Primitive Stuff / RE: (TV) Link Wray, RIP

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

Russ Van Rooy wrote:
> Very saddened to hear this. I was just starting to get 
>into his music - 

Scott wrote:
>EDD ....did an instrumental piece.  Rick Rizzo wrote 
>to me later that is was by Link Wray,  I think it was 
>called "Rumble".

It might be stretching it to say Link Wray helped 
'invent' rock n, roll, but: 

"Quite simply, Link Wray invented the power chord ['Rumble', 
1958], the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists. 
Listen to any of the tracks he recorded between that landmark 
instrumental in 1958 through his Swan recordings in the 
early 1960s and you'll hear the blueprints for heavy metal, 
thrash, you name it" from: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll

IMHO, always thought Bill Haley and the Comets got too much 
credit.  It's usually not who came first, but what you do 
with 'it'---that more important. 

(I think he was 100% American Indian).  I loved 'Rumble' 
for its primitiveness---I still have my copy of the 1958 
45 rpm --no I'm not that old, I was into 'howdy Doody' 
when it first came out).  He also had another 1958 45 rpm 
guitar instrumental called 'Rawhide'  But its tempo was 
about 10 times faster than the lumbering 'Rumble'. In the 
80's at great parties, I'd often put 'Rawhide' at the end 
of a dance tape---invariably it got people jumpin' 
around---even many of the crowd who'd spend the whole 
party talking in the kitchen and were too self-concious 
to dance. 

>So it's all six or less degrees of separation in our 
>little parochial world.

I'm not psychic but last Wednesday in my rambling
reminiscing on an infamous Cambridge record store:

....when I brought back to the store a Link Wray 
compilation vinyl album (had some of his 'hits', 
plus his cover of the theme music for the god-awful 
late-60s' tv show, "Batman"). 

I realize it's a parlor game but: Not counting 'Satisfaction'
and "19th Nervous Breakdown" can one tell why it only takes 2 
degrees of separation to get from Mick Jagger to Verlaine?

Last but not least, Scott or anyone: I may have asked this 
awhile back, but what would be 2 EDD studio albums to begin 
with?

	Leo  
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