Link Wray - Ace of Spades

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 02/01/2017 at 14:39 • Filed to: None

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Make all your Pulp Fiction references in the replies.

HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/01/2017 at 14:46

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This is all I can think about when I hear “ace of spades”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HammerheadFistpunch 02/01/2017 at 14:52

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Other acceptable references would have included The Young Ones.

Nauraushaun > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/02/2017 at 05:51

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Jesus, Tarantino sure knows how to pick them

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nauraushaun 02/02/2017 at 09:14

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A lot of early guitar talents lay forgotten for years through the late 70s-early 90s. Link Wray was a huge inspiration to the early fathers of hard rock and metal (what to play), and Bert Weedon in technique and skill (how to play), but the average man on the street has never heard of either. Slightly less the case in the UK than the US, or was, because Link Wray stayed popular in the UK longer.

At any rate, he’s the prototype for all simple-chord distorted crushing riff guitar, so without him you might never have seen an AC/DC or Motorhead - certainly never would have seen Zeppelin or the Who, as Link Wray directly inspired Jimmy Page *and* Pete Townshend.