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Shaun Tan

power chords were invented by indigenous (shawnee) musician link wray, who also made history when his song "rumble" became the first and only instrumental single banned from the radio in the us (way back in 1958!!!!!) "rumble" would go on to appear on shows like the sopranos and spongebob squarepants and films like pulp fiction

neshamama

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link wray popularized the modern "power chord" with distortion like the larsen effect in the late 1950s. this 1959 song "comanche" highlights his guitar techniques that played a role in the development of punk and metal.

playing that banned song in the 70s in san francisco:

after death, wray was featured in the 2017 documentary, RUMBLE: the indians who rocked the world. here is an article by one of his biographers if you would like to learn more:

The "Rumble" hitmaker, who grew up in Dunn, didn't embrace his Shawnee heritage until his forties.

sickjacket

Link Wray kicks ass. He wrote one of my favorite albums in a chicken shack and he played guitar so loud he had to put the speakers outside to record the songs. It’s the most “recorded in a chicken shack” album I ever heard in my life, listen to how recorded in a chicken shack this shit is

sahonithereadwolf

He's also arguable the first musician to use distortion because he used a cheap speaker with a hole punched in it, giving him a unique sound. After he got big, a bunch of white boys would imitate him by hunting down the model and manually punching a hole in it with a pencil

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