Talk:Link Wray

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Contents 1 Death? 2 Rocket 88? 3 'rumble' article 4 Invention of fuzz-tone

[edit] Death?

I haven't seen any confirmation of his death. Link? googuse 09:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[1] - David Gerard 14:09, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

I have seen confirmation of Link's death here: In Spanish: http://actualidad.terra.es/cultura/articulo/fallece_link_wray_603381.htm

In Danish: http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=408895

but not the date or cause of his death, just that he had already died by Nov. 18th.

The stupid American press seems to not give a damn.

CNN finally reported...a nice article but over 2 weeks late! [2] SkaTroma 17:43, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rocket 88?

The article links to Rocket 88 but the connection between Wray and Rocket 88 is not made clear. Can someone make the connection clear. Or remove the link if it is an error. Nurg 09:19, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Isn't this just a reference to the damaged amplifier being partly responsible for the sound in both Rocket 88 and Rumble? I don't think any other connection is being made. Oylenshpeegul

[edit] 'rumble' article

seeing as it was such an important song, i think an article on it would be very beneficial. Joeyramoney 04:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invention of fuzz-tone

This should be re-worded; fuzz-tone had happened accidentally previously, when amps had been damaged. One guitarist in particular broke his amp by dropping it but never had it repaired 'coz he liked the new sound. Wray was the first person to deliberately damage his amp to get a fuzz-tone (influenced by the aforementioned guitarist), not the first to make use of such a sound.

I got this info from Total Guitar mag, but unfortunately it's at home and I'm at uni so I can't properly source it!

Anyway, I'm still removing that info, as well as the info regarding his use of feedback as that's also inaccurate.Stratpod 21:50, 5 February 2007 (UTC)