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From: wimp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Haferman)
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Subject: Re: Some better guitarists than Fripp and Frith...
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 23:33:19 EDT
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>>Clearly because they are all wrong!  The best guitarists are Fred Frith
>>and Robert Frip, and there can be *no* argument.

>Oh *yes* there can... 

>1)  Jimi Hendrix (whom Fripp defers to as having more ability and soul)

>2)  Jeff Beck    (who is probably the best living guitarist)

>3)  Steve Morse  (Guitar Player's Musician Of The Year about three yrs running)

>4)  Eric Johnson (Texas phenom, soon-to-be-released on Warner Bros)

>5)  John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra)

>6)  Eddie Van Halen (Five thousand guitarists can't be wrong...)

>7)  Johnny Winter (still crazy after all these years)

>8)  B. B. King (who taught everybody how to play)

>9)  Eric Clapton (who cares who taught him? He's still great)

>10) And a host of other guitarists I don't have time to mention. Like Alvin
>    Lee, John Scofield, Phil Manzanera ("807 Live"), James Blood Ulmer, Lead-
>    belly, Jerry Reed (one fine picker), Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Django
>    Reinhardt, Andres Segovia, Leslie West, Neil Schon (early days), Mike
>    Rutherford, Skunk Baxter, Brian May, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Al DiMeola,
>    Peter Green, Andy Partridge, Andy Gill, Jerry Garcia, Dave Edmunds,
>    Dickie Betts, Duane Allman, J. J. Cale, Freddie King, Adrian Belew,
>    Roy Buchanan, Ray Gomez, King Sunny Ade, Todd Rundgren (Utopia period),
>    Steve Howe (the Yes days), Carlos Santana (fusion albums), Mike Stern
>    (late of Miles Davis and Jaco), and of course, the King Of White Trash,
>    Dino Lee his own bad self.




All of these guys are/were great.  I don't want to say who is better than
anyone else because it is a matter of personal opinion,  but a couple of
my favorites have been left out:

  1) Frank Zappa  (as it says on the back of SHUT UP AND PLAY YOUR GUITAR,
                   "FZ can play the guitar."  Check any Frank album if you
                   have doubts.)

  2) Doc Watson  (for you folk fans)




     Jeff Haferman