Ready to rumble?
Link Wrays 1958 song Rumble remains the most dangerous-sounding instrumental blues vamp ever recorded, unmatched in its raw, slinky cool until, perhaps, John Lee Hookers Endless Boogie or the Velvet Undergrounds White Light/White Heat. But unlike Lou Reed, Wray didnt need lyrics about heroin addiction and sadomasochism to freak out the parents and turn on the kids. All he needed was his fuzzed-out guitar, soaking in reverb and tremolo, and a rhythm section with the minimalist instincts of Bo Diddleys band, who were making a similar kind of sound at the same time Rumble hit the airwaves. But where Diddleys songs invited listeners to dance, Wrays ragged, ominous chords, overdriven and dragged to a crawl, wrote Rolling Stone, sounded like an invitation to a knife fight.
http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-only-instrumental-every-banned-from-the-radio-link-wrays-rumble-1958.html
Who is gonna watch?
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/rumble/
They tried to ban, censor and erase Indian culture from rock and roll history but Native American influence is wrapped into modern music's DNA. RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World is an electric look at Native American influence in popular music, going deep into the Indigenous foundations of rock