link wray

speaking of '50s gtr icons, here's link wray playing "rumble" on conan o'brien back in '98, at which time he'd been playing the song for 40 yrs. back in the '50s, he usedta slash his speakers with razor blades to get _that sound_. link was four yrs younger than my father and kept playing right up until he checked out in 2005. this is how i wanna get old.