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From: brandx@ihuxa.UUCP (Howard D. Weisberg)
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Subject: My Favorite Guitarists
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Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 21:30:55 EST
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Jimi Hendrix:  The Greatest (but was it the sunspots?)
John McLaughlin:  Has done it all.  Will go full circle this year
	with a new version of Mahavishnu Orchestra
Ralph Towner:  Great pianist as well.  Has never played electric guitar
	in his life.  One of the most creative on classical.
	One-fourth of Oregon.
Allan Holdsworth:  Saw him recently at Tuts.  If you think of him as
	being merely fast, then study the art of LISTENING.  Has played
	with Tempest, Gong, Soft Machine, Tony Williams, Bruford, Ponty,
	UK, etc.
Frank Zappa:  I 2nd the recommendation of Ken Perlow for Freak Out and
	We're Only In It for the Money.  Lumpy Gravy, One Size Fits All
	and Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar are also highly recommended.
Larry Coryell:  A new 11th House album is coming soon.  Also, a tour with
	Alphonse Mouzon and Bunny Brunel.  Found a great album by
	the Urbaniak-Coryell Band (Michal Urbaniak-violin, Ursula Dudziak-
	voice, Kenny Kirkland-keybds and Weather Reports rhythm section
	of Victor Bailey and Omar Hakim).  He's started to de-emphasize
	fast playing (a positive move).
Pat Metheny:  Can't wait to see him with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell
	at the Jazz Showcase.

Those are some of my favorites.  Of course, I still like Fripp, Belew,
Hackett, etc.  I just picked up a new import album by Hackett.
It's his 1st all acoustic album.  He rerecorded Horizons (from Foxtrot)
and Kim (from Please Don't Touch).  Hopefully, this means that he's
given up on singing and making mediocre music.
The new Crimson album is great!  Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part 3!!!