which guitarist was known for playing power chords in a windmill style?
Power chords were first used back in the 1950s on recordings by electric blues guitarists Willie Johnson and Pat Hare. Link Wray used them in 1958 on âRumble.â But itâs The Whoâs Pete Townshend, with his famous windmill strum, who often gets credit as the first to take power chords mainstream.