Link Wray had a P15

[47heaven]

For those of you old enough to remember rock 'n roller, Link Wray, who had a big hit in 1958 called "Rumble," it might be interesting to know that he owned a 1946-48 Plymouth, as seen here in this pic. Here's proof that famous people always start off with a Plymouth...LOL!

[Plymouthy Adams]

hey..wasn't that picture taken just moments prior to his arrest for vagrancy

[eric wissing]

I like his work. In the 80s he played with Robert Gordon. I think he spent his last years in The Netherlands hiding from child support payments. Eric

[47heaven]

hey..wasn't that picture taken just moments prior to his arrest for vagrancy

That I wouldn't know, but if so...he had a good car to be vagrant in.

[47heaven]

I like his work. In the 80s he played with Robert Gordon. I think he spent his last years in The Netherlands hiding from child support payments. Eric

Yeah...he's popular now with the rockabilly scene.

[knuckleharley]

If you ain't heard Link play Good Time Joe or Backwood Preacher Man,you ain't heard rock and roll guitar. Period. Rocket 88 ain't too bad,either.

Link Wray died recently,and was getting up on the stage and playing every night right up to the time he died.

[BobT-47P15]

Yes.....sad to say......the old rock-n-rollers are leaving us.

I like a lot of those old songs personally. Some of them were really pretty simple tunes, but they did well on the charts at the time. A couple years ago I met briefly at a party a fellow who had played drums with the Champs.

As you know, their big number was Tequila.

Last I heard, Ronnie Hawkins, who has been a star in Canada for many years, has been battling cancer. Ronnie originally was from down around Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was playing locally there in the 60s. Didn't get to see him then, but he returned to Fayetteville for a concert 8 or 10 years ago and I got to attend.

[Robin (UK)]

Chuck Rio was the lead sax player with The Champs (he wrote 'Tequila').

He played at our Rhythm Riot festival, in the UK, a few years back.

He put on a great show, despite suffering from mild Alzheimers at the time.

Sadly, he died a couple of years ago.

We were due to welcome Janis Martin this year, but she has just been diagnosed with severe, widespread and aggressive cancer.

Looks like we're gonna lose another one of the rock'n'roll pioneers.

Our festival continues with several other 50s stars as headliners and we will bring in a replacement for Janis, but if you get a chnace to see any of the originals, make sure you do it... we are the last generation to be able to enjoy hearing the real deal, live.

I caught a show by James HoneyBoy Edwards in London a couple of weeks ago - the last performing Delta Blues player. FANTASTIC!

[BobT-47P15]

If you were a fan of Dick Clark's American Bandstand in its heyday, then you can still see some of those "young kids" like Dion, Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, Bobby Vee, and Bill Hailey's Comets plus others at the theater in Branson. We went a while back. Of course, they do their most famous songs. We also saw Paul Revere and the Raiders - I had not realized what a comedian Paul was (is). Lots of humor in their part of the show. Paul's keyboard stand these days is the front end of a Metropolitan. And the audience seemed to contain a lot of 'older kids'.

The icing on the cake is the nice collection of all 1957 model cars in the basement of the theater. If you see the show plus tour the

cars at the same visit, the admission for the car portion is a bit less, as I recall.

[Plymouthy Adams]

growing old is mandatory..growing up is optional..as is well dispicted by the above photograph