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Old 04-02-2012, 09:46 PM   #239 (permalink)
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Link Wray!
Link Wray: on wiki Link Wray is credited with fathering Punk, also The Dictators and Blue Cheer and (I'm sure) a few other bands too (that I didn't mention) are also mentioned with their part in the formation of Punk.

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Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound. He also "invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarist,"[1] "and in doing so fathering," or making possible, "punk and heavy rock"
The Dictators
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The Dictators are represented in the "Punk Wing" of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio. Steven Van Zandt called them "The connective tissue between the eras of The MC5, Stooges, NY Dolls, and the punk explosion of the mid to late 1970s".
Blue Cheer
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Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and is also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal (their cover of "Summertime Blues" is sometimes cited as the first in the genre[4]), punk rock,[3] stoner rock,[2][5] doom metal,[5][6] experimental rock,[7] and grunge.
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