RAWHIDE
Link Wray is credited with inventing the power chord (part of the basic language of modern rock guitar); and, together with his band the Ray Men, Link Wray scored hit songs like “Rumble”, “Rawhide” and “Jack the Ripper” (which was given new life when it made the soundtrack for the remake of Breathless that starred Richard Gere).
(June 2011)
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As it happens, I have a live album by Link Wray from the same time period as the original Link Protrudi and the Jaymen, called Live in ’85 that includes several other of his early classics like “Jack the Ripper” and “Rawhide”.
(February 2013)
