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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: re:modern guitar technique
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 12:40:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 12:40:07 1985
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> >In article <793@utcsri.UUCP> elf@utcsri.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) writes:
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> >>				[]
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> >>As with most figures who appear larger than life, JH was overrated, and
> >>by the looks of things, still is:
> >>> 
> >>> Simply put, Hendrix invented modern electric guitar technique. 
> >>> 
> >>Three "modern" exceptions: Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson,
> >>Mark Knopfler.
> >>
> 
> 
> I think there are lots of people who have made great contributions to
> modern electric technique:  Les Paul (for the instrument and for the
> initial exploration of its possibilities),  Hendrix (for discovering
> the uses of effects like feedback, wah and other effects boxes),  Edward
> Van Halen (for finding new ways to play the guitar like his two-hand tapping
> and for the enormous box of goodies usually referred to as Eddie-tricks
> (bar tricks, pick scrapes, harping, artificial harmonics (some of which
> he invented, others of which he perfected)),  Adrian Belew (for his 
> mastery of effects that allows him to make any sound he can imagine),
> and the list goes on....
> 
> 	Dave Blickstein
> 
	Merle Travis deserves notice.  He died in Oct. 1983.
Besides being credited as popularizing they style of picking
given his name, "Travis Picking," (the picking style  used 
by Chet Atkins, Guy Van Duser, Merle Watson, Doc Watson, and
many others) and writing many classic songs like, "9 pound hammer,"
and "16 tons," he invented the solid body electric guitar.   
According to Travis:

	It was in '48  . . . I was playing dances out in
	Placentia, California, with Cliffie Stone.  That's when
	I designed the Fender Gutiar.  I got the idea from
	the steel guitar.  I thought, why can't you get
	the sustainability of notes out of an electric
	guitar like you can with a steel?  So I built a
	solid-body electric guitar, the *first* one,
	with the keys all on one side like they are on
	a steel.  So you don't have to reach over and
	tune.  It's in the Country Music Hall of 
	Fame in Nasville now

			Folk Music - More than a Song
			by Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton
			Thomas Y. Crowell Company (c) 1976
			p. 382
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