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	Link Wray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was a rock and roll guitar player most noted for introducing a new sound for electric guitars in his major hit, the 1958 instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men.
		Link and his family later moved to Norfolk, Virginia as his father got work in the Navy shipyards.
		Wray was a veteran of the Korean war, where he contracted tuberculosis that ultimately cost him a lung.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Link_Wray (1174 words)

	Link Wray - Biography - AOL Music
		Link's follow-up to "Rumble" was the pounding, uptempo "Rawhide." The Les Paul had been swapped for a Danelectro Longhorn model (with the longest neck ever manufactured on a production line guitar), its "lipstick tube" pickups making every note of Link's power chords sound like he was strumming with a tin can lid for a pick.
		Link's amp was recorded at the end of a hotel staircase for maximum echo effect, while he pumped riffs through it that would become the seeds of a million metal songs.
		Wray married and moved to Denmark in 1980, recording the stray album for the foreign market, and throughout the 1990s he was still capable of strapping on a guitar and making it sound nastier than anyone in his sixties had a right to.
	music.aol.com /artist/link-wray/5875/biography (1482 words)

	Guitar Legend: Link Wray
		The Wrays then signed to Epic Records after disagreeing with their original label, Cadence, which wanted to tone down the tough image they began to have from "Rumble." The Wrays' next single, the pounding "Rawhide," went to #23 and was a hit among leather-jacketed, motorcycle-loving male youths.
		Link Wray was becoming the hero of juvenile elinquents and this scared record companies, who forced him to record non-rock songs such as "Danny Boy" with orchestras.
		Wray claims that because he was too slow to be a wiz on guitar, he had to invent sounds.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /LinkWray.html (3127 words)

	The only official Link Wray Website!
		Link Wray is known for being the first musician to experiment with the sounds that pioneered rock and roll and punk styles.
		Link’s original sound is timeless, as evidenced by the inclusion of many of his guitar instrumentals in some of the best motion pictures of the last decade.
		Link fell in love with Olive Julie Povlsen, a Danish student of Native American culture, in 1979 and has been living privately in Denmark since 1980 with her, and their son Oliver Christian Wray, born in 1983.
	www.linkwraylegend.com (812 words)

	Link Wray
		Link was born Fred Lincoln Wray on May 2, 1929 in Dunn, North Carolina and began playing guitar at the early age of four years old when a local picker, simply named Hambone, offered the young link a crude axe and a few brief lessons.
		Link claims that at a Fredricksburg gig the young-uns in the crowd were screamin' for 'em to crank out a stroll number.
		Link Wray has performed solo during the last two decades, every now and again recording an LP and performing live shows, just to prove that he is still as wild and innovative as he was in '58 when he first recorded "Rumble".
	members.tripod.com /rocker58/artists/wray/Linkwray.html (2201 words)

	Link Wray
		There are those who claim that Link Wray invented heavy metal, an accusation based on his 1958 million-seller "Rumble", an intense, moody guitar instrumental intended to capture the feel of a gang fight.
		Fortunately Wray continued to record in the three-track he had built on his farm, and in 1971 he produced the glorious Link Wray.
		Link played on two excellent albums and even toured with Gordon a bit, keeping his back to the audience in an effort to keep the focus on Gordon.
	www.euronet.nl /users/wvbrecht/linkwray.htm (710 words)

	Link Wray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Link Wray is credited with having more influence than his track record might indicate.
		Wray who was not signed with Cadence was quickly picked up by Epic Records, which channeled his energy into a series of less raucous instrumentals including "Rawhide," "Comanche," and "Slinky." Doug Wray also recorded "Goosebumps" for Epic in 1959.
		Wray was unwilling to compromise his music to appeal to the masses.
	www.history-of-rock.com /link_wray.htm (632 words)

	Perfect Sound Forever: Link Wray tribute
		Link Wray seemed so strong, so invincible, like he'd be lurking around forever, just wailing away in some East Jesus shithole, terrorizing another doomed amp while he stuck the neck of Screamin' Red in the dazed faces of a new batch of converts.
		Wray was the epitome of a certain sort of cool that continues to rev the engines of young upstarts the world over.
		Link Wray was a man who saw most everything as some form of God vs. the guy with the horns, and his birth on May 2nd, 1929, in Dunn, North Carolina was no exception.
	www.furious.com /perfect/linkwray.html (2977 words)

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		Link Wray was born in Dunn, North Carolina and grew up in Arizona.
		Link Wray was in the mikitary durring the Korean war, where he contracted tuberculosis.
		Link Wray moved over to the 1023 club in South East.
	www.dc-rock-and-roll.org /link_wray.html (554 words)

	Link Wray - Rockabilly Central
		In 1957, Link Wray single-handedly invented the heavy metal power chord with one strum of the D string on his battered Danelectro fuzztone guitar.
		To say Link Wray is the most important and influential rock guitarist of the past 40 years is an understatement.
		Link punctured several holes in his Premier amp's speakers with a pencil, which added the sizzling fuzztone sound on top of a snarling, ominous mid-tempo treble riff, preceding the "heavy metal thunder" of Steppenwolf and countless other dinosaur rockers by more than a decade.
	www.rockabilly.net /articles/link.shtml (1325 words)

	Articles - Link Wray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was there that Link first heard slide guitar at age 8 from a traveling carnival worker, a fl man named "Hambone".
		Pete Townshend stated in liner notes for a 1974 Wray album, "He is the king; if it hadn´t been for Link Wray and ´Rumble,´; I would have never picked up a guitar." Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, Neil Young and Bob Dylan have all cited Wray as an influence.
		Link Wray passed away November 5, 2005 at his home in Copenhagen.
	www.jazzbit.com /articles/Link_Wray (908 words)

	Link Wray - Biography
		Wray began to learn and play songs such as "Trouble In Mind" and "The Whale Did Swallow Jonah Down." Not having any formal musical training, he relied on his ability to pick up tunes by ear, listening to his favorite guitarists: Grady Martin, Johnny Smith, Les Paul, Hank Williams, and Chet Atkins.
		Link knew that since he had come out of seclusion he could not spend the rest of his career recording in Accokeek.
		Link’s career has been a series of recording company problems, impossible producers, people constantly pestering him to compromise his principles, but Link Wray has come out on top.
	home3.inet.tele.dk /sba/bio.htm (1285 words)

	NPR : Link Wray: Father of the Power Chord
		All Things Considered, November 21, 2005 ·; Link Wray is the man who is said to have inspired rock-and-roll legends such as Pete Townsend and Neil Young with his power chord guitar playing.
		Link Wray was 76 when he died earlier this month at his home in Copenhagen.
		Wray's style was considered to be the foundation for heavy metal and punk music.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5021946 (142 words)

	Rolling Stone : Guitarist Link Wray Dies
		Link Wray, the electric guitar innovator who is often credited as the father of the power chord, died earlier this month at his home in Copenhagen, apparently of natural causes.
		Wray's early, highly stylized instrumental swagger, further evidenced in follow-up hits such as "Raw-Hide" and "Jack the Ripper," would prove to be a great inspiration for some of the most potent guitarists of the classic rock era, including Pete Townshend, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
		Link Wray was born Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/8855802/guitarist_link_wray_dies (738 words)

	USATODAY.com - Guitarist Link Wray, writer of 'Rawhide', 'Rumble,' dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wray, 76, died at his home in Copenhagen Nov. 5, a statement from his wife and son on his website said.
		Wray, who was three-quarters Shawnee Indian, is said to have inspired many other rock musicians, including Pete Townsend of the Who, but also David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Steve Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen.
		Wray claimed because he was too slow to be a whiz on the guitar, he had to invent sounds.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-11-21-link-wray-obit_x.htm (626 words)

	LivinBlues- Link Wray
		Link Wray is an original, a one-of-a-kind revolutionary who forever altered the way we now think of the guitar: meaning the fleetest fingered string wiz on down to your typical three-chord punker is forever indebted to him.
		Link Wray always did his own thing, but versatility was always part of the package.
		An inductee to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, Link Wray continues to pack venues worldwide, as three generations pay homage and marvel how this dynamic icon generates such fire, gusto, and passion--while draining the energy from bucks 50 years his junior.
	www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/linkwray.asp (520 words)

	Link Wray
		Link Wray is one of the most important figures in the history of the electric guitar.
		Link Wray is the Father of Punk Rock.
		Link harnessed the pure elemental power of the electric guitar, basted it in excessive tremolo and distortion, and tossed it on a noisy B-B-Q of raw energy and snotty attitude.
	www.geocities.com /bighollowtwang/LinkWray.html (322 words)

	Link Wray, 1929-2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Link Wray, the rock guitar pioneer who gave birth to the aggressively primal sound known as the power chord on his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" and influenced two generations of rock guitarists, died of a heart ailment Nov. 5 at his home in Denmark, according to a family statement on his Web site.
		As Wray later described it, he was puzzled until Doug began to pound out the underlying beat.
		Wray moved to Denmark in 1978 and moved into a house on an island where Hans Christian Andersen once lived.
	www.statesman.com /news/content/news/stories/nation/11/22wrayobit.html (542 words)

	Amazon.com: Rumble! The Best of Link Wray: Music: Link Wray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Speaking of blues, Wray actually sings on his cover of Jimmy Reed's "Ain't That Lovin' You Babe," and the distinctive raspy voice and occasional wheezes is due to the loss of a lung to TB during the Korean War.
		The fact that Link Wray is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but nearly every baby boomer limp-wristed "singer songwriter" is is more proof that the HOF is a sham."Rumble" alone should guarantee him a spot there.
		Link Wray, frustrated by the clean sound of the speakers he was using poked holes in them to create a raw and rough sound.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003308?v=glance (1773 words)

	Link Wray Review
		Although I was familiar with Wray, the man credited for the use of intentional distortion (by poking holes in his speakers) and as the originator of the power chord, I never had the good fortune to see him perform live.
		Apparently, Wray had cancelled an earlier Tampa appearance at the Tropical Heatwave and this seemed to generate some fear the lightning was about to strike twice.
		When the show ended around Midnight, Link quickly left the stage and was whisked away as one of the stage crew sadly reported that, "Link Wray has left the building," essentially killing the possibility of an encore, an autograph or a brief conversation with the living legend.
	www.mnblues.com /review/2002/linkwray-702dp.html (794 words)

	The only official Link Wray Website!
		In 81 she was appointed manager by Link, (till that day he had managed himself).
		Link is honored with many other famous guitarists such as David Gilmore of Pink Floyd, Steve Cropper, Brian Setzer and Dave Edmunds, just to name a few.
		Link has been living privately in Scandinavia since 1980 with his Danish born wife Olive July Wray (Still his manager), and their 22 year old son and co-producer Oliver Christian Wray.
	www.linkwraylegend.com /bio.html (887 words)

	NME.COM - News - Guitar legend Link Wray dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guitarist Link Wray, who was said to have invented the power chord, has died aged 76 in Copenhagen.
		Wray's style is considered the blueprint for heavy metal and punk music.
		Wray, known for his trademark fl leather jacket, is survived by his wife and son.
	www.nme.com /news/u2/21568 (241 words)

	milkriverblog: OBT: Link Wray, Rock Prophet
		As young folks will be completely oblivious to the history of their generations favorites, so was i completely ignorant of Link Wray until he came to CS for a concert.
		Released as a single by Wray & His Ray Men, "Rumble" was gutbucket menace, awash in echo and reverb, built on Wray's slow drags across the strings of alternating major chords, capped by a run of notes up and down the fretboard.
		Thinking it had something to do with the studio amps, Wray took a pencil and punched holes in his speakers, thereby inventing the fuzzbox and becoming one of the first guitarists to experiment with feedback and distortion.
	milkriver.blogspot.com /2005/11/obt-link-wray-rock-prophet.html (908 words)

	Link Wray Dead at 76 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Link Wray, the man Pete Townshend credits as his biggest influence, has died in Copenhagen at the age of 76.
		Wray wrote his signature tune ‘Rumble’ in 1953 and in 1958, it made it to number 16 on the US chart.
		Wray married a Danish lady and moved to Copenhagen where he spent the rest of his life.
	www.undercover.com.au /news/2005/nov05/20051121_linkwray.html (204 words)

	Spread The Good Word: Link Wray 1929-2005
		Link Wray is for me the essence of what rock & roll is about.
		To the contrary, I'd say Link was the first guitarist for whom texture and tone overwhelmed the actual notes he was playing.
		Link and other instrumentalists brought the guitar out to the forefront where it remains today.
	reverendfrost.blogspot.com /2005/11/link-wray-1929-2005.html (1063 words)

	Link Wray - The Missing Link by Andrew Darlington; Link Wray Discography
		Link Wray perpetrated the classic Rumble” - the original master-blaster of Rock ‘n’ Roll guitar, a huge 1958 hit he was never able to follow.
		Frederick Lincoln ‘Link’ Wray Jr was born of Shawnee Native American stock in Dunn, Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1929, to impoverished semi-literate parents.
		After leaving Epic, Link and his brothers set to converting their family chicken-coop out back of their trailer-home in arid Accokeek, twelve miles from Tucson Arizona, into a rudimentary recording studio from which they can unleash more wild instrumentals, with the background sound of croaking bullfrogs occasionally audible way back in the Ampex mix.
	www.booksmusicfilmstv.com /AndrewDarlington/LinkWray.htm (3118 words)

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