 6120 guitar and more online in “Surf’s Up! Instrumental Rock ‘n’ Roll” at https://t.co/ojjYamHVLU #InstrumentalSurf #SurfRock #InstrumentalRock This tweet was posted on January 13, 2021.

For the unique sound on “Reber-Rouser,” #DuaneEddy played his guitar through a DeArmond tremolo effect and a high-powered Magnatone amplifier, and the guitar track was fed into a speaker and microphone installed in a 2000-gallon water tank as an echo chamber. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on January 13, 2021.