Link Wray - Interview - 11/01/1984

[@markbell8820]

This guy is the strictest definition of cool.

[@clc-gl4jn]

Personified.

[@scottclark9421]

Coolest man who ever lived

[@jimthethirdprobably]

@@danielmoore94 what?

[@phillynott1060]

He really is you know.

[@billyboy1093]

"My music is alive and I'm alive and it will always be alive" Preach it Link!

[@bigmonmagoomba9634]

It may take another 50 years but eventually the world will get hip enough to give Link his proper respect.

[@finallythere100]

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]

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]

Wray was just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a few days ago, so that's something.

[@neilwood8794]

Right on brother ✌️

[@danthegreaser71]

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

[@StratBurst92]

Took them long enough but Link is now finally in the Rock & Roll hall of fame!

[@nicocacci4070]

Money can't buy talent ..link you were talented beyond millionaires. Legend.R.I.P

[@infoscholar5221]

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.

[@henkejohansen4563]

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

[@jasonlee8497]

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!

[@JCKnuckles]

He is very humble. He was the epitome of COOL. Go Link Wray.

[@antonematos6241]

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]

😂 Joey Ramone as well

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

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.

[@customconcern1]

What a bad ass

[@markmoretzfishing]

Damn it I wish I’d seen Link live!!!!

[@curtisconrad3668]

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]

That is the only explanation that makez any sense! He was from another Planet Earth, the planet where Love rules.

[@michaelbaker5547]

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.

[@jsmith3980]

Great interview. A true American legend and revolutionary.

[@adamsmith3996]

He had a brother named Ray Wray. Just 1 more reason to love link wray !

[@zem1272]

His brother’s name was actually Vernon Wray “Ray Vernon” was an alias.

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

Like Boutros Boutros Ghali UN fame.

[@mattmiller9885]

Proud be from same Hometown Wray was from! True Artist ‼️🤘🏻R. I. P. Legend!!

[@janedvinsson]

Link is honest! It is what it is, nothing more or less. So many heard something there to build upon, that's great!

[@stevefaure415]

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.

[@1968ANTman]

"I don't consider myself a great musician.I consider myself a average guitar player who looks for sound".

[@garydelcourt2791]

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]

​@@garydelcourt2791...or just jam for fun and improvise.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Link was 890 years old at this point! Dang ya just born a rocker or not! Miss you Link

[@deaddiver3768]

The father of distortion and the power chord

[@jakepepper2279]

Coolest rocker ever, Link Wray.

[@mikedunker7354]

Love this guy

[@bingonamo7520]

He peppers each sentence with "you know", the way that kids today pepper theirs with "like".

[@written12]

Who is the young woman next to him?

[@bingonamo7520]

@@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.

[@theAxehound]

Coolest dude ever!!

[@eureka413]

Someone needs to make a movie about this guy

[@SeeCSeesCC]

❤️ meant to be here and walk among us and show us his gold

[@whimpypatrol5503]

Amazing.

[@curtisconrad3668]

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]

Link was the "Apex" of his career. He left a steady situation to go play with him.

[@darlenedrummer8478]

❤

[@markmoretzfishing]

Now I see we’re Stray Cats got there influence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@donna1960]

"YA KNOW"..RIP...Link Wray🎶🎸🎵🎼

[@markmarkofkane8167]

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.

[@ericseabury3968]

The man was a genius.

[@TOMLINBISH]

Link's performance of Rumble at Capitol Theatre in 1984 is absolutely mind blowing! 🙂

[@Thurston86]

Link F’ing Wray!!! 🤘👽🙏👽🙏👽🎸

[@christredeau3516]

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.

[@kryptichands968]

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.

[@henryfrost8542]

Brilliant unique Rocker 🎸😎

[@johnnymossville]

He literally influenced all the greats.

[@feltongailey8987]

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.

[@written12]

Those guitarists he mentioned were great jazz players. People like George Bares and Jimmy Smith

[@Soundofsilence-j4d]

Wow he look great in 1984 great looken guy. Loved Jack the ripper

[@James_Barris]

If Chuck Berry is the father of Rock & Roll…….Link Wray is the father of Punk.

[@dyangordon6151]

Great man,he seemed happy!..just wish he made more money!..he is a great picker..

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Well, if he was happy, then more money isn’t needed.

[@markferguson3745]

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.

[@2113rush]

Awesome

[@lagpressure]

He got his due.... how many musicians get inducted into the RRHOF by Jimmy Page?

[@michaelmega7786]

Reminds me of Elvis . 😃

[@djinnmagik1473]

Super cool cat! I surround myself with good musicians too. YOU HAVE TO 🔥🎶🔥 "I love 'Rumble'." GREAT TRACK 💎

[@anthonyforrester3539]

Link Wray and Robert Gordon - see Gordon’s tribute - there was heartfelt respect - don’t cry😛

[@2341-l4j]

💯 southern man

[@adrinathegreat3095]

It made no. 16 in 1958, find it hard to imagine it shifted a million copies

[@MojoMedicineMan]

👍👍

[@McPuNks]

Everyone talks about Rumble 🙄 What about Fire and Brimstone??

[@SHENDOH]

🤘🏼

[@robbasso893]

Link could’ve had a song called “Ya Know?”😉

[@BlueRidgeMtns100]

Link's guitar did his talking.

[@antonematos6241]

Lmao

[@liamdean1935]

Hahaha

[@heliomariano6490]

" there is no rock and roll then... " Say one of the fathers of rock

[@normanbeach7855]

not enough credit for his music and playing!

[@martysquires1291]

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

[@snakewhitcher4189]

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.

[@snakewhitcher4189]

There's a smell coming from somewhere in my house. It's boardering on noticable.

[@snakewhitcher4189]

There's not a rumble but look at what we got.

[@snakewhitcher4189]

You should stop talking. I think you died. I'm still going to hit that E.

[@duncanbruce3899]

Did you stab your tweeter?

[@beachbarlouie]

How do you get that cool?

[@user-mp5gc1vc6d]

He say one brothers name is ray? Ray wray?

[@ThomasDeLello]

How many times did he say "you know"...???

[@snakewhitcher4189]

You know? I Don't know shit. Except how to die on time with the music. Here I go. I'm doing it now.

[@paulcooper-n2v]

He influenced jimmy page.

[@waynehawkins7581]

A real original

[@SpeedTriple59]

Man Link was cool...

[@nathanyazzie9044]

✌😎🚬👍

[@Deadwhacks62]

Y’know?

[@GenericSpace]

"...ya know..."

[@deedrabbit]

Where did he get the shirt??

[@chadkline4268]

He didnt have an easy life. As far as im concerned, Link was a foundation and influence for many aspects of RnR.

[@user-mp5gc1vc6d]

I dont know

[@silvereddusk]

Y'know? ;)

[@garydelcourt2791]

You’re not a true southern rocker unless you have a guy named Shorty involved in the music..

[@eagleflight7501]

How did Halsey get back to 1984

[@michaelshiflett4835]

Who’s that girl next to him?

[@Cleofizoid]

Why did he have an "Australian" accent?

[@timcarr6401]

He seems to be a lover of classical literature; y'know?

[@zippitydoodah8771]

He was like 54 here.

[@lakenrosekendall5449]

Ya know

[@Pravindaswani74]

Who is she??

[@jwkoeniger]

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.

[@davefloyd9443]

"It was all soda pop, I didnt dig it, at all"

[@bogeyman38111]

Who is the girl?

[@bearclaw007]

She is damn sexy.

[@bloodmapedit]

@@bearclaw007 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ7YZ6alnrGWZq8

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

His danish wife Olive.

[@boop8127]

She wants to talk so bad

[@buckshot6481]

She looks so bored.

[@turbostatic1]

Naw, she's just got the bubblegum teen thing down pat....nice 80s arm candy

[@dickrush4178]

I don't think that she speaks much English.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

it’s his danish wife Olive so she propably speaks good english.

[@romandybala]

She's not bored . She knows what she's got and so does he.

[@BB-je8hm]

quit saying YOU KNOW!