{"id":2746,"date":"2005-11-21T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T13:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/11\/21\/rip-link-wray"},"modified":"2005-11-21T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T14:07:49","slug":"rip-link-wray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/11\/21\/rip-link-wray","title":{"rendered":"RIP Link Wray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Link_Wray\">Link Wray<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wraysshack3tracks.com\/\">died earlier this month<\/a> in Denmark at age 76. Wray (<a href=\"http:\/\/tony-50.bravepages.com\/\">homepage<\/a>, currently unavailable), hailed as the inventor of the power chord and the &#8220;fuzz&#8221; guitar sound, was a big influence to the likes of Pete Townsend, David Bowie and Bob Dylan. In the liner notes of one of Wray&#8217;s albums Townsend wrote: &#8220;He&#8217;s the king. If Link Wray and Rumble hadn&#8217;t been there I would never have picked up a guitar.&#8221; Some of Wray&#8217;s music <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garagepunk.com\/index.php?p=34\">can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link Wray has died earlier this month in Denmark at age 76. Wray (homepage, currently unavailable), hailed as the inventor of the power chord and the &#8220;fuzz&#8221; guitar sound, was a big influence to the likes of Pete Townsend, David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/11\/21\/rip-link-wray\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}