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Subject: Re: Guitarists - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 18:57:00 EST
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ctvax!rob    Apr 12 17:57:00 1984

Voting for favorite guitarist is rather silly since they are all
so different but it is fun! Here's a few more:

Henry "Sunflower" Vestine (Canned Heat) (RIP) -- not the guy who played
slide, the other one. Classic 60s blues/rock. Check out "Amphetamine
Annie" on "Boogie with Canned Heat".

Big Jim Sullivan (Tom Jones band and sessions)
There was a time when most of the records of the British Invasion of
the 60s featured either Jimmy Page or Big Jim.
If you think some of Led Zep's riffs
sound like the Small Faces or Them, that's 'cos Jimmy did all of them.
Big Jim used to have a spot on Tom Jones' (gag!) TV show. Tom would say
do you know X and off Jim would go with a blinding intro into Tom's
"singing". The trick was that every week, it was a completely different
style, all from the same old Strat. Does anyone know what happened
to Big Jim?

Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick)
Yeah, I know the guy with four guitars round his neck. But remember
Jimi used to play with his teeth to get attention. I saw Nielsen in
Cheap Trick's heyday do a solo while the rest of the band was off-stage
getting "cranked" up. The guy had the audience in the palm of his
hand. A tremendous showman and a sense of humor. Check out all the
Beatles' riffs in the middle of "Ain't That a Shame" on "Live at
Budokan".

Robbie Krieger (Doors)
His classical training shows with the finger-picking and barres.
Nice slide work too. Gone downhill after the demise of the BEST 
AMERICAN BAND EVER (Wanna start another argument?)
Check out "The End" on "the Doors", but watch out for helicopters.

Rory Gallagher (started with Taste)
Irish blues/rocker with a beat-up Strat that has less finish on it
than Stevie Ray Vaughn's. Good slide work. Listen to "Messin' with the
Kid" on "Rory Gallagher Live in Europe".

Ron Wood (Faces)
After he quit playing bass for Jeff Beck, and before he disappeared
behind Keith "I-just-look-like-I'm-strung-out" Richard(s) in the Stones,
Woody did some nice raunchy stuff for Rod Stewart and the boys. 
Try "Miss Judy's Farm" on "A Nod's as Good as a Wink".

Andy Summers (Police - when he is 40)
aka Andy Sommers (Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - when he was 19!)
As the plaque that on top of one of his amps says, 
"Watch out for Andy, he's small but he knows a lot."
Love all those minor chords.

Billy Zoom (X)
Has rekindled the market for old Gretsch solid bodies (:-).
Really knows how to let it rip.

Hank B. Marvin (Shadows)
The backup band for Cliff Richard (England's answer to Elvis),
the Shadows (formerly the Drifters) stuck to covers of Ventures
songs, etc. Still, Hank with his Strat and his thick hornrim glasses
was an inspiration in and around 1960 to all the kids that became
the 1960s British Invasion.

Billy Gibbons (Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top)
Forget the MTV stuff, when Billy gets his '59 Les Paul out of the vault,
he can tear it up with the best of them even if he did steal the intro
to "Le Grange" from "Fried Hockey Boogie" by Canned Heat (where'd they 
steal it from?)

Neil Young 
It takes guts to have a Bigsby on a Les Paul. The guitar as a percussion
instrument. Try "Out of the Blue" on "Live Rust"

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Gosh that's enough! If you want more, Creem put out a special issue
on Rock Guitarists from A-Z a few years back with Jimi, Jimmy and Keith (?!)
on the cover. It had some nice pics in it too, with Nugent and Van Halen
with their collections and Nielsen with his five-neck Hamer.

"They'll get my guitar when they peel my cold dead fingers off the
 fretboard."

Rob Spray
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