Guitar Wildman Link Wray has a respectable niche in the Seven Ages of Rock for introducing distortion back in the late 1950’s, and also for perhaps having the only instrumental banned from the airwaves for being too suggestive (“Rumble”, which does indeed sound like a tense face-off before hoodlum violence). Wray also played rockabilly, country, teen-beat dance ditties, and even proto-psych at various points. He re-emerged in the mid-90’s as a shades-wearing septuagenarian with a cat-who-ate-the-canary grin alternating cranked-up garage thunder with cryptic reverbed-out beat-rock. He hit Austin at least four times before passing in 2005, and Walking Down A Street Called Love: The Rumble Man Live in London and Manchester certainly captures the throbbing, careening, controlled-chaos of a Link Wray show. On tunes like Batman and Run Chicken Run the gnarly amp-tone and frenetic pace of his band really do sound like one of his legendary live shows at the Continental or Electric Lounge, where the rocker-chicks did shimmy, the hepcats did wail.