Link Wray - Rumble [HQ - Best Version]
“Link Wray. Officially a country singer and secretly a rapist of amplifiers, Ray Vernon split his life between a few honest performances (often as a supporting act for Gene Vincent) and his maniacal obsession with searching for a sound that would tear through skin, allowing him, like a scalpel, to open up anything that crossed his path on his Danelectro. Then one day… tired and frustrated… he lunged at his Premier and stabbed the membrane with the first thing that came to his hands: a pencil. The notes of his guitar are still vibrating and sdddreeenng!! Suddenly the sound frays, as if bitten by an electric shock. Thus Rumble is born… So the legend goes, Fuzz was born, that ripping electric sound that crackles and sizzles like a high-voltage cable, so vulgar and trashy that it would take years before it would be digested and crowned as the emblem of the new beat-punk music…”
Thank you, Reverend (6)