this is a fundamental guitar lesson and will save humantiy from shredders, cork sniffers and sweep picking bluesmen for the sake of rock n roll's survival!
For sure! I watched a few vids over his career, ahead of the time when he was young and still raunchy and loud when up there in years. I was lucky Adrian picked some Link songs or I probably would not have ever had the fun of playing them!
'For maximum twang' is almost the most pleasing thing I've ever heard anyone say, nicked, for song album or stage name, and this is my current favourite link wary song, along with black river swamp, thanks Adrian.
Years ago I remember reading a Link Wray interview in which I believe he said that his combo amp had a 15" speaker, which he said he liked to mike from across the room when he recorded. The big rounded guitar sound that gave him, you could really hear on his "Caroline" instrumental! (On his Moonlight Walk album)
I love this lesson. Link Wray is so overlooked when it comes to guitar lessons. Loved your playing on it. I hope you do more lessons like this one. Thank you for this.
Published one year ago and your still teaching people like me how to play great songs…… thank you for all of your work in putting these easy to follow lessons together,, love them
Smashin video Adrian, I think the key word I heard was 'space' something that us guitarist's are a bit afraid of. Link Wray was a master of the 'less is more' school of guitar playing. Good intro video to an awesome guitarist who influenced many including Mr James Page to name but one. Great video Adrian more please
The Real Deal. Got to see Link back in the ‘90’s. I’m still recovering. Thanks very much for this one. All your lessons are great, but this is where I live.
Awesome link tune. Something to keep it fun. I enjoy your vintage guitar collection as much as your teachings. The background decor is equally interesting,thank you for all the effort you out fourth
THANK YOU!!! The assortment of music you choose to cover never let's me down. It's either music I already love OR music that you introduce me to that I love. From punk classics to country twang to Brook Benton's "Rainy Night In Georgia (amazing).
G-R-E-A-T Adrian! I have looked into tutorials on this since a long time but found none really satisfactory. This is it! I can get to work now! A million thanks!
I really liked that! Especially your stepping through the pedals (see what I did there? Dad puns!). I have a reverb, delay and tremolo pedal, but kind of indiscriminately use them. Listening to how you used them and hearing each one individually helped me get a better understanding of them. I just have a Fender Rumble 40, so think I'll toss an overdrive pedal into the mix. Thanks! This is a fun song.
hi fella that was the bees knees, its been a year and a half for me learning the electric guitar wich iv always wanted iv learnt some of eye of the tiger and some of cocaine and some of the loner but i have almost cracked rumble by the great link ray he was amazing just like gary moor ,kind regards mike.
@@acpg I think probably everyone knows now that the playing rhythm and lead simultaneously was just an urban myth. Like landing on the moon. Everyone that went to see them must've been sworn to secrecy, I've tried to do it. I can tell you that having practised for at least 5 minutes it can't be done.
In '68 most amps like a Gibson Custom had a Tremolo Knob which adjusted the speed and a footswitch to turn the effect of and on. (high Tech) My dad had one that I used to play his Les Paul thru. Loads of fun and you could some NOISE.(I was 10).Great content on your channel...have a good one!
I've been playing it wrong, lol. I always thought the opening chord was a G major, but just watched a couple of videos of Link playing this and I can see you are correct.
This is awesome Adrian! Really happy to learn this song from you. I used to kind of stumble my way through it (butchering it really) with my friend who played the drums. It was just so much fun but it will be great to learn it properly now. Thanks!
Hi. Cool video. I've checked my Link Wray record collection. From the 'Link Wray Collection 1956-62' liner notes it states that Jack the Ripper was first released in 1960 on Link's own record label namely Rumble 1000. It was also the first record released from Rumble 1000. A couple of years later 1962-63 Link developed a business relationship with Swan Records with anew release for Jack the Ripper where it reached number 64 on the US Pop Chart. The tremolo sounds like a Supro Amp style. When you listen to the record Link often changes the tremolo's speed during the recording. Link's Brother was the drummer, fantastic technique and rhythm par excellence.
Love your channel and musical selections. Any chance of some Echo and the Bunnymen? Maybe Rescue. I think Will Sergeant is a very underrated guitarist. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Since Jimi Hendrix first used a Lesley speaker cabinet before Roger Mayer invented the Univibe, I'll bet Link is using a Lesley speaker cabinet. Link Wray may have been the first to ever plug a guitar into a Lesley speaker cabinet. I am wondering what he used for fuzz and reverb, probably a room and slashed speaker, effects weren't around back then.
Adrian can really pick out these rare gems of songs. I remember hearing this song on the movie breathless starring Richard Gere. I didn’t know it was link wray. Check out the movie if you haven’t seen it. The soundtrack is incredible. From the same movie I like openings by philip glass and message of love by the pretenders.
My first visceral reaction to wanting to play guitar was probably when I saw Pete Townshend play his patented wind mill strum on a clip from Tommy that I saw on television when I was around 10 years-old. Its been a mixture of lots of noise with periodic forays into more, “serious” 😛 study ever since.
Thanks again Adrian, this is fantastic and really fun to play. I just wanted to say that regarding the gear, I wonder if Link wasn't using one of the cheaper tube amps like the Silvertone 1484. I used to own of those and the tremolo on it was superb - really second to none in my opinion. The reverb was frankly kind of terrible... sort of sounded like a trash can but for this type of sound, I think it would have been pretty much spot on. Regardless of what he actually used, I think you did a great job with getting the sound with your gear!
Good lesson! Say, what year is your Fender Jazzmaster? When Fender started binding the Jazzmaster necks around '67, I only saw the necks with block inlays. But your neck is bound with dotted inlays! [Then heard you say it is a " '65 Reissue" - All set. Cheers!]
Amazing !! Wanted to ask Adrian about the pickup position your neck pickup, the setting appears it's quite low. What is the result of that height for you? Thx for all you do for us !
I saw Link Wray(never knew until just now he was a native American) years ago in NYC-His wife would stand behind him and,while he was playing,she would twirl his waist length hair tied like a ponytail hair in a circle! Junior Brown opened-if you don't know him check into him here-what a unique player-played a GITSTEEL! best song"You're wanted by the police and my wife thinks you're dead" At 2:22 it's the Dolls/Heartbeakers entire life's work.
I heard Junior Brown on the radio just last week, couldn't figure out what was going on, what instrument I actually heard ...so i wasn't very surprised about what I found when i looked him up.
Junior Brown is fantastic! He’s pure old time country, until he lets loose with some incendiary shredding on his own stuff or a Hendrix cover. Great to see live; the records don’t do him justice. And I love My Wife Thinks You’re Dead, one of the funniest lyrics ever.
