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This might go best in Notable Passings as Larry Collins died today.   Check this kid out at 11 years old:

 

 

But Mr. Collins’s innovations as a guitarist extended beyond surf music and rockabilly. Noting similarities between his playing and that heard on touchstone punk recordings by the Sex Pistols and the Ramones, the guitarist Deke Dickerson argued that the Collinses’ 1958 single “Whistle Bait” anticipated punk rock by some two decades.

“‘Whistle Bait’ was the first rock ’n’ roll record to divorce itself from rhythm and blues, or country, or jazz, or anything; it was like nothing that came before it,” Mr. Dickerson wrote in a 2018 profile of Mr. Collins on pleasekillme.com.

“Call it pure id, call it free-association rockabilly,” he went on, “but it was just a really weird record. It was the first punk-rock record.”

 

 

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