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| Link Wray died November 5th. He was 79. A true original. Nobody sounded like the Link Man before or since. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Too true! :( |
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Location: North Texas | I didn't know he was that old. That's a long life. Remember Links' four track shack? |
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| You mean the chicken coop? |
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Location: North Texas | Right! |
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Location: NJ | I think I saw robert gordon and link wray back in the day but I just don't remember.
I know I had a bunch of the lps...gotta dig them out again |
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Location: North Texas | I've got some Wray records too. They must be 35, or 40 years old. Yikes. |
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Location: NJ | I LOVED that he played a dano long horn back in the day!!!!!! |
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| Wow never heard of this guy? Must be a whole bunch of good music out there I have not tapped into yet. Ahh well
So little time, so many recordings!
Randy |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by alpep:
I LOVED that he played a dano long horn back in the day!!!!!! Isn't someone making longhorn knock offs? I swear I saw them in Vintage Guitar or something. I always thought they looked cool, but figured I'd get my a$$ kicked if I had one, if you know what I mean. |
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Location: NJ | jerry jones makes the knockoffs
the dano reissues were made in japan for a few years then they stopped. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Link was originally from Dunn, NC about 25 minutes due North of Fayetteville. He was a heck of a player. RIP Link. |
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Location: Tennessee | My son recently tried to turn me on to Link Wray and the Raymen ... little did he know that I could dig deep into my vinyl and voila! Sorry to see him go, but 79? I'll take that. |
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Another one bites the dust
