In a previous life, I was the soundman at the Concorde in Brighton, we had Link play a gig there a few years before he died, what a gent he was, deaf as a post, but a really really nice guy. Along with Dick Dale, it was the loudest gig I ever did the sound for, it was punishing, but that’s the volume he played his guitar at.
Thanks for passing on you’re experience Alun, it interesting to know things like the loud volume he played at, also good to know that Dick Dale was the same. 👍
@@xcx8646 Outside the studio and management, I was the first person (besides the bar staff that were working at the time) to hear that record, he premiered at the Concorde and wanted to hear it on the PA before the punters came in, Norman was our regular Friday night DJ. I was your soundman at the Big Beat Boutique.
@@xcx8646 Oh it needed a soundman alright, in that place to PA was around 10K, capacity was 300 and we used to ram in about 500, I was on it, I worked at both the old Concorde and the Concorde II.
I was at that gig, yes bloody loud. Another loud one a year or so previously was the twin bass line-up Soft Boys, my wife stood outside with her hands over her ears - still complaining.
Thanks for this, Adrian. Link Wray's playing may be simple, but it's definitely cool, tremendously iconic and gets to the point of what the essence of rock'n'roll is. Also a great place for beginners to start studying legendary players.
Adrian, you are doing a lot more than providing absolutely outstanding, accessible, and informative guitar and music lessons; because of the music you select and the musicians you feature, you are helping some of the most creative and important works that are too often overlooked endure and get their due. Thank you!
Howdy Adrian .. for those of us who actually were alive back in the 50's and 60's to listen for Link and his Wrays debut hits on AM Radio until special interests pushed back on most the DJ's not to give Link airtime .. Wolfman Jack gave witness testimony about all that .. our family in those days did not think highly of our musical choices .. or playing electric guitars either .. but it paid off as we moved around in different bands in the 60's to make money to live and college .. I want to thank you for your continued interest in Link when you get bored .. keep it coming .. you're building a great historical labor of love library that will live on
Love it when you bust out the Link Wray Adrian, always leaves me feeling like a better player than I actually am 😂 Hey what about a Buddy Holly style video? One of the classic rockabilly guitarists in his own way. Just a suggestion, love everything you post regardless!
Fantastic tutorial, as are all your lessons. Third year in my guitar learning (I'm 58 btw, and rock n' roll from Elvis to the Chats is my music) and your lessons are so detailed and precise without being pedantic, thanks so much!
one of my favorite link wray tracks. i believe before recording a version for epic, he had originally recorded it for his cancelled cadence album as 'creepy'.
Yes! I've been saying to myself, the next time he covers a Link Wray song, I'll have no choice but to sign up on his Patreon - and there it is! Done! Your backing tracks alone are worth it (I like the lessons too, nice and concise). Thanks for all the work you put into these.
Great lesson and playing, Adrian! This is the kind of raw, roots rock and roll that helped touch the hearts of people and put rock and roll on the map Also, the tone is perfect, true to the original, and eminently befitting the song.
Wonderful work Adrian, enjoyed the Link Wray vids & using them to warm up but keep going back to them cos they just sound so good. As always, great big thanks for what you do.
Hi! Been following your chanel back and fouth since about 2016! I really like your content and i think your one of the best guitar teachers on youtube! You really helped me a lot, both in the sence that ive been learning songs, solos and licks but also the way you teach where you never just feed us the notes but rather explaining the context of the peticular notes. It really helps me out when trying to understand the instrument. I also really like the fact that you dont focus on just one genre or the mainstream rock/pop stuff. You dig out some really cool underground gems and ive found som great bands through your channel! I do have a suggestion for somthing that may be an uppcoming project of yours. Theres a lot of music out there, a lot of great music that never reachers the charts or never gets more than a thousend streams on spotify, songs that might be as usefull to learn as any other... Maybe you could try to find and figure out songs made of bands thats practicly unknowned to the world as a way to keep things fresh and benefits small indieartists as well as were getting new stuff to listen to that we othervise wouldnt have found? Bands like Parsimon from Sweden as an example.
Always love the Link Wray tunes. May I suggest a crack at Spider Man, a variation on Black Widow? Its one I've tried to tab out for a long time, but just can't quite get to sound right. Cheers!
Can you do a quick video on some technical stuff like how you hold your pick, tension, angle, grip and all that. Different sorts of picking, left-right hand co-ordination. I know there are lots elsewhere, but I like your teaching style and manner. Cheers
Thanks for explaining this simply Adrian. Definitely a unique guitar style Link Wray had. My first hearing of this song, cheers. This song was written first, though the first riff made me think of the intro to 'God Save the Queen' in terms of similar chords. I also liked the chord changes (Dsus2) later on in 'Radar'.
Have a request for a lesson and some analysis on one of my favourite guitar pieces - the solo at the end of ‘Baltimore’ by Nina Simone. Some of the guitar playing in that song is full of great emotion and energy. Would love to get your thoughts on it aswell as a much needed lesson to produce a similar sound at home! Thanks for the great work !
Adrian, great lessons but in future could you please spell out, so to speak, runs like the pentatonic one in this lesson. I nearly had a mental breakdown getting it! I will think I have it then doubt myself or my mind expects to go one way and it goes another. This is my second attempt to comment as UA-cam seems to have censored my first. I said please think of us slow people but instead of people I wrote a mild expletive with a b, 2gs,1u,an r and an e. Really UA-cam! How come you let everyone else use the f word?!
Thanks Michael. Yes, it's always a bit of a dilemma deciding on the pacing of a video and how much detail to go into. For every person who thinks I'm going too fast there's another who thinks I'm talking to much and being boring. So I just try and strike a bit of a balance, but it won't be right for everyone. If you've not used it, I recommend using the speed function to slow down bits you're struggling with, it's really helpful.
@@acpg thanks for replying. Yes, I understand that you have viewers of different abilities and experience. I'm fairly new to it and in fact just play 3 string guitar and have started adjusting your lessons to fit it. I've never heard of a speed function. I don't know if I have it on this phone. Or is it a UA-cam function? Perhaps you could show a tab on some parts. I know you have tabs on Patreon but don't understand how to use it on my prepay phone. I'm a sad old boomer struggling with technology! Anyway, I'll try and sus out the speed thing. Keep on keeping on!
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In a previous life, I was the soundman at the Concorde in Brighton, we had Link play a gig there a few years before he died, what a gent he was, deaf as a post, but a really really nice guy. Along with Dick Dale, it was the loudest gig I ever did the sound for, it was punishing, but that’s the volume he played his guitar at.
Thanks for passing on you’re experience Alun, it interesting to know things like the loud volume he played at, also good to know that Dick Dale was the same. 👍
@@xcx8646 Outside the studio and management, I was the first person (besides the bar staff that were working at the time) to hear that record, he premiered at the Concorde and wanted to hear it on the PA before the punters came in, Norman was our regular Friday night DJ. I was your soundman at the Big Beat Boutique.
@@xcx8646 Oh it needed a soundman alright, in that place to PA was around 10K, capacity was 300 and we used to ram in about 500, I was on it, I worked at both the old Concorde and the Concorde II.
I was at that gig, yes bloody loud. Another loud one a year or so previously was the twin bass line-up Soft Boys, my wife stood outside with her hands over her ears - still complaining.
Hooray for modern day Bluetooth earpieces.
Thanks for this, Adrian. Link Wray's playing may be simple, but it's definitely cool, tremendously iconic and gets to the point of what the essence of rock'n'roll is. Also a great place for beginners to start studying legendary players.
Adrian, you are doing a lot more than providing absolutely outstanding, accessible, and informative guitar and music lessons; because of the music you select and the musicians you feature, you are helping some of the most creative and important works that are too often overlooked endure and get their due. Thank you!
Link heard it in his head first. And shared it with us. He was a basic genius!
Howdy Adrian .. for those of us who actually were alive back in the 50's and 60's to listen for Link and his Wrays debut hits on AM Radio until special interests pushed back on most the DJ's not to give Link airtime .. Wolfman Jack gave witness testimony about all that .. our family in those days did not think highly of our musical choices .. or playing electric guitars either .. but it paid off as we moved around in different bands in the 60's to make money to live and college .. I want to thank you for your continued interest in Link when you get bored .. keep it coming .. you're building a great historical labor of love library that will live on
Saw Link Wray in late 90s. Loud as hell. A tone most punk bands could only dream about. Turned the air into cottage cheese.
Love it when you bust out the Link Wray Adrian, always leaves me feeling like a better player than I actually am 😂 Hey what about a Buddy Holly style video? One of the classic rockabilly guitarists in his own way. Just a suggestion, love everything you post regardless!
Thanks, Adrian! Never heard this one. Your channel and Patreon page is really helping me put together a 30 minute set of surf guitar.
Just what the end of the week needed. Superior content. Perfect timing.
i love link ray. he's the only guy who impresses me that i feel i can someday sound like
Great stuff, finally a song that I can actually play!
Check out Adrien's other Link Wray lessons. They're all great. LW is the root of rock n' roll.
I just hope Adrian knows he's the absolute fucking best teacher who deserves more views. What a legend. Happy to have him here. All the best mate.
Fantastic tutorial, as are all your lessons. Third year in my guitar learning (I'm 58 btw, and rock n' roll from Elvis to the Chats is my music) and your lessons are so detailed and precise without being pedantic, thanks so much!
one of my favorite link wray tracks. i believe before recording a version for epic, he had originally recorded it for his cancelled cadence album as 'creepy'.
Wonderful, thanks Adrian, been deep diving into Link Wray these past few months, 'jack the ripper' is a blinder!
Yes! I've been saying to myself, the next time he covers a Link Wray song, I'll have no choice but to sign up on his Patreon - and there it is! Done! Your backing tracks alone are worth it (I like the lessons too, nice and concise). Thanks for all the work you put into these.
Adrian binging this morning !!!!!!!!!!
Link Wray was the coolest guitar slinger ever ... and I'm not just saying that, he really was.
More link Wray please sir. My guitar hero
Thanks Adrian! this another clean-clear and interesting informative music lesson. Many thanks!
Love the Link Lessons!!!!
Great lesson and playing, Adrian! This is the kind of raw, roots rock and roll that helped touch the hearts of people and put rock and roll on the map Also, the tone is perfect, true to the original, and eminently befitting the song.
Loved it, sir. Thank you.
Hello Adrian! That's a great tune. Your play and tone is brilliant! 😎💫🎶
Rough&Ready song I admit. Very ,very nice!
Oh yeeeah! Thanks for this! I love primitive rock and roll by the legend, Mr Link Wray !
Thanks Adrian simple but effective, also thumbs up for your music taste and especially for your playing and teaching skills.
Wonderful work Adrian, enjoyed the Link Wray vids & using them to warm up but keep going back to them cos they just sound so good. As always, great big thanks for what you do.
Wow! This is awesome. I need this song in my set list.
Cool! Never forget Switchblade…
Yes, so many great Link tracks to choose from - will probably get round to Switchblade eventually!
@@acpg We used Switchblade as an intro to our college radio show. Thanks for doing ANY Link Wray!
i cant shred so this is perfect to me! Thank's Adrian!
That is so cool 😎 Thank You for the pdf and backing track on Patreon 🙋🏻♂️
Yes Thank You !!!
Wow Adrian what a sound, like you said what a great piece of music. 🎶 Thank you
What an absolute tune!
Thanks Adrian! Still have a guitar tuned down from Haugens War on Drugs lesson. Also still enjoying the brilliant Zodiac Toys .
Thanks again for more awesomeness, Adrian!
Hi! Been following your chanel back and fouth since about 2016! I really like your content and i think your one of the best guitar teachers on youtube! You really helped me a lot, both in the sence that ive been learning songs, solos and licks but also the way you teach where you never just feed us the notes but rather explaining the context of the peticular notes. It really helps me out when trying to understand the instrument.
I also really like the fact that you dont focus on just one genre or the mainstream rock/pop stuff. You dig out some really cool underground gems and ive found som great bands through your channel! I do have a suggestion for somthing that may be an uppcoming project of yours. Theres a lot of music out there, a lot of great music that never reachers the charts or never gets more than a thousend streams on spotify, songs that might be as usefull to learn as any other... Maybe you could try to find and figure out songs made of bands thats practicly unknowned to the world as a way to keep things fresh and benefits small indieartists as well as were getting new stuff to listen to that we othervise wouldnt have found? Bands like Parsimon from Sweden as an example.
Amazing! Link wray is my favourite guitarist it'd be great if you could do alone by link wray, Thanks for another great lesson!
Always love the Link Wray tunes. May I suggest a crack at Spider Man, a variation on Black Widow? Its one I've tried to tab out for a long time, but just can't quite get to sound right. Cheers!
You're simply the best Adrian! Any updates on your Post Punk course? Keep rocking!
Can you do a quick video on some technical stuff like how you hold your pick, tension, angle, grip and all that. Different sorts of picking, left-right hand co-ordination. I know there are lots elsewhere, but I like your teaching style and manner. Cheers
Thanks for explaining this simply Adrian. Definitely a unique guitar style Link Wray had. My first hearing of this song, cheers. This song was written first, though the first riff made me think of the intro to 'God Save the Queen' in terms of similar chords. I also liked the chord changes (Dsus2) later on in 'Radar'.
Great lesson and appreciate the standard tuning :)
Simple is cool
thanks man you cleansed me of G
nice guitar !!!! 😯😲
Link Wray and Nokie Edwards of The Ventures were both Native Americans or First Nations as they say in Canada. Adds to the coolness factor for me. 😎
Good lesson Adrian! Dont you want to play some Smiths? Heaven knows I'm miserable now could be massive in your way of teaching how to play!
Great lead guitar
Have a request for a lesson and some analysis on one of my favourite guitar pieces - the solo at the end of ‘Baltimore’ by Nina Simone. Some of the guitar playing in that song is full of great emotion and energy. Would love to get your thoughts on it aswell as a much needed lesson to produce a similar sound at home! Thanks for the great work !
Hello, thank you for this song here! Could i ask u what is that guitar you are playing?
Thanks for keeping Link's name alive Ade. How about "The Shadow Knows" for next time?
Think Link!🥇✅
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you should check out the post punk band the sound
I saw Link with Robert Gordon back in the day
I saw Chris Spedding backing Robert Gordon instead
@@abrigospardos also a great guitarist
I saw Robert Gordon in NYC, probably Spring 1980? (It's all a bit fuzzy) I'm thinking that wasn't Link Wray with him that night...
Heyy can you give a tutorial on Hotel 65 by Lucid Express it's a great song but very underrated song so can't find it anywhere.
Could you do a tutorial for “Comanche”?
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Is this in the key of C? I think I heard you say key of A, but not sure how C and G work in the key of A.
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Hi Adrián, what pedal of overdrive do you use?
did you add any ovd?
Adrian, great lessons but in future could you please spell out, so to speak, runs like the pentatonic one in this lesson. I nearly had a mental breakdown getting it! I will think I have it then doubt myself or my mind expects to go one way and it goes another. This is my second attempt to comment as UA-cam seems to have censored my first. I said please think of us slow people but instead of people I wrote a mild expletive with a b, 2gs,1u,an r and an e. Really UA-cam! How come you let everyone else use the f word?!
Thanks Michael. Yes, it's always a bit of a dilemma deciding on the pacing of a video and how much detail to go into. For every person who thinks I'm going too fast there's another who thinks I'm talking to much and being boring. So I just try and strike a bit of a balance, but it won't be right for everyone. If you've not used it, I recommend using the speed function to slow down bits you're struggling with, it's really helpful.
@@acpg thanks for replying. Yes, I understand that you have viewers of different abilities and experience. I'm fairly new to it and in fact just play 3 string guitar and have started adjusting your lessons to fit it. I've never heard of a speed function. I don't know if I have it on this phone. Or is it a UA-cam function? Perhaps you could show a tab on some parts. I know you have tabs on Patreon but don't understand how to use it on my prepay phone. I'm a sad old boomer struggling with technology! Anyway, I'll try and sus out the speed thing. Keep on keeping on!
Hi, what guitar is it ?