[bomp] Rock 'n' Roll instrumental godz

[ItsBoss9@xxxxxxx]

This reminds me of the time we caught Link Wray a couple years ago.  Kinda
disappointing in that the band was pretty metallic sounding and Link
insisted on playing looong versions of only a handful of his tunes.  Case in
point, he played about a 10-minute "Comanchi" until he blew his amp.  After
the opening band (the Chickens, I think came to the rescue by lending an amp
within 5 minutes or so, what did we hear?  Ten more minutes of "Comanchi"!!

THIS IS ALSO TRUE of Link Wray... the problem I see with Link is that his 
music is really based on the interplay of the bass creating drama for the guitar 
rhythms... it's about drama, and he plays with this bass player who is 
stupidly rushing through everything because its "punk" to do so... but it saps the 
key element of drama out of Link's music... that's what makes "Rumble" and "Jack 
the Ripper" so intense, is the drama, let alone his other tunes playing on 
that.

Duane Eddy, on the other hand, stands among the best concerts I've seen in my 
life.  He had Hal Blaine on drums, Steve Douglas on sax, Don Randi on 
keyboards, Ry Cooder on second guitar (the "Al Casey" role) and I've forgotten who 
the bass player was... this was 1984 at the Wilshire Theater... he also toured 
for a little bit opening for... Huey Lewis & the News... with that same lineup, 
and of course the whole thing got going at Don Randi's club The Baked Potato 
on Cahuenga.  Now, who can expect to have a band like that, it's not possible. 
 But Link Wray and Dick Dale really need to have that kind of respect for 
their own music, because they may be the most important guys of the Rock 'n' Roll 
Instrumental genre out there, but their shows don't do much to prove their 
value.  There are probably musicians right on this list that can do better than 
the chumps playing with Link Wray and Dick Dale now.

There's a huge interview with Steve Douglas that I did coming in Dumb Angel 
Gazette #4, a real career summary about working with Duane Eddy, Phil Spector, 
Brian Wilson, Jan Berry and a really overlooked thing... his tenure as a 
Capitol Records staff producer in the mid-'60s.  Steve died over 10 years ago... 
but it's been longer than that since the last D.A.G. came out.  That interview 
has been too long in the can.

Domenic Priore

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