Link Wray & John Cipollina

Celebrating JOHN CIPOLLINA’s Birthday on on AUGUST 24 2012! Come join us and watch hours of CELEBRATION in Music & Images ONE TIME ONLY event! Winterland 74 “Rock guitarist Link Wray was born on May 2nd 1929 in North Carolina. (May 2, 1929 -- November 5, 2005) In his 1958 instrumental hit “Rumble,“ Wray invented the power chord, the basis of modern rock guitar-playing from thrash to heavy metal. He is the missing link in the history of rock guitar in that he is not often given credit for being the connection between early blues guitarists and the late ’60s gods“ Link was John’s hero. They spoke the same languages
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