Ricky Hunt wrote:

"Marky A" wrote...

They use the example of Rumble as a song with power chords, but it
really isn't so. It goes like

D D E

With the D played as a cowboy chord with the 1st string open. The E is
the basic E cowboy chord.

My thinking says a power chord is a two note chord with the tonic and
5th played on the 6th and the 5th string respectively. This can be
played at the 5th and 4th string too.

Maybe his other tunes used these kinds of chords, or they were just
trying to describe the strength and simplicity of the chords as played
in Rumble, but i would not describe them as power chords.

That is a valid technical observation but it's still power chord all the way
(the A chord particularly). If there's any true rule of power chordology
it's "there must be no third".

The third comes from distortion.

And Link had more power than any powerchorder I've ever heard since.
Wannabees, in comparison.

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