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youtube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAchKt2xjsw Published:Dec 15, 2005 Author:tribal328 Post Date:2007-12-23 21:52:04 by wudidiz Keywords:None Views:1263 Comments:59
"Goodtime Joe" by Link Wray. I can't find it anywhere. It's a crime that album with Goodtime Joe,Rocket 88,and Backwoods Preacher Man hasn't been put back into production.
If you ain't heard Link Wray play Goodtime Joe,you ain't heard rock and roll guitar.
"Goodtime Joe" by Link Wray. I can't find it anywhere. It's a crime that album with Goodtime Joe,Rocket 88,and Backwoods Preacher Man hasn't been put back into production.
If you ain't heard Link Wray play Goodtime Joe,you ain't heard rock and roll guitar.
Yeah,that's the man. If you ever get a chance to buy his 1973 Polydor album that is titled,"Link Wray Rumble",buy it! I think it went out of print in 74,and has never been re-released. I finally wore out my second copy,and the only new one I could find was in Germany,and I had to pay 130 bucks for the damn thing! If you had any idea how cheap I am,that would really mean something to you. I never paid even $20 for a album before or since.
BTW,seems like he put out a couple of albums with "Rumble" in the title because it was his best known hit. If it doesn't have Goodtime Joe,Backwood Preacher Man,or Rocket 88 on it,it's not the right one.
I have that record. It's the one with the sorta strobe photo of him on the front. I've sold off a lot of my vinyl but I have kept that one. Mine's in nearly mint shape, because back then I just bought my first tape deck and taped my albums and listened to them on cassette, since I had this mondo amplifier with about 1000 watts a channel, and the input didn't matter too much. Plus, the volume made records skip.
It's really something special,ain't it? My new one is still unopened. I'm waiting to find somebody I can trust to record it on a CD for me before I open it. None o that,"my sisters brothers 2nd cousin two times removed can probably do it" crap. It has to be somebody I know,and they have to live close enough I can get my hands around their throats if it disappears.
BTW,IF I remember correctly,Blues Duke was a kid visiting the recording studio the day that album was recorded. Get him to tell you the story if he posts here. I am too eaten up with jealousy to talk to him about it.
Someone as nutty as me. I still have a sealed copy of The Pretty Things' SF Sorrow, with the die-cut cover. I have no idea what it is worth now, but lots. I have a sealed copy of the first VU album, with the peelable banana, and sealed copies of Lou Reed's Berlin album and The Stooges' Funhouse.
There is a new turntable (I think Urban Outfitters sells it) that you can plug right into your computer and digitize your LPs, then burn discs. It's $99 or less.
I have tons of obscure stuff that will never come out on CD, like Teenage Head and some Joy Division and Dolls boots, and I would like to buy one, but my computer is just too crappy.