Link Wray-Jack the Ripper

[tjoens10]

very nice song

[TheMrGnar]

Sounds like earthless's sonic prayer. Look it up and see for your self.

[kjb1022]

insanely ahead of his time....one of the best artists you've never heard of

[Bangmasterfull]

hallucinant... 

[sinthetix1]

...like a BOSS

[TONYDANGERtv]

The day of my funeral, I want this song to be playing in the hearse on my way to my Tombstone! and the volume to it's highest level possible, with my switchblade in my hand ;)

[Hubbleknarf]

4:00 that picture sums up this song perfectly

[r0yalgate]

omg

[r0yalgate]

jennique your the hottest ever

[kulak10]

No way, The quality is to good for early 60s

[space11monkey]

jimi is the master yew stupid deaf fuck! sure link wray is awesome but he's no jimi

[RussellClank]

@space11monkey Without Link Wray, there would be no Jimi, you historically challenged cocksucker.

[tunepeddler]

@RussellClank lol!

[ibanezxz500]

and they say jimi was the master...

[SUPERTOASTER45]

awesome solo

[SUPERTOASTER45]

i love this song

[Vasilouxxx]

I have RUMBLE up on Facebook ;-) 

[tadskeets]

@ntheAttic Well... from all of us thank you for spreading the good sound! i just heard of link wray today from an old guy that fitted me for my grad suit, he was playing the gnarliest roy buchanan solo and we got talking and he told me how links instrumental rumble was banned back in the day. i thought thats the most badass thing i've ever heard!!

[fearofclowns1989]

@tadskeets Gnarliest? Badass? It's 2011. Oh, your interests are marijuana.. that explains it.

[gnomeofwar]

Truly a man wayyy ahead of his time

[Deefanan666]

jack the ripper is the perfect name for this song.. jack the ripper himself was crazy and links guitar playing is nuts.. he was way ahead of his time

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

Where did feedback and distortion come from? Link may have helped create the sound, but likely other folks did, too. Why? Because in the 1950s and early 1960s, you most often coundn't get amps with enough power - so you turned up your Fender Princeton or Deluxe Reverb as high and hot as it would go - and it would distort and break up. You play a guitar (especially a semi or hollow body) near a really loud amp, and that sucker is gonna feedback for days. Link would have dug it big-time.

[Beelzebrad667]

@GeorgiaBoy1961 The word is link got pissed in the studio and slammed a couple pencil holes in his speaker and chucked his guitar. The result was a rumble like no other. Real rock and roll, primordial and raw. He may not have been the first but he was the best.

[27wingnut]

BOSS!!!!!!

[securitycat11]

I am 56 and till I found him here I had no Idea who Link Wray was Bad ass players

dont screw with my new fav power player

[ZphyArtist]

The way i see it, copyright infringes on freedom to play how I wanna play...let it all go and watch the record sales improve instead of plummet the way it has been suffering the past 3 or so years. Record eecs need to lay off the sufferance and realize they produce madness when they say their wallets are emptying out when others so-called pirate their sounds. I believe another said it best the radio stations certainly don't play it so why tamper with a revolutionary way of introduction.

[hellcat54]

a great version.Thanks

[Diogenes1360]

Hey, Jack! Pass me your Knife! I gotz some cuttin to do.......

[szolDat]

2:10 is that some d&b? D:

[ZoldZsolt]

No,but we should get Pendulum or Sub Focus on this sound; see if they can get out some cool dnb version,coz the original is like designed to be remixed:D

[marc25052005]

which yeay is this song?

[jackhorkheimer]

Should be noted that this is live (I believe0

[MrJas1991]

The bassline is so good

[engineofdoom]

Link Wray on acid

[missionrd100]

RIP Link Wray. Long live Link Wray!

Where would the Yardbirds, Kinks, the Who, and everyone else be without you showing the way? Long live Rock!

[charlyinfrance]

checkout johnny gunner and the raiders

well influenced

[largelester]

this is beyond any of the beatles ability

[Krosstika1]

@largelester thats not true at all

[lupocephalic]

@largelester

Agreed. Behold the superiority of rock over pop. The Beatles were never a rock band.

[chuckeseats]

I can't believe I never heard of this guy.  I love this shit!

[ralphcraddock]

@jeffbeckgeek1  yeah!

[Satchmoeddie]

So much for that bullshit claim the Beatles were the first white men to record feedback. Radio DJs should maybe have at least a clue before making up facts. Unfortunately when I looked up radio stations in my city the English language ones were owned by 3 large corporations. Then there are a couple Spanish ones. The laws need to be rewritten for FCC licensing requirements. This megacorp shit is why radio sucks so bad, and God help you if you try to broadcast decent programming. Jail & fines 4YA

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@Satchmoeddie: You are so right... the Beatles probably heard it from Link or maybe from one of Chet Atkin's or Les Paul's recordings, which also experimented with it. Legend has it that Link discovered feedback by playing through a blown speaker, or some accounts say he shoved a pencil through his speaker cone to see what would happen when he played... the rest is guitar history. And talk about menace in his style and sound!

[CoolestOstrich]

He's like a bridge between blues/r'n'b in 50's and heavy metal in 70's

[Harbinification]

Fantastic man.

Thank you for putting this together.

[Alphabex8]

i don't think this is the original recording but this dude got more & more raw the older he played. i fucking love him

[argonman14]

this song is so f*ck'n great! love it! cool groove, killing guitar sound!

[hustler987]

Never be another Link Wray!!!

[TheLaughingMan69]

A true Pioneer of Rock.

[gunsanddrugs]

prime evil, fuckin raw... an you corporate fuckers.. take away my music.. i kill ya.. ok!

[ptdatnurpipensmkit]

it kinda like hot rod, surf rock, rockabilly fusion....shit is awesome

[ar4216]

This is kickass. What is this genre of music called- surf rock or something like that.

[davidzimmerman]

Heavy Metal, 1961!

[badjohnfaglie]

Man, listen to Link playin' w/ the feedback. That is absolutely sick!

[OXaudiovisual]

White Stripes covered the Screamin Lord Such - Jack the Ripper.. different song dood.

[spib65]

This is the last track of Link Wray's 1975 album on Virgin records entitled 'Stuck in gear'.

'Jack the ripper' played live at ' The Lyceum' in London, England.

The best track & only live track on the entire album, the rest being studio efforts recorded at 'Ridge farm, near Dorking, in Surrey.

Not one of his best album's, but this track compensates. I wonder if there is anymore from that concert out there?.

[TheDeadEnemy]

i can see why jack white did a cover on this

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

about 30 years ahead of his time

[troxyprojy]

just like Eddie : Cochran ! superb !

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

@troxyprojy

Exactly!

[rodan01]

The music's good without the

projected "South will rise again"

horseshit.

[crackerHero]

oh shut up it fucking will

[clarkewi]

Possibly the greatest guitar anthem of all time. Timelss, eternal - pure punkabilly, white trash, surf, redneck Riviera, dirty south, white lightning. I can hear the cicadas in the palmetto groves. The South Shall Rise Again! You can hear "Third Stone From The Sun" (Rip. Jimi )

[funnystuff1284]

thank god for link wray

[lllthepublicenemylll]

i dont know about the distortion but im sure he was the first to use power chords...

[GreatDylan420]

whats a power chord

[craigdamage]

a chord that can kick other chord's asses.

[falconium]

L.M.A.O.

[jarirusi]

@craigdamage Man, you said it.

[sproutbassman]

dudewhosaysarrh

I think that story is about Ike Turner and Rocket 88.

Link put a hole in his speaker with a pencil.

[Bluebuthappy182]

This still sound modern now, must have sounded like it was coming from another planet back when it was first released.

[dudewhosaysarrh]

yeah, after all Link Wray "invented" distortion, by accident. According to legend, a tube in his amp was half knocked out of its socket after the amp was dropped. When Link wray powered it up again the result was a distorted tone. When one of the studio techs was about to fix the damage, Wray told him to leave the amp as it was, since he had taken an instant liking to the tone. which became his trademark. Subsequently Fender developed amps with a slight overdrive option.

[mohawksaresexy2]

funny story.. i heared the exact same incident happened to neil young when he was walking up onto the stage for the live version of my my hey hey or the other song hey hey my my .. same exact story....hmmmmm someone is making stuff up and lying to us..

[funnystuff1284]

thank you wikipedia

[nrobnas43]

And God said, " Let there be Youtube" and there was Youtube. I just found out about Link Wray this morning after searching for the song Jimmy Page was grooving to in "It might get Loud". The song he liked was Rumble but I like Wrays other tunes as well, or even better.

[TaffyRaphie]

same deal for me, i was looking up this cuz of the movie too!

[torpf]

I just got back from a vacay in w palm beach and my mother told me that in the early 60s they'de see Link Wray in venues around town in Maryland. Tghis was toward the end of his carreer. Jimmy Page mentioned in the recent rockumentary "I t Might Get Loud" that Wray was one his influences as a guitarist. Awesome!

[louis365]

@nrobnas43 Same deal for me - Since Page expressed so much admiration for this guy, I had to find out about him. LED rules all

[BrothuhRabbit]

I want some hair like that!

[wellgoodsafeperson]

What is the origin of this track? It isn't the original studio version (feedback didn't exist until The Beatles' "I Feel Fine" in '64) Where can I get it from? I want it NOW!

[maccy69]

I'm pretty sure it's a live version from 1976 and is the last track on the compilation "Rumble! The Best of Link Wray" on Rhino Records. If you search for Jack the Ripper (1961) you'll find a video of the original - which is also great, but not as feedbacky. I don't why people marked you down, it seems like a reasonable comment and question.

[AlbertMondback]

Win.

[FazlokAaAaAaA]

3:39 ANOYING! reminds me of quagmire

[thenewtalkingguitar]

this is truly one of the greatest songs of all times.

[kingdorkenstein]

bad ass

[ianswinfield]

Top Tune.......

This is the first i have heard of Link.........Awesome

[ultimatebozo]

There is always going to be forces that say, I own the riches of this culture, and you must pay me"And there will always be such people as Link Wray, and others, there to stand in their way, and say "Fuck You"... thanks for posting this- peace

[actooon]

********

[AntiMercyDude]

why cant music today be like dis instead of

p-diddy 50 cent rihanna and some other bullshit

of todays crap

[WillFierce]

the first to punch holes in his amp

[OropherThranduil]

he wasn't the first one and didn't punch them in:

the firsr sonf with this sound was rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston with Ike Turner:

The legend of how the sound came about says that Kizart's amplifier was damaged on Highway 61 when the band was driving from Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee, but Phillips liked the sound and used it. Robert Palmer has written that the amplifier "had fallen from the top of the car", and attributes this information to Sam Phillips. [3][4]

[OropherThranduil]

However, in a recorded interview at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, Ike Turner stated that the amplifier was in the trunk of the car and that rain may have caused the damage; he is certain that it did not fall from the roof of the car. Link Wray had a similar story.

[ninyae]

The idiots have taken down Rumble. Listening to it on You Tube made me go out and buy it. When are these protectors of copyright gonna get it?

[ntheAttic]

The way I see it is I'm doing free advertising for music.

Maybe they should pay me for it!

[ninyae]

Dead right! The thick heads just don't get it! You Tube is bringing alive more than 50 years of rock to people of all ages. Ain't no fucking radio stations doing it.

[ntheAttic]

Youtube is a cultural site.Not a corporate one. They should fuck off.

[helderm]

agreeded

[syr1811]

Strongly agree, but my guess is they will continue, and it probably will change for the worse. This is Great, Attic.

[prowokator]

Yeah, I uploaded some tracks from a band called The Centurians (or the Centurions), and their bass player thanked me personally for doing that, and one guy from The Revels too.. a couple months later some faceless corporate told youtube to take em down.. Makes sense? Hell no...

[ntheAttic]

I've been lucky with the corporate whores so far, none have come my way.

[mcul2112]

@prowokator good effort, bro. least the band's appreciate it.....

[Satchmoeddie]

@prowokator Sony is buying this stuff up and somehow thinks it will sell itself or something. I think it just just fucking dumb! If people can't hear it first they sure as HELL won't buy it and thus it shall sit in some vault and decay. Sony should piss up a rope, pound sand up their asses or find another hobby that suits them. Buying up classical music of Americana, and locking it away is just wrong! These old presses and tapes aint gonna make anyone a damn dime. Let us enjoy them.

[wnstardis]

@prowokator ,

I'm sure The Centurians were cool with that, but I bet they are not the ones making money from any sales. The faceless corporate held the money making rights. Sucks, don't it......

An artist who has been there.

[wnstardis]

@prowokator ,

I'm sure The Centurians were cool with that, but I bet they are not the ones making money from any sales. The faceless corporate held the money making rights. Sucks, don't it......

An artist who has been there.

[gptvproductions]

@ntheAttic you tube doesn't remove any video. It's the record companies themselves that do the removing. They have sound recognition software. Warner Brothers takes down everything. I agree with you they should take a cue from the record companies that use you tube to put up ads for buying the song on itunes and what not.

Link Wray and the Wraymen were the shit though. Thanks for posting.

[yummiestvirus]

Amen To That all you hear on the radio is about Chris Brown Beating up Rihanna Which is whats typically sung in rap songs

[LDSBASS]

Ha, ya know its funny, they "sing" about doing that kind of thing in songs, then theres this fucking media spectacle when it happens... you think these cats are just makin' this shit up? Of course they beat their broads, for fucks sake.

But enough about that, what the fuck happened to rock and roll?

[Jnkdog]

@ninyae "Ain't no radio stations doing it"....That's right man. If they did, they'd have listeners again and advertisers. Awesome music....

[noodlam]

@ntheAttic Exactly. I am in my 50's and still like CDs for their superior sound quality and art. My collection has grown 150% since I started researching music on YouTube. Thanks for this on which is crisp.

[anbanana89]

@ntheAttic not.

[goblazinakis]

They are the same breed of greedy money pigs that have just brought down the economy in the western world. You got to thank them really, for bringing back the reality and grit to the world.

[ninyae]

True

[HelloAgain151]

@ninyae I think your answer lies within your question itself, grasshopper.

[grtdebater]

soooo ahead of his time

[lr2025]

4kin AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!

[johnny576375]

Jack The Ripper on the Desperado soundtrack is different to this one. Did Wray record more than one version?

[AntiMercyDude]

link owned the beatles  besides this sounds relly heavy for 60s

[ninyae]

I remember in a very early episode of Happy Days, there was a very cool, rough rock band that came to their town to play. Happy Days must have modelled that band on Link Wray and co. Always wondered who it was based on.

[ninyae]

This song was released April 6, 1963! Fooking hell, the world had not quite switched on to the Beatles and this guy was already doing this type of stuff! What a legend! Unbelievable!

[ri2k]

desperado anyone?

[DKsmiles]

what a legend. Pioneer of loud music in general, but more in the grunge sense than in the metal sense.

[Animatronica]

Heavy fucking metal of the 60s... damn man, how could he live with that atrocious guitar tone? :D

[ntheAttic]

LOL! Thats What he was credited for; a nasty guitar tone. Precusor to Metal, punk ect,,

[CharlieAstro13]

Link Wray for fucking ever!!!!!

[Erkele]

Fantastic. LOISTAVAA !!! - Erde

[limpnoodledagain]

Snag & Hotel Lonliness are 2 I'd like to see on Youtube...

[ntheAttic]

Youtube seems to just have his better known tunes. I dont have those 2 songs but I intend to upload more soon.

[XtremaDiva]

ive never heard of this guy before but i like it!

[acidxiao]

Bravooooo!

Thanks for posting!

[ntheAttic]

Thanks for the Wray trivia. Your a lucky guy to have him in your family, I consider the guy rock n roll royalty.

A new wife that banishes his kids? shame on her that bitch.

Child support was something that was soley Links responsability though,,Link the deadbeat dad?

[dallascboyz6]

this guy is actually my great uncle. i never really knew him but i would have liked to remember him. my aunt (his ex. wife) always had trouble once they divorced cause his new wife, didn't like his children, so they never got to see him, and they were never given child support. haha just to let you know.

[ShayneWray13]

Really good

[saian140202]

aijajajajajajajajaaaaaaaaaaa!

amigo, supa

[boogynights]

nice I love this song.

[DIOTD2008]

Now THATS what I'm talkin' about!!.

5 stars all the way.

[Glotzsack]

awesome