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NME.com feature on Link Wray including news, reviews, biography, youtube video, audio, concerts, tour dates, photos, pictures, commentary, album reviews and live reviews and cool facts.

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"Rumble"-Link Wray(1978)

Rest in Peace. Link Wray was one of the true Original guitar players of this century, his innovations can be heard in almost every rock song today.

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BEST SOUND IN 480P ALSO PLAYED ON THE SEEBURG JUKEBOX CLICK HERE www.youtube.com Rumble Link Wray 1958 recorded from the original Cadence 45 RPM record and played on a Dual 1229 turntable with Ortofon 030 cartridge...

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Link Wray - Switchblade

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Link Wray - Rumble

This video is from Link Wray: The Rumble Man DVD. The first ever DVD to feature one of the most influential guitar players of all time, the mighty Link Wray. Some of music's most famous names have been in thrall to...

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Link Wray Rawhide on Dick Clark's American Bandstand

Link Wray Rawhide on Dick Clark's show American Bandstand

Link Wray Biography

Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.

Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound. He also "invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarist," "and in doing so fathering," or making possible, "punk and heavy rock". Rolling Stone placed Wray at number 67 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

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