This dude was the SHIT. I saw him for the last time a few years ago and although he was frail, he still played like a rock star. He will be missed!


Link Wray 1929-2005


"The guitarist Link Wray, considered one of the pioneers of the American rock in the decade of the years 50 and cult figure, passed away at the age of 76 in Copenhagen, where lived since two decades ago, reported today the newspaper 'Politiken'.


Its powerful 'riffs' of guitar were worth him the nickname of 'the godfather of the harmonious one of the power' and the respect of several generations of musicians, debtors of its bequest, although never had the recognition of other contemporaries as Gene Vincent or Elvis Presley.

Of him told Even Townsend, guitarist of The Who, that was 'the king' and that if was not by him never to have learned to touch the guitar, while Johnny Cash owes him its 'look' of black leather.

Frederick Lincoln Wray was born in Dunn (Carolina north), in 1929, in a home marked by the shortage, the strong religiousness and the traumas of a father marked by the First World War.

After surviving to a tuberculosis, that obliged to eradicate him a lung, Wray, of blood India American by maternal way, created a group of country with its two brothers in order then to found the band Link Wray and His Ray Men.

'If it could return behind in the time and only could see a band would be Link Wray and His Ray Men', said Neil Young once.

Its leap to the fame arrived with 'Rumble' (1958), a success in the United States despite that the theme was prohibited by some chains of radio, that considered that incited to the violence.

Wray alternated its band with works as the guitarist of study for Fats I Dominate, Rick Nelson or Buddy Holly, until, enough of the record companies, decided to create his in the middle of the decade of the sixty and to touch since its farm of Maryland, ignored by the industry.

In 1977, had a fleeting return with the singer Robert Gordon, that led to a brief renaissance. In the eighties, lived to horse between United States and Denmark, country in which was established finally after marrying a Danish.

Link Wray continued publishing some disk of sporadic form and collaborating with some local band, and even had another brief moment of glory when Quentin Tarantino chose various of its themes for the movie 'Pulp Fiction'.

In 2004, it returned to the settings to carry out a tour by its native land that harvested good criticisms.

Also visit: http://www.linkwraylegend.com

And http://www.WraysShack3Tracks.com/

RIP



The inventor of the power chord and amps that are blown out, we owe him much respect.

Ace of Spades and Rumble are heard during the 50s restaurant scene in Pulp Fiction.


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