Link Wray was a Shawnee Native American rock 'n' roll pioneer who essentially invented the raw, dirty power chord.

I had to include this pre-1960 brilliance.

Rumble by Link Wray

Of course, like a lot of us, I first came across it from the brilliant Pulp Fiction.

Link got his sound by punching holes in his amplifier speakers with a pencil just to make his guitar sound dangerous, distorted, and menacing.

Who'd have been a speaker cone back then?

Pretty sure Dave Davies from the Kinks used a similar technique! He was razor blades I think though.

"Rumble" was actually banned from radio stations because of that menacingness possibly inciting violence

Ooh scary dark, brooding sounds. I must go smash something up.

I will start with jamming my pencil into my speaker cones then... public violence!

The song is swagger. So confident. It doesn't hurry anywhere. It's pioneering brood-core; it just takes up space, dripping with attitude, tremolo distortion, and..threat.Grrr.