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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:10 PM
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Happy 69th birthday to LINK WRAY!!!
Edited on Sun May-02-04 07:11 PM by NightTrain
That's right, y'all. The man who created the power chord on his 1958 instrumental hit, "Rumble," was born in Dunn, North Carolina on May 2, 1935. Now he's almost 70 and remains one of the meanest guitar players around!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LINKSTER!!! :toast::party::yourock:
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:11 PM
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1. Dude, did you know that's a sexual position?
I don't get it, but people always laugh, so I do too.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:12 PM
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3. Never mind (on second thought)
Edited on Sun May-02-04 07:12 PM by flamingyouth
:evilgrin:
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:13 PM
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4. I ruined the office computer by spitting water all over the keyboard.
Damn you funny DUers
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:11 PM
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2. I saw him a few years back. He was still great
but his backing band sucked, unfortunately. Happy Birthday, Link!:party:
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:13 PM
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5. Ooooh yyeeaahh... Link Wray and his Wraymen!
An almost forgotten rock legend...

Wray deserves to be remembered as a true originator of the form.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:16 PM
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6. It doesn't help that Wray has lived in Denmark for the past 30 or so years
Link might be better remembered if he still lived stateside. :shrug:
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:24 PM
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8. True dat...
Didn't know he had been away from the states...
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Penndems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:20 PM
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7. One of the all-time legends of rock and R&B
BTW, he wrote "Rumble" after witnessing a brawl at at honky tonk in Fredericksburg, Virginia. ;)

Happy Birthday, Link!

:toast: :party:
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gonefishing Donating Member (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:33 PM
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9. I saw him with Robert Gorden at Max's Kansas City
RG opened with Fire written by Bruce Springsteen with Link Wray backing him up. It doesn't get much better!
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:37 PM
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10. "Deuces Wild" = Best. Rock. Instrumental. Ever.
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Bob3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 07:42 PM
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11. Rumble is one of the great moments of the Electric Guitar
without Link - no Pete Towsnend and a thousand others.
gonna put him on now.
Link Rules.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 08:05 PM
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12. Only instrumental that ever scared me the first time I heard it.
Small wonder that so many Top 40 stations refused to play "Rumble" when it was new. They were afraid the well-connected rock-haters of that era would accuse them of promoting juvenile delinquency!

Tell me again how the '50s were "the good ol' days?" :eyes:
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