THE 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS
OF ALL TIME
according
to Rolling Stone Magazine
from the intro....
They built their own guitars, stabbed speaker cones with pencils, shattered instruments and eardrums - all in search of new ways to make the guitar cry, scream, whisper, shout and moan.
Link's entry...
#67 Link Wray
Wray is the man behind the most important D chord in history. You can hear that chord in all its raunchy magnificence on the epochal 1958 instrumental "Rumble." By stabbing his amplifier's speaker cone with a pencil, Wray created the overdriven rock-guitar sound taken up by Townshend, Hendrix and others. Essential recording: "Rumble," Rumble! The Best of Link Wray (1993) (Rhino Records)