I’ll be damned if I can remember this guy, apparently he was friends with Elvis and also this song was already 16 years old when this was taped live in 1974.

I’ll leave a quote from him I found in the Youtube comments.

“I don’t know if I was ahead of my time, but I knew I couldn’t be Elvis or Jerry Lee because I couldn’t sing. So I devoted all of my time and my energy and my soul into my guitar and sound, like punching holes in my speaker.” – Link Wray, 1998

I first saw this over on X with the title of “The Only Instrumental To Ever Be Banned From Radio”

Fuckin’ tightasses must have been skeered spitless..

I think it is pure, distilled Rock and Roll, boiled down to it’s bare essence.

I found this over at Pete’s place this morning and it hit me hard for some reason. The only thing I would add is that I did it hurting too.

Some days lately I wake up hurting and I go to bed hurting. But I still get up and take care of shit every fucking day while the world turns to shit around me.

Just like I have for the last 45 years.