Money can't buy talent ..link you were talented beyond millionaires. Legend.R.I.P
@billyboy10939 ай бұрын
"My music is alive and I'm alive and it will always be alive" Preach it Link!
@bigmonmagoomba96343 жыл бұрын
It may take another 50 years but eventually the world will get hip enough to give Link his proper respect.
@finallythere100 Жыл бұрын
Don’t think the interviewer got how creative LR was in creating his own instrumental sounds. He didn’t reply to LR but asked to see his Elvis Tee shirt after he finished reeling the guy how he created unique sounds. If the interviewer did t get it, any wonder it’s been taking the rest of the world so long..
@djinnmagik1473 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Especially here in The States where they brainwash us with a bunch of fake prefabricated Sound Artists! Link is one of the REAL ones much like myself. 💖🎨🎶 LoVe2P∆int$ound
@slimturnpike Жыл бұрын
Wray was just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a few days ago, so that's something.
@neilwood87945 ай бұрын
Right on brother ✌️
@henkejohansen45633 жыл бұрын
Talked to Link and his wife backstage after a great gig in barbue club , copenhagen late 80's Lovely people. Got mr Wrays autograph and i still have it. A true hero
@jasonlee84972 жыл бұрын
You can see him get excited as the interview progresses . Dude is in love with his music and his lovely wife. You can see it!
@StratBurst923 ай бұрын
Took them long enough but Link is now finally in the Rock & Roll hall of fame!
@infoscholar522110 ай бұрын
Link was the Great Grandaddy, and Iggy will tell you so. RIP. I played punk in my teens - early 80s hardcore. Now, almost sixty, I dig the Country/Rockabilly/Punk trifecta, that is this man's legacy. Go brightly, brother. Kicks, joy, darkness.
@danthegreaser7124 күн бұрын
I’ve been playing guitar since I was 14 years old and I’m now in my 50’s and still playing and I owe it all to Link Wray because if I’d never heard his music I would of probably never even picked up a guitar and learned to play. He is the king of Rock N Roll guitar 🎸 Long Live Link Wray
@JCKnuckles3 жыл бұрын
He is very humble. He was the epitome of COOL. Go Link Wray.
@antonematos3 жыл бұрын
Link Wray not only influenced a generation of instrumental artists from the 60’s, he also influenced Paul McCartney to say the phrase “Y’know” in every other sentence!
@1968ANTman Жыл бұрын
😂 Joey Ramone as well
@michaelbaker55472 жыл бұрын
He seems really happy at this point in the 80s- which makes me happy. He’s a valued member of the rock ‘n’ roll pioneers crew, and he deserved happiness just based on his contribution to music and culture.
@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын
Link Wray , the Angel that fell tobEarth. I hope you can see the smiling faces you left down here on Earth when you look down.
@customconcern13 жыл бұрын
What a bad ass
@curtisconrad36683 жыл бұрын
Link is way too humble. After all he stepped out of a time machine from the future back in 1958 and rock and roll has never been the same
@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын
That is the only explanation that makez any sense! He was from another Planet Earth, the planet where Love rules.
@jsmith39802 жыл бұрын
Great interview. A true American legend and revolutionary.
@adamsmith39963 жыл бұрын
He had a brother named Ray Wray. Just 1 more reason to love link wray !
@zem1272 Жыл бұрын
His brother’s name was actually Vernon Wray “Ray Vernon” was an alias.
@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын
Like Boutros Boutros Ghali UN fame.
@stevefaure4152 жыл бұрын
Link was a cool beyond cool. There's Elvis cool, Eddie Cochran cool, Frank Sinatra Cool even. But Link Wray, that is a whole vast universe of cool that only he inhabits.
@markmoretzfishing Жыл бұрын
Damn it I wish I’d seen Link live!!!!
@janedvinsson4 жыл бұрын
Link is honest! It is what it is, nothing more or less. So many heard something there to build upon, that's great!
@deaddiver37683 жыл бұрын
The father of distortion and the power chord
@mattmiller9885 Жыл бұрын
Proud be from same Hometown Wray was from! True Artist ‼️🤘🏻R. I. P. Legend!!
@krisscanlon40512 жыл бұрын
Link was 890 years old at this point! Dang ya just born a rocker or not! Miss you Link
@bingonamo75203 жыл бұрын
He peppers each sentence with "you know", the way that kids today pepper theirs with "like".
@written1210 ай бұрын
Who is the young woman next to him?
@bingonamo752010 ай бұрын
@@written12 His wife. Who later turned into a complete nutjob, then again, he chose that nutjob and wouldn't leave. There are other video's on here that show how she became in the future. Only she and her child got his inheritance and his other kids got nothing.
@1968ANTman2 жыл бұрын
"I don't consider myself a great musician.I consider myself a average guitar player who looks for sound".
@garydelcourt2791 Жыл бұрын
Music stores are full of guys that can tell you all about music theory and play up and down the fret but couldn’t come up with a riff to save there lives…because music lives in the soul not in the brain.
@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын
@@garydelcourt2791...or just jam for fun and improvise.
@SeeCSeesCC3 жыл бұрын
❤️ meant to be here and walk among us and show us his gold
@theAxehound3 жыл бұрын
Coolest dude ever!!
@curtisconrad36683 жыл бұрын
Wow who would have guessed Anton fig would be one of the greatest drummers of all time drumming for Link Wray and Ace Frehley and the David Letterman show all those years
@giulioluzzardi7632 Жыл бұрын
Link was the "Apex" of his career. He left a steady situation to go play with him.
@jakepepper22793 ай бұрын
Coolest rocker ever, Link Wray.
@mikedunker735410 күн бұрын
Love this guy
@eureka4139 ай бұрын
Someone needs to make a movie about this guy
@whimpypatrol55033 жыл бұрын
Amazing.
@donna19603 жыл бұрын
"YA KNOW"..RIP...Link Wray🎶🎸🎵🎼
@markmarkofkane81677 ай бұрын
I didn't get to hear Rumble until 1988. But when I heard it on the radio (sample), It became my favorite instrumental of all time.
@markmoretzfishing Жыл бұрын
Now I see we’re Stray Cats got there influence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@TOMLINBISH11 ай бұрын
Link's performance of Rumble at Capitol Theatre in 1984 is absolutely mind blowing! 🙂
@ericseabury39683 жыл бұрын
The man was a genius.
@christredeau35163 жыл бұрын
I really like how down to Earth Link is. Link's t-shirt is from Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel which is a blues bar in Providence Rhode Island. I went there a lot in the late 80's to see bands like "Roomful of Blues" and "Max Creek". "SRV & BB King played there. I wish I had the chance to see Link play. He really is genuine.
@feltongailey89873 жыл бұрын
What a down to earth gentleman. Not anything resembling the persona articles I have read made him out to be. Not the howling at the moon stark raving lunatic critics and admirer's have claimed. Thank you Mr. Wray for your contributions to music. Very kind interviewer also.
@johnnymossville3 жыл бұрын
He literally influenced all the greats.
@kryptichands9683 жыл бұрын
My favorite guitar player alongside Dick Dale, but Link has that mind to think outside the box, just listen to genocide, not famous because the title..hell of improv and smoke on that pic.
@darlenedrummer84787 ай бұрын
❤
@henryfrost85422 жыл бұрын
Brilliant unique Rocker 🎸😎
@adrinathegreat30955 ай бұрын
It made no. 16 in 1958, find it hard to imagine it shifted a million copies
@James_Barris Жыл бұрын
If Chuck Berry is the father of Rock & Roll…….Link Wray is the father of Punk.
@markferguson37453 жыл бұрын
The man that invented hard Rock tone.Still remember the first time I heard him live, I thought, - what year is this? Fine looking young woman at his side; maybe didn't make him the millionaire he should have been, but not bad for a half blind, one lunged, "half breed" , Native American( not unlike Elvis, NFN); attitude, good and bad, in spades.
@Soundofsilence-j4d3 жыл бұрын
Wow he look great in 1984 great looken guy. Loved Jack the ripper
@Thurston8625 күн бұрын
Link F’ing Wray!!! 🤘👽🙏👽🙏👽🎸
@written1210 ай бұрын
Those guitarists he mentioned were great jazz players. People like George Bares and Jimmy Smith
@2113rush3 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@dyangordon61513 жыл бұрын
Great man,he seemed happy!..just wish he made more money!..he is a great picker..
@kasperkjrsgaard14472 жыл бұрын
Well, if he was happy, then more money isn’t needed.
@djinnmagik1473 Жыл бұрын
Super cool cat! I surround myself with good musicians too. YOU HAVE TO 🔥🎶🔥 "I love 'Rumble'." GREAT TRACK 💎
@michaelmega77862 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Elvis . 😃
@anthonyforrester353910 ай бұрын
Link Wray and Robert Gordon - see Gordon’s tribute - there was heartfelt respect - don’t cry😛
@lagpressure Жыл бұрын
He got his due.... how many musicians get inducted into the RRHOF by Jimmy Page?
@2341-l4j3 жыл бұрын
💯 southern man
@robbasso8933 жыл бұрын
Link could’ve had a song called “Ya Know?”😉
@BlueRidgeMtns1003 жыл бұрын
Link's guitar did his talking.
@antonematos3 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@liamdean19352 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@snakewhitcher4189 Жыл бұрын
My teeth hurt when I talk about what happens next. Give me the strength lord. The sadness decends upon my heart and I want to die.
@heliomariano6490 Жыл бұрын
" there is no rock and roll then... " Say one of the fathers of rock
@McPuNks Жыл бұрын
Everyone talks about Rumble 🙄 What about Fire and Brimstone??
@snakewhitcher4189 Жыл бұрын
There's a smell coming from somewhere in my house. It's boardering on noticable.
@snakewhitcher4189 Жыл бұрын
There's not a rumble but look at what we got.
@snakewhitcher4189 Жыл бұрын
You should stop talking. I think you died. I'm still going to hit that E.
@duncanbruce38994 ай бұрын
Did you stab your tweeter?
@normanbeach78554 жыл бұрын
not enough credit for his music and playing!
@MojoMedicineMan10 ай бұрын
👍👍
@SHENDOH Жыл бұрын
🤘🏼
@martysquires12917 ай бұрын
I liked Rumble soon as I heard it I didn't think ut was crap I think it was cool n hip I still like it and I'm 56 I had a punk rock band at 17 n a heavy metal band at 23
@beachbarlouie3 жыл бұрын
How do you get that cool?
@snakewhitcher4189 Жыл бұрын
You know? I Don't know shit. Except how to die on time with the music. Here I go. I'm doing it now.
@SpeedTriple592 жыл бұрын
Man Link was cool...
@user-mp5gc1vc6d10 ай бұрын
He say one brothers name is ray? Ray wray?
@waynehawkins75812 жыл бұрын
A real original
@ThomasDeLello3 жыл бұрын
How many times did he say "you know"...???
@jwkoeniger3 жыл бұрын
I was a Colgate freshman Class of ’68 and lived in the third floor corner room on the left front side of the photo. Knowing that I shared physical space with Professor Nathaniel Schmidt who was tried and fired for heresy in 1896 explains a lot. I, too, was summarily dismissed after only one year at Colgate…something about grades, I believe. It was that same year that I discovered the throbbing tones of Link Wray and The Wraymen while swimming in two inches of beer on the basement floor of Kappa Delta Rho. Now at 74 I understand the affect such close proximity to heresy had on an impressionable young man. Thank God I didn’t drown in the basement of KDR and went on to retire from an investment banking career at age 50.
@paulcooper-n2v Жыл бұрын
He influenced jimmy page.
@GenericSpace6 ай бұрын
"...ya know..."
@chadkline4268 Жыл бұрын
He didnt have an easy life. As far as im concerned, Link was a foundation and influence for many aspects of RnR.
@Deadwhacks6212 күн бұрын
Y’know?
@silvereddusk Жыл бұрын
Y'know? ;)
@deedrabbit3 жыл бұрын
Where did he get the shirt??
@nathanyazzie90443 жыл бұрын
✌😎🚬👍
@eagleflight75012 жыл бұрын
How did Halsey get back to 1984
@garydelcourt2791 Жыл бұрын
You’re not a true southern rocker unless you have a guy named Shorty involved in the music..
@michaelshiflett483514 күн бұрын
Who’s that girl next to him?
@zippitydoodah8771 Жыл бұрын
He was like 54 here.
@timcarr6401 Жыл бұрын
He seems to be a lover of classical literature; y'know?