I like most versions of this tune, but Link Wray's is definitely my favorite. His gnarly, shit in your face guitar work is simply awesome. The man is a genious.
Wow! I am absolutely shattered! I loved Link Wray's music for several years to date (not to mention The Shadows before him), but I never could've thought that Wray even this far to cover this amazing song by The Shadows (an electric guitar standard for anyone and, for the connoisseurs, one of the songs Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd loved to rehearse during his university years). Sounds amazing! Thank you so much for sharing it! All the best and rock on!
Link Wray is Shawnee he has songs titled Shawnee, Apache, and proud to say Comanche which i am we called ourselves Numunu. I have a lot of Link Wray music. What a great guitarist he was. Ura Link for the music.
This song was playing when I bought my first Harley Davidson..... Lakeside Harley was the place. I was 19 years old and worked many double shifts and weekends to get the money up to purchase a used 1979 ironhead chopper. Back in the year of 1999 3,500 dollars was a lot of money and I only made 8.50 an hour then . I remember walking inside and seeing that chopper sitting in the corner of the show room ... the guys who worked in the back were just wiping it down to finish getting the wax access off. I walked over to it and as soon as I sat on it this song started playing on the stores sound system...... it was like a calling or sign !!! I liked it because it was flat black and had 5 1%2 foot forks chrome and the only other chrome on it was the tops of the heads the s&s air filter cover and those shark fin exhaust pipes.... I seen it was a 79 i fell in love with it!!! It was born the same year I was and was like me in every way, like me it wasn't show room beautiful and looked more tough and shined just enough to make it be noticed. Some people loved it and some hated it and also like me it was nothing like the rest,powerful and loyal every day!! This song takes me back to the moment that took a late teenaged boy and made him a man !! It was the day I got my first iron horse !!
I recalled a rock-a-billy album he made with Robert Gorden in the mid-70's I had to get it as soon as I heard it. Recall spinning that vinal an awful lot as a teen !
Whatever he plays sounds super fantastic and I just love the music 🎶, it makes me feel like dancing 💃 with the love of my life ! ! Thank you to who put this on the air,screen .
Well even though a piano player but Jerry Lee Lewis is part of that front line ....... But that is just my opinion and awesome comment though I agree with it!!
Although this is probably, at least, the third recording of this song, I must say that I like it better than its predecessors. I had the great privilege of seeing Link at The House of Blues in Chicago in the late 1990s. He blew me away! Years later, he played at a club that was located right across the alley from where I lived. He played so loud that I didn't even have to go into the club; I could just listen to the concert penetrating its way right through the solid brick wall of the venue. I have a tape to prove it!
And, believe me, I am NOT joking!! You could actually just sit in a lawn chair at my back gate and listen to the concert (which was at The Abbey Pub in Chicago somewhere around 2002 or so). When I was listening, it suddenly dawned on me that I should be recording this. I went and got my trusty Sony Walkman cassette recorder and taped at least half of the show. I have played that tape for people and virtually none of them believe my story that there were no windows or open door, and all this sound was basically forcing itself out through a brick wall. And, if I may ramble even longer, when I went to the 1990's performance at The House of Blues, Link started out his first number at an INCREDIBLE volume. After about four bars, he pointed to his guitar and then pointed to audio guy, and threw his thumb up into the air, like "EVEN LOUDER ON THE GUITAR!!!" I woke up the next morning with what sounded like 1000 crickets in my ears; my ears were ringing that badly. Doubly unfortunate was that that I was a recording engineer at that time and had to record and mix about 30 radio spots that day. (It also didn't help that I was incredibly hung over that day).
Noooooooooo. I love Link Wray, I love playing loud and I work at a radio station in Spain, so you can figure what that story means to me. God bless you.
Yeah, I regret not seeing him when he was alive because I found a copy of Ace of Spades on Swan label in 74 at a Berlin N.J. flea market. Helped get me through the glitter rock bullshit of David Bowie.
thejimdoherty - You should put that tape on UA-cam! I've got a dvd of Link with these two Dutch guys, great great gig! It's also very loud, and yeah.. when he puts his thumb up into the air it became even louder... Love ya Link!
Link 🔗 a true Genius what a Guitar 🎸 legend this is the best version obviously the original just Oozes class . But Link 🖇️ 🔗 does his own twist on this class tune.A man who influenced so many different music 🎵🎶 artists respect Link 🔗 R.I.P gone never forgotten 🎸🎵🎶🔗
i think the fact that it sounds like a demo is totally part of link's style. he played rough surf rock and not soft surf rock like the shadows or jorgen ingmann
takes me back to a much simpler time. The music was changing, The "youth rebellion" was dawning, we "fought" for civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights................... went to Viet Nam anyway......oh well
That nation of vietnam had the will to win and they did. They kicked out the French and then the Americans lol. Who knew that Ho Chi Mihn was an avid reader of Thomas Jefferson and more importantly, Thomas Paine? He could quote fro mthe declaration of independence. He was the George Washington of his country and couldn't understand why the Americans wouldn't help free his country from France, but instead invaded ito support the scum that were ruining his country. I'm sure I'm wasting my breath here, but christ; some people will buy a bullshit myth, hook,line and sinker.
What the hell are people looking and listening at that nobody has commented in the last two years. Theres got to be a billion to 2 online. Makes no sense. Madness.
To quote Wikipedia: " In the US and Canada, they were briefly marketed as a 'surf' group with two special compilation albums on Atlantic records, The Shadows Know and Surfing with The Shadows, to compete with The Ventures and The Surfaris. Although both these albums failed to chart in America, the band had hits worldwide."
loving this sound , from another breed , . . . german / apache , and living out the "Good " life in Roswell New Mexico, building streetrods and playing in a a 50-s band called Redemption, russell bradford banks on fb
I liked Jorgen Ingmans' version best for the lead and the Ventures for the lead drums and bass. FWIW Nokie Edwards is a full blooded American Indian who played lead on the Vnetires version.
The gushing comments are embarrassingly hilarious. Link Wray was not a guitarist. No more than any grade school wannabe was. So Apache was in a minor key and Link recorded it with programmed drums. Horrid. He doesn't even follow the correct melody line...or he can't. Yawn...
I think it was The Shadows who originally did "Apache". I even hear a crappy house track that samples the Incredible Bongo Band's version in the gym, but I've always preferred the Shadows and Link Wray's version.
It was the Shadows (Hank Marvin on lead guitar) who recorded it first and had a hit in Britain; Jorgen Ingman recorded it and his label released it worldwide, and that version became the international hit. Jorgen was from Denmark...sort of the "Scandinavian Les Paul"....
So many great versions of this song. This one, of course, is the iconic one we hear in TV/Film, and is likely the first version many of us have ever heard. If that's the case, you owe it to yourself to check out the other versions. Jørgen Ingmann, the Shadows (the original version of this song), Davie Allan, The Ventures, etc. Unfortunately, the worst version by the Incredible Bongo Band, is the one that gets sampled on all the hip-hop tracks. Figures.
Define Link Wray?
A genuine American musician.
A key figure of rock and roll.
A revolutionary of electric guitar.
An underrated jem.
And whites banned him for cultural cancelation.
one of the most underrated musicians ever. he was a trailblazer.
Arguably the first to make guitar sound *lethal*
Very true indeed! Much respect and all the best!
I like most versions of this tune, but Link Wray's is definitely my favorite.
His gnarly, shit in your face guitar work is simply awesome.
The man is a genious.
genuionly a genious
just kidding lol... absolutely correct. Link Wray is up there as one of the best of all time.
Agreed!
shit in your face guitar work is the best description I've ever heard
To my knowledge, the first to make guitar sound *lethal*
Check out Lethal Larry Lonsdale
You're actually correct. He's the only artist to have his record banned ('Rumble')
@Justice For All And an instrumental at that. Link Wray, first ballot hall of fame badass.
Yeah, pretty stabby huh 😑Death by discord hahaha
Exactly!
Native American plays song named after native Americans. Heard Link when I was 11. Changed my life. For the better.
Wow! I am absolutely shattered! I loved Link Wray's music for several years to date (not to mention The Shadows before him), but I never could've thought that Wray even this far to cover this amazing song by The Shadows (an electric guitar standard for anyone and, for the connoisseurs, one of the songs Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd loved to rehearse during his university years). Sounds amazing! Thank you so much for sharing it! All the best and rock on!
Link Wray at his truely best .
a true pioneer even before Hendrix
Holy crap. How did I not know this version existed till today. Lol
Link Wray is Shawnee he has songs titled Shawnee, Apache, and proud to say Comanche which i am we called ourselves Numunu. I have a lot of Link Wray music. What a great guitarist he was. Ura Link for the music.
This song was playing when I bought my first Harley Davidson..... Lakeside Harley was the place. I was 19 years old and worked many double shifts and weekends to get the money up to purchase a used 1979 ironhead chopper. Back in the year of 1999 3,500 dollars was a lot of money and I only made 8.50 an hour then . I remember walking inside and seeing that chopper sitting in the corner of the show room ... the guys who worked in the back were just wiping it down to finish getting the wax access off. I walked over to it and as soon as I sat on it this song started playing on the stores sound system...... it was like a calling or sign !!! I liked it because it was flat black and had 5 1%2 foot forks chrome and the only other chrome on it was the tops of the heads the s&s air filter cover and those shark fin exhaust pipes.... I seen it was a 79 i fell in love with it!!! It was born the same year I was and was like me in every way, like me it wasn't show room beautiful and looked more tough and shined just enough to make it be noticed. Some people loved it and some hated it and also like me it was nothing like the rest,powerful and loyal every day!! This song takes me back to the moment that took a late teenaged boy and made him a man !! It was the day I got my first iron horse !!
Let's not forget The Shadows, who did this first, had a reasonable lead guitarist by the name of Hank B. Marvin.
Bert Weeden did the original version
@@djmoonrockin Correct of course, except his name is spelt "Weedon"
Fuck Hank Marvin it's LINK WRAY
I recalled a rock-a-billy album he made with Robert Gorden in the mid-70's I had to get it as soon as I heard it. Recall spinning that vinal an awful lot as a teen !
Funny how these old instrumentals can take you back in time.....great guitarist!
Whatever he plays sounds super fantastic and I just love the music 🎶, it makes me feel like dancing 💃 with the love of my life ! ! Thank you to who put this on the air,screen .
A True Legend.....Link Wray was BAD ASS......
Great tremolo, reverb and fuzz tone! Link and the Ray man performed this song just right!
this songs makes think me of Driving thru the Arizona Desert on a sunny Day...
all days are sunny in the arizona dessert
@@dingleydb So what?
@@dingleydb 😂
Amen Brother. I miss those days.
This could be right out of a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western !... Great sound!...Guy had real talent
leonakita I think it is
The guy on the Clint Eastwood movie probably learned it from listening to Link.
I can just see the opening credits rolling!
so raw.. THAT is rock 'n roll
It would have been a treat to see a Link Wray and Junior Brown duet of this song! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
This guy Link Wray and Chuck berry is what Rock is ALL about !!!!!!!! Hands down ! Checkmate to anyone ..
Well even though a piano player but Jerry Lee Lewis is part of that front line ....... But that is just my opinion and awesome comment though I agree with it!!
Jimi Hendrix ? ...
@@g4mingzone231 i think he’s talking more about the 50’s and even then, jimi wouldn’t have the same sound without link and chuck
Scotty Moore, James Burton, Paul Burlison, Roland Janes...
I'm here bkuz I enjoy da classic sounds......ohhhhh yeeeeeaaaahhhh
Godfather of Surf Guitar!
Every kid wanted to learn to play after hearing this, I was one of them
Although this is probably, at least, the third recording of this song, I must say that I like it better than its predecessors. I had the great privilege of seeing Link at The House of Blues in Chicago in the late 1990s. He blew me away! Years later, he played at a club that was located right across the alley from where I lived. He played so loud that I didn't even have to go into the club; I could just listen to the concert penetrating its way right through the solid brick wall of the venue. I have a tape to prove it!
I love that story about a grown man playing loud. Being a rocker you made my day.
And, believe me, I am NOT joking!! You could actually just sit in a lawn chair at my back gate and listen to the concert (which was at The Abbey Pub in Chicago somewhere around 2002 or so). When I was listening, it suddenly dawned on me that I should be recording this. I went and got my trusty Sony Walkman cassette recorder and taped at least half of the show. I have played that tape for people and virtually none of them believe my story that there were no windows or open door, and all this sound was basically forcing itself out through a brick wall. And, if I may ramble even longer, when I went to the 1990's performance at The House of Blues, Link started out his first number at an INCREDIBLE volume. After about four bars, he pointed to his guitar and then pointed to audio guy, and threw his thumb up into the air, like "EVEN LOUDER ON THE GUITAR!!!" I woke up the next morning with what sounded like 1000 crickets in my ears; my ears were ringing that badly. Doubly unfortunate was that that I was a recording engineer at that time and had to record and mix about 30 radio spots that day. (It also didn't help that I was incredibly hung over that day).
Noooooooooo. I love Link Wray, I love playing loud and I work at a radio station in Spain, so you can figure what that story means to me. God bless you.
Yeah, I regret not seeing him when he was alive because I found a copy of Ace of Spades on Swan label in 74 at a Berlin N.J. flea market. Helped get me through the glitter rock bullshit of David Bowie.
thejimdoherty - You should put that tape on UA-cam! I've got a dvd of Link with these two Dutch guys, great great gig! It's also very loud, and yeah.. when he puts his thumb up into the air it became even louder... Love ya Link!
Love the emptiness in LW's play.
I love it that he sounds like he does with just one, or a few notes.. Fantastic! Raw, hard, simple, and no bullshit. Very rock & roll!
A rare but wonderful trait.
Yup!!!
this song is my new life inspiration..
Link 🔗 a true Genius what a Guitar 🎸 legend this is the best version obviously the original just Oozes class . But Link 🖇️ 🔗 does his own twist on this class tune.A man who influenced so many different music 🎵🎶 artists respect Link 🔗 R.I.P gone never forgotten 🎸🎵🎶🔗
I always enjoyed seeing him LIVE at the bunker, the ROCKET ROOM and VINNIES when I was a JD and getting in for free.....
definitely my favourite version
I could listen to this and Hank Marvin's 1961 take all day long
Love how he bends the strings! Rubbed off on Jimmy Page.
love this version so much!!!! Twangy guitar throughout!
Wow... what an intense version of that classic!
i think the fact that it sounds like a demo is totally part of link's style. he played rough surf rock and not soft surf rock like the shadows or jorgen ingmann
This version of this classic tune is great, and so is your sound quality.
Great sound from Link ..
This is the way it should be done link wray legend
One of his bests ....
I grew up listening to Link Wray , Thank you :) QC
I heard his music as the backdrop in Tarantino films LW music is the essence of cool.
takes me back to a much simpler time. The music was changing, The "youth rebellion" was dawning, we "fought" for civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights................... went to Viet Nam anyway......oh well
Michael Morrison It's ok, my generation will take care of it
Michael Morrison You wasted your time.
+InternetSavage At least he actually stood for something.
That nation of vietnam had the will to win and they did. They kicked out the French and then the Americans lol. Who knew that Ho Chi Mihn was an avid reader of Thomas Jefferson and more importantly, Thomas Paine? He could quote fro mthe declaration of independence. He was the George Washington of his country and couldn't understand why the Americans wouldn't help free his country from France, but instead invaded ito support the scum that were ruining his country. I'm sure I'm wasting my breath here, but christ; some people will buy a bullshit myth, hook,line and sinker.
Not really (wasting your breath). In Nam a few of my buddies were asked who they would rather interview, Richard Nixon or Ho Chi Mihn, Mihn won!
La mejor versión de apache.... Link wray!!
What the hell are people looking and listening at that nobody has commented in the last two years. Theres got to be a billion to 2 online. Makes no sense. Madness.
Try to focus on the positive my friend. The pain never really goes away of course, but try to look the other way.
To quote Wikipedia: " In the US and Canada, they were briefly marketed as a 'surf' group with two special compilation albums on Atlantic records, The Shadows Know and Surfing with The Shadows, to compete with The Ventures and The Surfaris. Although both these albums failed to chart in America, the band had hits worldwide."
i first heard this from the incredible bongo band, who would have thought link wray would be responsible for so many drum and bass samples
This version of Apache is awesome, although Jorgen Ingman is still my favorite, on a scale of 1to10 on Link Wray's version 15
Cool alternative version -makes my fave play list!
Legend Spirit.
Link is the Nuts!
loving this sound , from another breed , . . . german / apache , and living out the "Good " life in Roswell New Mexico, building streetrods and playing in a a 50-s band called Redemption, russell bradford banks on fb
Great song I love Link wray!!!!!
wished we had this music today
Los Straight Jackets,,,,
We do , the fact you can listen to it for free , anywhere on a phone , shows this is the best time ever for music
We do! Link Wray recordings
I love link wray bruh
The original version by the Shadows [uk] is the best one i think.
Very good indeed! My preference still with the Shadows
always a pleasure to find the original of some shit you heard before
Soooo good!!
This is totally awesome.
Not to forget the great Jorgen Ingmann, or the legendary Toomy Seebach :-)
Batman Theme is killer😎😎
The legend
Pure majik...
Link Wray what a legend..
fantástica versión,la mejor quiza.
This is my jam
very nice from the inventor of the rock guitar
nasty ass guitar. love the wray man
+John Smith Absolutely! Thi is the "go to" version of Apache, maybe a little
down tempo here.
Thanks
Thanks
Thanks for u
I am 1/2 Apache and I can dig it!
Whaa
Sweat, sand and saddle sores
Dunno...I love Link's version...but (Not sure on who made who) love The Ventures try on this too.
Original by Jorgen Ingmann @ 1960 atco..Great tune to play with if youre a geetar dude
I liked Jorgen Ingmans' version best for the lead and the Ventures for the lead drums and bass. FWIW Nokie Edwards is a full blooded American Indian who played lead on the Vnetires version.
I prefer Links interpretation the tempo is slower and cooler.
Yeah... rough, raw, and slow. Fantastic!
bongo madness jump on jump on get on it get on it.........incredible.......motel hotel .......
holiday inn
My childhood💖
Great version
My ex-bro-in -law told me about Link about 20 years ago, last time he was ever correct!!!
But the real question is did he tell you about Link’s Three Track Shack material?
for some reason i hear some sublime santeria. in there..first listener first thing that came to mind
The gushing comments are embarrassingly hilarious. Link Wray was not a guitarist. No more than any grade school wannabe was. So Apache was in a minor key and Link recorded it with programmed drums. Horrid. He doesn't even follow the correct melody line...or he can't. Yawn...
This is what gave us desert rock and Josh Homme.
North American still had no rights in that era.He of course is an Indian.Great musian
You can also hear a nod to this song in Sugarhill Gang's 'Apache'.. (known or just subconscious)..
Me like 'em heap big song.
such a bad ass!
Do I have to explain why this is the best ?
Yes.
I already heard the explanation. It was detailed in the above YT clip.
I think it was The Shadows who originally did "Apache". I even hear a crappy house track that samples the Incredible Bongo Band's version in the gym, but I've always preferred the Shadows and Link Wray's version.
You can hear he's using a Bigsby, and also thick strings, I imagine.
I think the shadows version is a better one. But I do love link wrays' feel. proto metal
Yep. The Shadows (a great British group) were the originals.
can't believe this one only has about 15,000 hits
Dick is of Mid Eastern descent and I hear that and Spanish in his sound. Link's sound is unique.
one of my favorites. did link smoke pot?
Peyote
It was the Shadows (Hank Marvin on lead guitar) who recorded it first and had a hit in Britain; Jorgen Ingman recorded it and his label released it worldwide, and that version became the international hit. Jorgen was from Denmark...sort of the "Scandinavian Les Paul"....
i like this better than the original
So Badass.
So many great versions of this song. This one, of course, is the iconic one we hear in TV/Film, and is likely the first version many of us have ever heard.
If that's the case, you owe it to yourself to check out the other versions. Jørgen Ingmann, the Shadows (the original version of this song), Davie Allan, The Ventures, etc. Unfortunately, the worst version by the Incredible Bongo Band, is the one that gets sampled on all the hip-hop tracks. Figures.
Right! I first herd Jorgen (no Danish Characters on my machine) in 10th grade. TO me it is much better!
lol what ridiculous bias. I love Link Wray but he fops quite a few notes on this version, definitely not as tight as the Bongo Bands recording.
is this played in the normal phrygian mode?