LINK WRAY Branded / fuzz guitar inst. promo / 1965 (Hear It)
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LINK WRAY
BRANDED
Link Wray may never get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but his contribution to the language of rockin' guitar would still be a major one, even if he had never walked into another studio after cutting "Rumble."
Quite simply, Link Wray invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists. Listen to any of the tracks he recorded between that landmark instrumental in 1958 through his Swan recordings in the early 1960s and you'll hear the blueprints for heavy metal, thrash, you name it. Though rock historians always like to draw a nice, clean line between the distorted electric guitar work that fuels early blues records to the late-'60s Hendrix-Clapton-Beck-Page-Townsend mob, with no stops in between, a quick spin of any of the sides Link recorded during his golden decade punches holes in that theory right quick.
If a direct line from a black blues musician crankin' up his amp and playing with a ton of violence and aggression can be traced to a young, white guy doing a mutated form of same, the line points straight to Link Wray, no contest. Pete Townsend summed it up for more guitarists than he probably realized when he said, "He is the king; if it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
THIS SINGLE is from the spring of 1965 and pairs up “Branded” and “Hang On.” What a cool, wiggly, freaked out guitar on this one! Note that the title on this promo is simply “Branded” where the stock copies were “I’m Branded.” Perhaps it was after an injunction letter from the TV show’s attorneys. This is a promo and the flipside has been marked out by some sensitive DJ.
CONDITION: NEAR MINT with writing on one label side only.
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