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Originally Posted by elphenor
SRV is just a very showy blues guitarist
Dick Dale was the King of a genre he helped create, and the King of Volume as he was straight up demolising all the amps that were used at the time to the point where he became an innovator in the technology just so he'd have something that could handle him
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Okay, I'll grant you Dick Dale is a great guitarist and all.
But what about Link Wray? Talk about a destroyer of amps. It could be argued he even invented heavy metal though that wasn't a term used in 1958 obviously.
And even before that, you had Les Paul. Of course he wasn't a rock n roll guitarist, but that didn't make him not innovative in his own right. He even has a guitar named after him.