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Don't forget Davie Allan!!! Link, Dick and the Ventures all belong
in the R&R HOF, but so does the great Davie Allan.
Bob S.
--- In , "Gavin Ehringer"
<gavinehringer@...> wrote:
>
> I agree with Richard...I was one of Link Wray's biggest fans on
the list and still play many
> of Link's songs. I think the rock'n'roll community (read, the
critics) didn't give him his
> props, but there are legions of guitar gods who readily admit how
influential his big,
> spare, raucous sound was on their playing.
>
> It ills me that Miles Davis was placed in the R'n'R Hall of Fame
this month, while guys like
> Link Wray and Dick Dale and The Ventures all get skipped over. Not
to take away from
> Miles, but his later music gave birth to the dreck that is jazz
fusion, and I don't see that as
> an important contribution to rock history. His best music was in
the early '60s and he was
> definitely in the jazz camp at the time.
>
> Wray, on the other hand, was the predecessor of hard rock and the
master of the power
> chord, and those contributions resonated through The Who to The
Ramones and The
> Pixies to present day mega-punk rockers, Green Day. And about
1,000,000 other bands.
> Even 2006 R'n'R HoF inductees Black Sabbath and The Sex Pistols
owe a great deal to Link
> Wray!
>
> As for Dale, I think we all agree that he deserves a place in rock
history for pioneering surf
> music and driving amplification technology as the testing ground
for Leo Fender in the
> 1960s.
>
> Hmph. Time to get off my soapbox!
>
>
>
>
> --- In , Richard <errant_jedi@> wrote:
> >
> > There's been a looooooot of Link worship on this list
> > the last couple of years. I think you just missed the
> > bulk of it. There's no shortage of admiration for the
> > guy in this circle.
> >
> > Richard
> >
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