The man who taught Koody how to play power chords before they had a name for 'em. Thanks, Link... - Cub Koda (Brownsville Station)
Link Wray played the most important D chord in history. It opened "Rumble" and signaled the birth of the power-chord. With "Rumble" the guitar arrived as an instrument of pure menace. - Colin Escott (rock and roll historian)
The greatest rock 'n' roll guitarist ever. - Lemmy (Motorhead,Hawkwind)
"Rumble" is one of my all time favorite instrumentals. - Elvis Costello
"Rumble" is the best instrumental ever. - Bob Dylan
That's him! That's him! This is the guy! "Rumble" "Rumble" Keith Moon (The Who - while running around naked at the Record Plant studio in New York, 1974)
Gene Vincent and Link Wray, two of the greatest unknowns in rock 'n' roll. - John Lennon (The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band)
It'd be next to impossible to begin listin' all the string scratchers Link Wray has influenced. Really, anybody who's whacked a chord any harder than Al Caiola owes a supreme hat tip to the "Rumble" Man. - Billy Miller (The A-Bones, The Zantees, Norton Records)
Link is a quiet man to meet - easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often... I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Link Wray's "Rumble", and yet excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording "Who's Next"... this later inspired the b-side "Wasp Man", a tune we dedicated to Link Wray. - Pete Townsend (The Who)
