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"Link Wray, Inventor of the Power Chord, Snubbed Again" by Deke Dickerson
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19351 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 01:37 PM
Great article by Deke Dickerson Link Wray, Inventor of the Power Chord, Snubbed Again —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Last edited: Feb 03, 2018 13:09:54 |
Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 1683 Georgia
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 02:16 PM
I love Deke, and I love how much Deke loves rock 'n roll. There's nothing more to say after that article. —The Mystery Men? |
Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 913 New York City area |
Posted on Feb 01 2018 02:46 PM
An idea I got from the article that will most probably go nowhere with the RRHOF: J Mo' |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25703 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 02:50 PM
Good idea, but as with any big business, the key word is business, they only want to induct bands that will help bring in more people. Sad to say —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Sep 06, 2012 Posts: 1300 Lawrenceville , GA
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 03:53 PM
Link should have been inducted before they unlocked the doors on opening day! |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3861 North Atlantic 
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 04:23 PM
bigtikidude wrote:
Jeff, you hit the nail on the head. It is a business, it is run by businessmen. I think that because they have snubbed Link several times, there is no reason to want to be included by a group of people who continue to overlook him. It's like doing everything possible to be liked by the "cool" kids, who are really not that cool (despite them telling you that they really are cool). Rev —Canadian Surf |
Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 05:38 PM
If they can't hear the rumble, then they can't have any nerve. Someday they will find a truth and it will pulverize them. —Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube |
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Joined: Aug 08, 2015 Posts: 214 Gainesville, Florida
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 05:59 PM
Gotta laugh to keep from cryin' sometimes. |
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Joined: Aug 08, 2015 Posts: 214 Gainesville, Florida
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 06:08 PM
Whoa! I shoulda read the article first. Deke did a hell of a job! |
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Joined: Jul 30, 2016 Posts: 896
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Posted on Feb 01 2018 06:22 PM
The hall of fame is just like Snopes. People for some reason assume it's worth two shits simply because it acts like it is. In reality, it's just some bullshit not even worth talking about. As if their opinion means anything. |
Joined: Jul 24, 2012 Posts: 2762 Finknabad, Squinkistan 
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Posted on Feb 02 2018 10:30 AM
Ole Deke don't pull no punches. I'm glad a player of his stature also has the guff to confront the Hollywood phonies in charge of the bogus 'award of distinction'. RnRHoF mocks Rock'n'Roll altogether. Dickerson's prose employs language of moral and ethical outrage witnessing that CHARACTER still matters. |
Joined: Feb 02, 2008 Posts: 4564 Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Feb 02 2018 03:39 PM
There was a Simpsons episode called Attack of the 50' Eyesores, about all the advertising icons coming to life and rampaging through the town. They defeated them in the cruelest way imaginable, they ignored them, and they went away. I think the RRHOF is a joke; obviously I am not alone. My suggestion is that we give them the attention they deserve. Just because some entity declares itself to be the RRHOF means nothing. It's not like they went up on a mountain and came back down with a stone tablet decreeing them to be authoritative. —The artist formerly known as: Synchro When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25703 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Feb 02 2018 04:20 PM
Some people have brought up giving out awards at the SG101 con. Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Joined: Feb 02, 2008 Posts: 4564 Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Feb 02 2018 04:26 PM
bigtikidude wrote:
You should get an award for posting that. The artist formerly known as: Synchro When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25703 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Feb 02 2018 05:44 PM
Ha!!! —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: May 14, 2007 Posts: 1753
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Posted on Feb 02 2018 06:35 PM
It shouldn't matter how well known or obscure Link was in the eyes of the general public (who as we know, have the attention span of a gnat). It's the hall's job if it's worth its salt to do its curatorial duty to the set the record and educate! Not to pander to the lowest common denominator. |
Joined: Mar 13, 2009 Posts: 2367 Twin Cities, MN
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Posted on Feb 03 2018 07:33 AM
Sorry to derail, but the title of this thread reads like Link was snubbed by Deke Link doesn’t need to be inducted into some convoluted cockamamie club for music industry execs to milk more money out of artists/albums. Such an “honor” doesn’t validate anyone’s place in rock history, it just validates their continued mass marketability. Those who are actually concerned with history and not hype/sales generation are already aware of Link’s place. |
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Joined: Feb 02, 2008 Posts: 4564 Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Feb 03 2018 08:54 AM
josheboy wrote:
Well said. It strikes me that many of these awards have become so politicized that they have become little more than paperweights. I’ll never be a candidate for the R&R Hall of Fame, but I wouldn’t care to be. Some of the honors they have given out devalue the concept to the point that I wouldn’t care to be associated with it. Likewise for Oscars, Grammys or any number of other awards. If someone wanted to honor me (and I’m not suggesting that there’s any reason that should happen) the best way to,do so would be to send me a fat check so I can live out my days in the style to which I could rapidly become accustomed. The artist formerly known as: Synchro When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar. Last edited: Feb 03, 2018 08:55:06 |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Feb 03 2018 10:34 AM
I love this article, but remove any references to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That institution has never influenced American, or world, music buying or the legacy of artists in the public eye. What people, all of us, need to do is write articles, talk to people, and spread on the love of the music we hold dear. That is the true legacy of music not Link Wrays jacket and a guitar hanging on a wall. We can't let the Grammys and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bother us. We act as if these things are an attack on our musical taste and upon the artists we love. But be a Steward of your music, pass it along, speak about why you love it. Surf Music wouldn't be played today if we didn't disseminate it to wider audiences. |
Joined: Jul 13, 2012 Posts: 490 San Diego CA
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Posted on Feb 03 2018 03:15 PM
Every year i get someone asking me to 'vote' for this years candidates to the RNRHOF ...and I wont bother even pressing a few keystrokes on my laptop . That place is a joke and I refuse to coooperate ,even for my favorite artists. It does not please me to know that even if Link did get in , he'd have to share space with Bon Jovi or any of the many non rock n roll artists they deem worthy . I'm not playing along . |
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