Live at the Paradiso

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4022290021745
ASIN: B000026WA6

Release Date: 2005-09-20

Live at the Paradiso

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Tracks:

Blue Sude Shoes
Ace Of Spades
Walk Away From Love
I Saw Her Standing There
Run Chicken Run
She's No Good
Rumble
Rawhide
Subway Blues
Money
Shake, Rattle And Roll
Be-Bop-A-Lula

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Customer Reviews:

Red Hot Guitar Shredding!.......2006-05-09

I can still remember the first time I heard this album 20 years ago. I was turned on to Link Wray's _Bullshot_ by Bo Solomon, a guitarist for the Wild Seeds, when I was living in Austin. A couple of years later I was living in Lubbock and came across a used copy of this album. I didn't know what to expect but when I got the end of side one and Link Wray was doing the ultimate train wreck ending on "Rumble" I was just jumping around on the couch in the living room of my little house-a one bedroom converted garage-screaming at the top of my lungs "Go, old man, go! Rock on!! Ahhhh!!!!!!" and just losing my mind. (I mean, really, Eddie Van Halen will be lucky to have these chops when he is Wray's age when this record was made.)

Wray is best known, of course, for the instrumental "Rumble" which came out in the `50s. A brooding instrumental, the story goes that Wray invented fuzz tone by sticking a pencil through his amplifier speaker to make it rattle. The song charted in the Top 20 and was banned throughout the country because playing it at high school dances was believed to start fights. Wray had and up and down career-lots of acclaim (and you never would have had Jack White but for the grace of Link Wray) but not that many album sales-and late in life relocated to Scandinavia, a hotbed of fifties/rockabilly interest.

There are quite a few compilations of his work available that many cover the many stages of his studio work from `50s instrumentals, to proto-garage `60s psychedelica, to his home recordings in the `70s, the `80s collaborations with Robert Gordon plus some solid solo work, to his late-career European releases. But, although there are several live albums out there, the overall quality-production and playing-on them doesn't even come close to _Live at the Paradiso_. With a solid rhythm section, including David Letterman studio band alumnus Anton Fier on drums, these songs go to show how the skeletal arrangements of his `50s studio work could be nothing short of nuclear live on the stage. Long out of print in the United States and only available as a high-priced import, this album shows up periodically on Amazon in domestic release and is a must-have for any Wray aficionado in particular as well as anyone who loves the note-shredding guitar power trio format.

You can bet I'm ordering a copy to replace my worn-out vinyl version!

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