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GET READY TO RUMBLE! 13 Guitar Rumble to Honor Link Wray

Save the date, note your calendar, check flight and train schedules, mark your hand but don't miss the 13 GUITAR RUMBLE: THE LINK WRAY TRIBUTE at the REDWOOD BAR & GRILL Downtown Los Angeles, on Friday, November 19 at 9PM 316 W. 2nd St.

13 GUITAR RUMBLE honors the late, great guitarist LINK WRAY, the man who invented the power chord.  Wray's notable songs include "Ace of Spades", "Jack the Ripper", and his banned from radio/signature reverb classic, "Rumble".  Wray toured relentlessly for over five decades until just weeks before his death in November 2005.  Originally conceived in 2006 by Burnin' Mike Vernon of Austin, Texas' 3 Balls of Fire, the show features different combination's of L.A. guitarists playing the Wray catalog culminating with thirteen guitarists on stage playing “Rumble” at the same time!!

Performing in memory of Wray will be:

• DAVE ALVIN (Blasters),
• DEKE DICKERSON,
• PETE CURRY (Los Straitjackets),
• PAUL JOHNSON (The Surfaris, Belairs),
• JOHN BLAIR (Jon & The Nightriders),
• BILLY BLASTOFF (Detonators),
• SKIP HELLER (worked with Les Baxter and  Robert Drasnin),
• DAVE ARNSON (Insect Surfers),
• SYLVIA JUNCOSA,
• DAVE WRONSKI (Slacktone),
• CHRISTIAN FRIZZELL (Champagne Velvet),
• DUSTY WATSON (Slacktone),
• MIKE VERNON (3 Balls of Fire, Danny &  The Steak Knives)
• and SURPRISE MYSTERY GUESTS!!

The evening will open with L.A.'s super bad surf guitar trio, SLACKTONE,
LA's hottest space-age, crime-jazz unit – DANNY & THE STEAK KNIVES

And the men with the burning guitars, 3 BALLS OF FIRE, performing original, high octane, road-tested, surf-drenched Texas twang and celebrating their 23rd anniversary this year.  LINK WRAY hand-picked Vernon to lead his band at the 2005 Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans.  The 13 Guitar Rumble was also featured at the 2006 Pipeline Festival in London with members of the Ventures, The Space Agency, Shadows and 3 Balls of Fire.

Check out the flyer at: www.myspace.com/3ballsoffire 
THANKS!  Mike Vernon