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Davie Allen! who can forget Davie Allen and the Arrows Symphany
Orchastra ,as the Dee Jay here useta say.(I spelled it like he said
it)Blues Theme,I can see it all now,we'll get these Harley chops,
ride out to Les Pauls grave,& dig him up ,to have a few beers with
him.then whip out our git tars,and proceed to play bongo party.boy
oh boy love to play that biker music,I'm pullin your leg,in the
movie ya see there was this guy The Loser,ah oh well ya probably
didn't see it.lol Tom, "Bob Steingraber" <bobsteingraber@...>
wrote:
>
> 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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