Link Wray has passed on. R.I.P.

[Loons The Great]

I heard the sad, sad news today that Link Wray is dead. God Bless Ya, Link Wray.


http://home3.inet.tele.dk/sba/bio.htm

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Loons The Great
I heard the sad, sad news today that Link Wray is dead. God Bless Ya, Link Wray.


http://home3.inet.tele.dk/sba/bio.htm

If (not when) DLR dies, I will go fucking psycho.

[Hardrock69]

Ok so there is a bio there.

It says nothing about him being dead, nor has it been announced anywhere on the net.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Link+Wray+death&btnG=Search
NOTHING?
Originally posted by Hardrock69
Ok so there is a bio there.

It says nothing about him being dead, nor has it been announced anywhere on the net.

[Loons The Great]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
Ok so there is a bio there.

It says nothing about him being dead, nor has it been announced anywhere on the net.

Ok so I posted a link to his bio because there are probably idiots that don't know who he is. I heard the info from a reliable source in Denmark where Link had been living for a couple years with his Danish wife.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Loons The Great
Ok so I posted a link to his bio because there are probably idiots that don't know who he is. I heard the info from a reliable source in Denmark where Link had been living for a couple years with his Danish wife.

Dude you should have waited until google had anything on the subject.

[Hardrock69]

Tell your reliable source to send you a link.
;)

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
Tell your reliable source to send you a link.
;)

watch that link conveniently be a 404.

[Loons The Great]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
Tell your reliable source to send you a link.
;)

It was from a blues website that you need to be registered at to read anything on the site. If there is no link on the internet, then it didn't happen? I wouldn't post something stupid about the mighty Link Wray. This is serious and he will be missed.

[PHOENIX]

He probably invented the first Heavy Metal riff. Too Bad.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Loons The Great
It was from a blues website that you need to be registered at to read anything on the site. If there is no link on the internet, then it didn't happen? I wouldn't post something stupid about the mighty Link Wray. This is serious and he will be missed.

post the link and I will register and post my user and pass on bugmenot.com

[FORD]

If Loons said it, you can believe it.

RIP Link :(

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by FORD
If Loons said it, you can believe it.

RIP Link :(

Adios, mi mejor amigo que no me gusto tan mucho como ustedes!

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by PHOENIX
He probably invented the first Heavy Metal riff. Too Bad.

Yeah, I'd agree with that.
RIP

[thome]

I spent a solid two hrs on the net all over the net everything except
email to his Wife/ Manager.Wich on my part rite or wrong would be
in bad taste.
Lots of info, lots more accolades for him than i thought, he had.

no valid info on his death i will not dispute it .he(loons) must have heard it
from someone very close to home.RIP

I got some old Ventures Lps and new of Link and back in storage
may have a tune or two of his on LP.Those super STEREOPHONIC
Lps that came out in the sixties.I love that old stlye solid Beat
guitar rock&roll.

I even have a vague memory of seeing Link play a show at a VFW hall
or some Jam palace of the sort that brought Punk, Alternative acts
to the forefront in the early 80s ??

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by thome
I spent a solid two hrs on the net all over the net everything except
email to his Wife/ Manager.Wich on my part rite or wrong would be
in bad taste.
Lots of info, lots more accolades for him than i thought, he had.

no valid info on his death i will not dispute it .he(loons) must have heard it
from someone very close to home.RIP

I got some old Ventures Lps and new of Link and back in storage
may have a tune or two of his on LP.Those super STEREOPHONIC
Lps that came out in the sixties.I love that old stlye solid Beat
guitar rock&roll.

I even have a vague memory of seeing Link play a show at a VFW hall
or some Jam palace of the sort that brought Punk, Alternative acts
to the forefront in the early 80s ??


i will give it a week before i dismiss it.

[Loons The Great]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/21/obit.wray.ap/index.html

Merrykissmass2u, what were you saying??????

[Matt White]

RIP Link


"Rumble young man, rumble"

[Matt White]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Guitar master Link Wray, the father of the power chord in rock 'n' roll who inspired such legends as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Pete Townshend, has died. He was 76.

Wray died Nov. 5 at his home in Copenhagen, his wife and son said on his Web site. No cause of death was given, but his family said his heart was "getting tired." He was buried Friday after a service at Copenhagen's Christian Church.

"While playing his guitar he often told the audience, 'God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play,'" his wife, Olive, and son, Oliver Christian, wrote. "We saw you go with God, you were smiling."

Wray, who played in his trademark leather jacket, developed a style considered the blueprint for heavy metal and punk music. He is best known for his 1958 instrumental "Rumble," 1959 "Rawhide" and 1963 "Jack the Ripper." His music has been featured in movies including "Pulp Fiction," "Independence Day" and "Desperado."

Wray, who was born in North Carolina and is three-quarters Shawnee Indian, is said to have inspired many other rock musicians, including Townshend of the Who, Springsteen, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Steve Van Zandt. All have been quoted as saying that Wray and "Rumble" inspired them to become musicians.

"He is the king; if it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar,'" Townshend wrote on one of Wray's albums. Neil Young once said: "If I could go back in time and see any band, it would be Link Wray and the Raymen."

The power chord — a thundering sound created by playing fifths (two notes five notes apart, often with the lower note doubled an octave above) — became a favorite among rock players. Wray claimed because he was too slow to be a whiz on the guitar, he had to invent sounds.

When recording "Rumble," he created the fuzz tone by punching holes in his amplifiers to produce a dark, grumbling sound. It took off instantly, but it was banned by some deejays in big cities for seeming to suggest teen violence.

"I was looking for something that Chet Atkins wasn't doing, that all the jazz kings wasn't doing, that all the country pickers wasn't doing. I was looking for my own sound," Wray told The Associated Press in 2002.

He was born Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr. in 1929 in Dunn, N.C. His two brothers, Vernon and Doug, were also musicians. The three became a country hit as "Lucky Wray and the Palomino Ranch Hands." Later, after "Rumble," they became "Link Wray and the Raymen," or Wraymen, as it was sometimes spelled. Later, the brothers' relationship soured after a dispute about the rights to "Rumble."

In 1978, he moved to Denmark and married Olive Julie Povlsen. They raised their son in a three-story house on an island where Hans Christian Andersen once lived.

Though he went out of style in the '60s, he was rediscovered by later generations. He toured the United States and Canada since the mid-1990s, playing 40 shows this year. In 2002, Guitar World magazine elected Wray one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.


NEVER DOUBT LOONS

[Hardrock69]

http://www.linkwraylegend.com/

Yup.

I never do doubt Loons.

I posted above without bothering to see who had started the thread.

And of course, we children are not allowed to edit our own posts.

Oh well.

R.I.P. Link Wray!

[BrownSound1]

DAMN! I've really been out of it lately. Very sad to hear about this. Dude is a major fookin' pioneer.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by Loons The Great
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/21/obit.wray.ap/index.html

Merrykissmass2u, what were you saying??????

now i believe you. i just needed to see it to believe it. considering i do not know you on these forums very well, you were just some person with some news that could have or could have not been true. now that i know that you are a credible source, i appreciate you sharing your knowledge on rotharmy. it wasnt anything personal against you AT ALL. its the same reason i dont believe in ghosts. i cant see it, it isnt there.

[WARF]

http://www.marcmarnie.com/music/mgall08/link.jpgRIP :(

[Steve Savicki]

Sad when anyone dies, but to be honest, I actually thought how long it's been since I played "bullshot" from '79.