April 6, 2024
I never realized just how much influence Link Wray had on Rock 'N' Roll until I heard and saw Jimmy Page play Wray's signature instrumental with total reverence.
Jimmy Page Does Justice to "Rumble"
Daily Whip Out: "Link Wray Slays"
A Tune With "Profound Attitude"
"Rumble" is is the only instrumental banned from the radio! And someone online described it as "short, loud and raw." It has also been pegged by some as the birth of heavy metal. Jimmy Page said it has "profound attitude." Amen.
Mix Praise
"Stuart, the Tom Mix article you and BBB finished for your father (I wish I'd known him) and published in the March/April of TRUE WEST is the most informative and interesting piece on the Straight Shooting, Straight Riding, and Straight Driving (with one fatal exception) hero of some 400 B-Westerns I've ever read. The art accompanying the text is almost as interesting as the writing.
We were out on the Mother Road, cruising for the West Coast
Heading for the promised land, gonna make a last stand
The dashboard's sizzling, radiator's fizzing
all the windows down, the air is like a furnace
Dad is drivin' faster, tryin' to hide his grimace
the dog is close to heatstroke, the backseat is smokin'
mama spies the billboard, gives us the whoop sign
Saved by the Flying A, what else can we say
Jugs Iced Free, a lifesaver for humanity
Jugs Iced Free, saved from insanity.
Daddy's goin' bonkers, dodging all the honkers
Passing 20 semis, on narrow, scary roadways
two-lane blacktop shimmers on the horizon
heatwave highways and blisters on the dog's paws
But then Mama spied the road sign
And we were saved from calamity
Jugs Iced Free, we were all insanely happy.
Repeat, as needed.
"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."
—Albert Camus
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