Wray is every bit as crucial to the history of Rock as Hendrix or the Beatles, - really can't be overstated.It's crazy that he isn't more widely understood and appreciated. The epitome of cool, never surpassed, first and foremost, a true and rare individual.
Link Wray- THE Man, and not even in the Rock & Roll HoF, absolutely criminal. "Rumble" should be in every guitar players repertoire. Also check out "Big City After Dark" and "The Shadow Knows" , 2 more Link classics.
Link Wray's 1st single Rumble was in 1958. It can be argued that it is the 1st Heavy Medal, Hard Rock, and Punk song. He doesn't get the credit because he played the type of music to fit the feeling of the song. That is what a rumble sounded like to him, angry punks fighting. His image was Rock-A-Billy and he never changed his image to fit the music he played
@@wingsofpegasus I thought for many years that Elvis was the King of Rock and Roll , and then I heard from a black man , he thought Chuck Bery was the King of R&R . But I now must have to admit that the King of Rock and Roll was actually Link Ray. An American Indian with one-lung lost as a US military vet and being the original BAD-ASS rock guitarist for so many things and sounds , that is cool for me. Surf that chit , Link ;) That he is singing here,with one lung, and also playing bad ass guitar about 25 years later. Yea, no doubt. Now, there is no doubt, the Queen of Rock and Roll, was/is Little Richard, I will fight anybody over that definition, LOL
You are on point. Somehow this guy was forgotten by FM radio and everything thereafter. Dibs to The Yardbirds, I always thought they were the pioneers....WAS I WRONG. This guy was an entire decade earlier, and even Jimmy Page was heavily inspired by Link Wray and his Rambler solo.
One of my favs. Link had it all. Plus that voice withone lung. Who doesn’t love RUMBLE. He always had awesome cats in the band and cats that really wanted to play with him. Mind he was a lot older than most of the guitar gods of the time
This is another first time listen for me... There's so many artist I have not been exposed to yet until finding your channel. to be really honest when I first heard his voice it wasn't impressive. And then when I saw the information and heard what you had said about how he lost a lung in the military... wow! Then I felt really bad about my first impression after hearing that because singing with both lungs is so physically challenging, let alone one lung! God bless him!... and the groove of the song is very cool!.... thanks Fil!....☮❤🤘
I had the pleasure of meeting Link Wray in 1997 after his sound check before a Nashville club gig. The sound man asked him if he had any special instructions. Link pointed his hand toward upwards and said. "If do this turn it up, it's just rock&roll"--the coolest of the cool and one nicest of the nice
In 1958, Wray's first hit, "Rumble," was banned in New York and Boston for fear it would incite teenage gang violence...I was looking at a vid with Jimmy Page at his home and he decides to play a record and of all of the hundreds of records he had ,he picks Rumble and talks about the sound of it and you can tell it is a true old fav of his...
Having a link ray moment, put at least a dozen likes on my spotify, hundeds of brilliant songs by this man, great breakdown, full appreciation, and charley charles from the blockheads, what a treat, i guess this band was knocked up when link came to visit/tour? thanks fil.
I have always loved Link Wray. My dad had a few 45s (yep, I'm old) That I use to listen to when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I love in the documentary "It Might Get Loud" watching Jimmy Paige turn into a teenager playing air guitar to the Link Wray classic "Rumble".
WOWEE! Thanks for featuring him! He is quite unique. He did influence many guitarists. They have nominated him for the rock and roll hall of fame a couple of times. His early stuff is also great.
Link Wray was a phenomenal guitarist. Thanks for another great analysis video. May he rest in peace. I also heard that that late Keith Relf, of the Yardbirds, had only one lung. He was asthmatic, but still did manage to perform, sing and play harmonica. He lost his lung during the Eric Clapton period of the band. It would be cool if you could do an analysis video featuring the Yardbirds. Cheers!
I saw Link play in San Francisco years ago. He was in his late 70's I think and rocked the house. At one point he accidently fell down the dark stage stairs and got injured but never stopped playing. He's the great grandfather of grunge.
I hung out with Link twice. Nicest person on the planet. Autographed like 10 thousand things for me. RIP Mr Ray. Best guitarist ever. Rock n roll hall of fame is shit for not acknowledging your talent.
Never heard of this guy before Fil he’s great! Really nice feel and band is tight as!! Have to look up more of his music!! Smokin!! Great analysis Fil really enjoyed it!!😀😀😀👍👍👍
I saw this many years ago and I watched it many times since. The groove is absolutely insane. Unfortunately he didn’t record this on any album that I’m aware of.
First time I recall listening to him was at Volunteer Jam V. It is was pretty epic to be high as a Georgia pine and listening to him just tear it up. Just jamming away. iirc he was wearing a long black leather coat. He looked like a rockabilly Batman.
I wrote a comment a couple days ago on your Chuck berry video and asked you to check out link. so intentional or not thank you so much. im forever a fan now. & you have such a superb ear for music. you hear everything that isn't making sound and the sound.and that to me is the most amazing skill. PS. links best song to me is "Dixie doodle" or "I sez baby"
I love how you present players who have overcome certain obstacles and/or deviations from 'proper technique' to make a mark on the music world. Great channel. He was also Native American, Shawnee I believe... He was a legend in his own right and a grandfather of modern-day distortion, with his 'slashed speakers' initial technique of introducing distortion. How many boxes today are striving for that speaker-destroying sound? P.S. edit; I miss great shows like 'Old Grey Whistle Test' and the like, nothing like it today unless someone comes across some community programming on TV, which I'm not even sure they have anymore, alas...
Though I love rhythm and lead guitar, I have *always* been all about the bass ! Even as a very young child, I recall isolating the bass line in the way I listened to music. I smiled when you paused the song and commented about the bass here. 😊
You hit the nail on the head when you say Jimi's (Hendrix) voice fit his guitar/music style. I always thought Jimi had a great voice and fit his songs perfectly! I'll take emotion and feel any day over perfect, boring and auto-tune pitch. Enjoyed Link's early songs so found it enjoyable to hear this later recording. Thanks!
Half blind, one lung, botched surgery, lots of scars, sometimes he would literally turn this blue in the face, plus the meds meant he couldn’t go out in the sun, which was the inside joke of the song. Amazing inspiration.
Another great video. Thanks for being soooo positive, and for the focus on musicality of all sorts. I post some lame dad joke comments on your channel, Fil. But seriously, man, I look forward to everything you post. Nice work. Having said that, singing with one lung is impressive. But let's not overlook how Ozzy can sing with 2/3 of his brain missing.
I love his voice..I hadn't heard it until recently. I wouldn't say he had an elvis style really....he's just a cool and interesting individual. He's so different than elvis in every or most every, way.
I first heard of Link Wray about two weeks ago, when TMZ asked Joe Walsh who should be in the R&R HOF and isn't. Joe named Link Wray and a song called Rumble as one of the reasons he picked up a guitar in the first place. Thanks for introducing him to me, and the lesson on power chords.
Thank you for the video. J.J. Cale singer, songwriter and guitarist would be an interesting video. He wrote the songs Cocaine and After Midnight and many other songs during his career. Eric Clapton and J.J. did an album together.
Yeah coworker of mine gave me a JJ Cale album and I don't remember what it was called I'll have to find it in my collection I love J.J Cale! That would be a great one, Fil!
Awesome as usual,I know Tommy Bolin is in the works,Bill(William)Nelson,of be bop deluxe is one of the pioneering shredders, and gifted composers, futurerama,axe victim, sunburnt finnish,though I believe their is footage of live in the air age
About 1959 diagnosed with throat cancer, another reason he mainly did instrumentals...called the granddad of heavy metal for tracks like 'switch blade' insane for also 59' i think, compared to what the others were doing(buddy holly peggy sue etc.) Never mind the 'bat man' theme or rumble being band for the implied violence....an instrumental!... I'll also mention here, people with disabilities, jean vincent had a grean stick fracture of the leg whilst in the military.. where the broken bone sticks out of the skin , never had it fixed ,hense the distinctive way he stood at the microphone stand...
Link's tune "Rumble" was ,I think the only instrumental ever to be banned on American radio. He later hooked up with Robert Gordon for some top of the line Rock-a-billy works.
I love your channel Fil! Your analysis is awesome, and I always learn something. Maybe visit Steve Howe from Yes sometime? I would love to hear your take..keep up the great work!
You have such great insight and analysis---keep it up and keep the videos coming! (maybe check out Clarence White and Marty Stuart(playing Clarence's B string Bender Tele)
Check out Rumble by Link Wray, was it the first guitar using distortion? Very well known instrumental that was actually banned in the United States because it was believed it would incite violence. Apparently it was an influence on Jimmy Page.
Wow , you really do take requests !...Link has a library , am so glad you finally shine a light on him....BTW , I also cut my smokin in half by having a lung removed
He works the hell out of that tail piece. I'm guessing he wasn't happy with the quality of the amp vibrato or he didn't have amp vibrato at all, because this is the effect that he's generating.
Link carried 13,000 years on his shoulders, ..... ''Wray was born on May 2, 1929, in Dunn, North Carolina, to Fred Lincoln Wray Sr. and Lillian Mae Wray (née Coats), whom her son identified as being Shawnee.[4] He recalled living in very harsh conditions during childhood, in mud huts, without electricity or heating, going to school barefoot, barely clothed.[5] He recounted that his family experienced discrimination, including times when they had to hide from the Ku Klux Klan.[6][7] Wray later said: "The cops, the sheriff, the drugstore owner-they were all Ku Klux Klan. They put the masks on and, if you did something wrong, they'd tie you to a tree and whip you or kill you."[6] His family listed themselves as white on census records. Three songs Wray performed during his career were named for Indigenous peoples: "Shawnee", "Apache", and "Comanche."
Wray is every bit as crucial to the history of Rock as Hendrix or the Beatles, - really can't be overstated.It's crazy that he isn't more widely understood and appreciated.
The epitome of cool, never surpassed, first and foremost, a true and rare individual.
I just learned about Link two weeks ago some how I’m still blown away by Links style and will forever be a fan and couldn’t agree with you more!!!!!
Link Wray- THE Man, and not even in the Rock & Roll HoF, absolutely criminal.
"Rumble" should be in every guitar players repertoire.
Also check out "Big City After Dark" and "The Shadow Knows" , 2 more Link classics.
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Big City After Dark is amazing
Link Wray's 1st single Rumble was in 1958. It can be argued that it is the 1st Heavy Medal, Hard Rock, and Punk song. He doesn't get the credit because he played the type of music to fit the feeling of the song. That is what a rumble sounded like to him, angry punks fighting. His image was Rock-A-Billy and he never changed his image to fit the music he played
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@@wingsofpegasus I thought for many years that Elvis was the King of Rock and Roll , and then I heard from a black man , he thought Chuck Bery was the King of R&R . But I now must have to admit that the King of Rock and Roll was actually Link Ray. An American Indian with one-lung lost as a US military vet and being the original BAD-ASS rock guitarist for so many things and sounds , that is cool for me. Surf that chit , Link ;)
That he is singing here,with one lung, and also playing bad ass guitar about 25 years later. Yea, no doubt.
Now, there is no doubt, the Queen of Rock and Roll, was/is Little Richard, I will fight anybody over that definition, LOL
Link invented the power chord..plus distortion
Robert. Did you know that Rumble was banned because Link Wray was half Shawne ?
You are on point. Somehow this guy was forgotten by FM radio and everything thereafter. Dibs to The Yardbirds, I always thought they were the pioneers....WAS I WRONG. This guy was an entire decade earlier, and even Jimmy Page was heavily inspired by Link Wray and his Rambler solo.
One of my favs. Link had it all. Plus that voice withone lung. Who doesn’t love RUMBLE. He always had awesome cats in the band and cats that really wanted to play with him. Mind he was a lot older than most of the guitar gods of the time
Love Rumble!
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Woody81 Rumble is a classic❤️❤️
I love that you've introduced me to a few new musicians... Love your channel❗❗❗I think you're pretty cool ❗ 👍💥
Thanks!
What a wonderful blues/rhythm and blues artist! I had completely forgotten about Link! Thanks for playing this one, and tickling my memory of Link.
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Always been a huge Link fan. His playing is instantly recognizable. We play him on our FM radio show often!
Love his sound; clean guitar with a phaser! He gave that bridge a workout.. “Rumble” is still a bad ass song... 🤟🏻
Yep!
Link Wray radiates COOL. Thanks for all the respect and admiration you show to these seminal artists. Be well and Peace Out.
This song has a great funk feel to it. Thanks for sharing.
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I keep coming back to this. You're doing an excellent job. You're teaching me. Thank you!!!!
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This is another first time listen for me... There's so many artist I have not been exposed to yet until finding your channel. to be really honest when I first heard his voice it wasn't impressive. And then when I saw the information and heard what you had said about how he lost a lung in the military... wow! Then I felt really bad about my first impression after hearing that because singing with both lungs is so physically challenging, let alone one lung! God bless him!... and the groove of the song is very cool!.... thanks Fil!....☮❤🤘
Me too
No problem Lori!
I had the pleasure of meeting Link Wray in 1997 after his sound check before a Nashville club gig. The sound man asked him if he had any special instructions. Link pointed his hand toward upwards and said. "If do this turn it up, it's just rock&roll"--the coolest of the cool and one nicest of the nice
Climbing a high wall is one of Link's best. He toured with the Revelators just before he passed. They do 3 amazing covers of his tracks.
Another guy I've never heard of! Thanks for broadening our knowledge of guitar players. This guy was cool!👍😎🎸🎶
Jimmy Page talks of Rumble as being a big influence.
@brad zybola ok...cool!😎
@@juantailor cool!😎
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Look up Frank Marino.
I'd always heard his instrumentals but never heard him sing before! What a "golden throat!" A true rockers voice! Reminds me of Alvin Lee!
I just love how you explain and break it down for us.
Thanks!
Again, this is why we love your channel, Fil!!! You are always opening our eyes (and ears) to artists many of us have never heard of before!
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Never heard of this guy. He sures got the soul!
Look up "Rumble". You have heard it. George Harrison had to play it to show he had enough skill to join the band.
n1r0l anynonmouse he had to play a song called “Raunchy” actually, not “Rumble”
I stand corrected. I "misremembered" the song. Thanks.
Chris Hock lucky u. U get to listen to this man for the first time. Enjoy
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In 1958, Wray's first hit, "Rumble," was banned in New York and Boston for fear it would incite teenage gang violence...I was looking at a vid with Jimmy Page at his home and he decides to play a record and of all of the hundreds of records he had ,he picks Rumble and talks about the sound of it and you can tell it is a true old fav of his...
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I saw that on YT last night after watching this video. You know you are cool when Jimmy Page air-guitars to you!
Yea he did the air guitar to it for sure ...1
NICE DAWG
Don’t we all do that?
Thanks Fil for your very in-depth analysis of Link Wrays music. Truly a pioneer of rock and roll.
No problem!
Having a link ray moment, put at least a dozen likes on my spotify, hundeds of brilliant songs by this man, great breakdown, full appreciation, and charley charles from the blockheads, what a treat, i guess this band was knocked up when link came to visit/tour? thanks fil.
The funk, the groove, the cool attitude is what I want to emulate in my guitar playing journey.
Nice one Phil, learned a lot unexpectedly, you have a way of cutting to the core,thanks .
No problem!
I would love to see a tour of your studio. 💙✨🌠🎸
Thanks!
❤️❤️🎸🎸Thank you for doing this in Honor of my Father❤️❤️🎸🎸
I have always loved Link Wray. My dad had a few 45s (yep, I'm old) That I use to listen to when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I love in the documentary "It Might Get Loud" watching Jimmy Paige turn into a teenager playing air guitar to the Link Wray classic "Rumble".
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Another great analysis, Fil! Later found on RUclips a full concert of Link's. Thanks for the variety and fine points!
Cool!
the album this is on, Stuck In Gear, is one of the best he ever did & was 100% cool from front to back.
Great video! I always like when you give an extra shout out to those guitarists who also sing. 🎸🎤
Thanks!
Need to check more on Link Wray.
Thanks Fil, nice video.
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Cool - I didn't know he sang! Tracks like 'Jack the Ripper' must have been mind blowing played live in the very early 60's
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Wow.. Big thanks for this I never heard of this artist before either.. Pure class cheers.
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WOWEE! Thanks for featuring him! He is quite unique. He did influence many guitarists. They have nominated him for the rock and roll hall of fame a couple of times. His early stuff is also great.
Yeah!
Link Wray was a phenomenal guitarist. Thanks for another great analysis video. May he rest in peace. I also heard that that late Keith Relf, of the Yardbirds, had only one lung. He was asthmatic, but still did manage to perform, sing and play harmonica. He lost his lung during the Eric Clapton period of the band. It would be cool if you could do an analysis video featuring the Yardbirds. Cheers!
Thanks!
I saw Link play in San Francisco years ago. He was in his late 70's I think and rocked the house. At one point he accidently fell down the dark stage stairs and got injured but never stopped playing. He's the great grandfather of grunge.
I love Link Wrays guitar playing
He did what he loved to do regardless of losing a lung! ❤️
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Great review man keep up the good work
Thanks!
This is super cool. I love the laid-back groove and guitar work. Such a change from Rumble....awesome...👊
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The fact that Link Wray isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a complete joke and is proof enough for me that that that whole thing is a sham
He finally got in! Probably the most correct choice that the Hall has made in maybe 20 years!
@@impalaman9707 yes! Amen brother! I just heard the good news a few days ago in another comment thread here on RUclips
Hi Fill it's been a while I'm gonna start listening again I stopped for a while. Keep up the good work
I like how he mixes a flanger type of effect with the tremolo. Damn, that bass guitar is GROOVIN'!!
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I agree Link Wray 's RUMBLE is for me the most iconic guitar riff followed by stairway to heaven. You should do an analysis of that one too.
I hung out with Link twice. Nicest person on the planet. Autographed like 10 thousand things for me. RIP Mr Ray. Best guitarist ever. Rock n roll hall of fame is shit for not acknowledging your talent.
Awesome!
@@wingsofpegasus thank you. Please keep up the good work.
Link was just inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame recently. ❤
He just always looks too cool to not be bored.
Never heard of this guy before Fil he’s great! Really nice feel and band is tight as!! Have to look up more of his music!! Smokin!! Great analysis Fil really enjoyed it!!😀😀😀👍👍👍
Thanks!
The old gray whistle test. I had to look it up. Sounds like a awsome show.you're teaching an old goat new tricks.
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I saw this many years ago and I watched it many times since.
The groove is absolutely insane. Unfortunately he didn’t record this on any album that I’m aware of.
Fantastic choice!!! ❤
Thanks!
First time I recall listening to him was at Volunteer Jam V. It is was pretty epic to be high as a Georgia pine and listening to him just tear it up. Just jamming away. iirc he was wearing a long black leather coat. He looked like a rockabilly Batman.
Ha. He does had a great style.
I wrote a comment a couple days ago on your Chuck berry video and asked you to check out link. so intentional or not thank you so much. im forever a fan now. & you have such a superb ear for music. you hear everything that isn't making sound and the sound.and that to me is the most amazing skill. PS. links best song to me is "Dixie doodle" or "I sez baby"
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You’re right,the bass player is walking the dog on this song.
I love how you present players who have overcome certain obstacles and/or deviations from 'proper technique' to make a mark on the music world. Great channel. He was also Native American, Shawnee I believe...
He was a legend in his own right and a grandfather of modern-day distortion, with his 'slashed speakers' initial technique of introducing distortion. How many boxes today are striving for that speaker-destroying sound? P.S. edit; I miss great shows like 'Old Grey Whistle Test' and the like, nothing like it today unless someone comes across some community programming on TV, which I'm not even sure they have anymore, alas...
We sometimes have something here called the Jools Holland show, but that's all unfortunately.
I like the funky guitar.
Though I love rhythm and lead guitar, I have *always* been all about the bass ! Even as a very young child, I recall isolating the bass line in the way I listened to music. I smiled when you paused the song and commented about the bass here. 😊
Cool!
little bit of funk right there! Loved it!!
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Love the just play like yourself message :-')
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You hit the nail on the head when you say Jimi's (Hendrix) voice fit his guitar/music style. I always thought Jimi had a great voice and fit his songs perfectly! I'll take emotion and feel any day over perfect, boring and auto-tune pitch. Enjoyed Link's early songs so found it enjoyable to hear this later recording. Thanks!
Special thanks for Link Wray!
Be what you want to, Fil!
Half blind, one lung, botched surgery, lots of scars, sometimes he would literally turn this blue in the face, plus the meds meant he couldn’t go out in the sun, which was the inside joke of the song. Amazing inspiration.
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Link is bad ass. Thanks FIL I wish he was still around
Amen.
Another great video. Thanks for being soooo positive, and for the focus on musicality of all sorts.
I post some lame dad joke comments on your channel, Fil. But seriously, man, I look forward to everything you post. Nice work.
Having said that, singing with one lung is impressive. But let's not overlook how Ozzy can sing with 2/3 of his brain missing.
lol
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Didn’t know much about LW... pretty cool groove and and still able to project power playing despite mild distortion.
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Fil, well put. The same voice from their mouth as from their guitar. Perfectly said. If you can't understand that, you never will. ✌
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Thanks fil
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I love his voice..I hadn't heard it until recently. I wouldn't say he had an elvis style really....he's just a cool and interesting individual. He's so different than elvis in every or most every, way.
I first heard of Link Wray about two weeks ago, when TMZ asked Joe Walsh who should be in the R&R HOF and isn't. Joe named Link Wray and a song called Rumble as one of the reasons he picked up a guitar in the first place. Thanks for introducing him to me, and the lesson on power chords.
No problem!
Thank you for the video. J.J. Cale singer, songwriter and guitarist would be an interesting video. He wrote the songs Cocaine and After Midnight and many other songs during his career. Eric Clapton and J.J. did an album together.
JJ Cale was one of the best songwriters ever!
Eric Clapton and JJ Cale have a couple albums together
Yeah coworker of mine gave me a JJ Cale album and I don't remember what it was called I'll have to find it in my collection I love J.J Cale! That would be a great one, Fil!
Already here somewhere!
Cool! I'll look for it🤘
what a fab groove.
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Awesome as usual,I know Tommy Bolin is in the works,Bill(William)Nelson,of be bop deluxe is one of the pioneering shredders, and gifted composers, futurerama,axe victim, sunburnt finnish,though I believe their is footage of live in the air age
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About 1959 diagnosed with throat cancer, another reason he mainly did instrumentals...called the granddad of heavy metal for tracks like 'switch blade' insane for also 59' i think, compared to what the others were doing(buddy holly peggy sue etc.) Never mind the 'bat man' theme or rumble being band for the implied violence....an instrumental!...
I'll also mention here, people with disabilities, jean vincent had a grean stick fracture of the leg whilst in the military.. where the broken bone sticks out of the skin , never had it fixed ,hense the distinctive way he stood at the microphone stand...
Ouch!
That rhythm section! My favorite Link song. Too bad he couldn't take on vocals more often! Great vocals.
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If Carl Perkins, Elvis and Neil Young had a love child he would look and sound like Link Wray.
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Link's tune "Rumble" was ,I think the only instrumental ever to be banned on American radio. He later hooked up with Robert Gordon for some top of the line Rock-a-billy works.
Yep!
ONE COOL CAT.
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I went on a Link Wray investigatory mission and was amazed at the footage I found! What a musical pioneer! And Rumble! Another tune in Pulp Fiction!!
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Love the style of the Jags and Jazzmasters and the sound they make.
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Link’s guitar here is a Yamaha SG2. They are priced around £1500 to £1800, and they are not so easy to get a hold of.
Always thought this video was superb, years ago. So glad you've shown why.....
Please do an analysis on Link Wray's guitar playing, maybe Deuces Wild as Rumble is too obvious.
Without Link Wray there would be no The Who!
I love your channel Fil! Your analysis is awesome, and I always learn something. Maybe visit Steve Howe from Yes sometime? I would love to hear your take..keep up the great work!
Thanks! Steve is here somewhere!
You have such great insight and analysis---keep it up and keep the videos coming! (maybe check out Clarence White and Marty Stuart(playing Clarence's B string Bender Tele)
Thanks!
Great Native American guitarist 😎👍
Check out Rumble by Link Wray, was it the first guitar using distortion? Very well known instrumental that was actually banned in the United States because it was believed it would incite violence. Apparently it was an influence on Jimmy Page.
Also I think link is a Native American or that’s his heritage
Shawnee
He was Native
Link Wray was three quarters Native American.
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yep, he is
Wow , you really do take requests !...Link has a library , am so glad you finally shine a light on him....BTW , I also cut my smokin in half by having a lung removed
Sounds drastic! 😅
He works the hell out of that tail piece. I'm guessing he wasn't happy with the quality of the amp vibrato or he didn't have amp vibrato at all, because this is the effect that he's generating.
His early 70's albums are incredible, and were very influential on the scene at the time. Page took note especially.
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Oh the days before digital tuners! Thanks Good choice!
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Badass! Enjoy everything good!
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Ogwt,such a great show,you can watch some great bands they had on you tube!Nice show as usual....Brits love Gridiron,Go Seahawks.
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Damn that sounds good. Wooo
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Link carried 13,000 years on his shoulders, ..... ''Wray was born on May 2, 1929, in Dunn, North Carolina, to Fred Lincoln Wray Sr. and Lillian Mae Wray (née Coats), whom her son identified as being Shawnee.[4] He recalled living in very harsh conditions during childhood, in mud huts, without electricity or heating, going to school barefoot, barely clothed.[5] He recounted that his family experienced discrimination, including times when they had to hide from the Ku Klux Klan.[6][7] Wray later said: "The cops, the sheriff, the drugstore owner-they were all Ku Klux Klan. They put the masks on and, if you did something wrong, they'd tie you to a tree and whip you or kill you."[6] His family listed themselves as white on census records. Three songs Wray performed during his career were named for Indigenous peoples: "Shawnee", "Apache", and "Comanche."
Now I know where thin lizzy got there sound from. Very cool. And can I get a studio tour too? Lol
It would be a short tour! 😂
I know this is older but his song fire and brimstone is one of my favorites by Link Wray another is Jack the ripper
The man punched holes in his speaker cone to get the sound for "Rumble". The first "fuzz tone".
Long lost Godfather of Grunge
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I believe I have heard of him and The Old Grey Whistle Test
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I would have played Link Wray's 1958 "Rawhide: on the Dick Clark show. I don't think it was dubbed but I could be wrong.
Link Wray. Legend. Shit hot band.
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Link Wray.... wow what a groovy guy and beast player
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