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From: blickstein@tle.DEC (Dave Blickstein)
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Subject: Best guitarist
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 10:42:09 EDT
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>Well, if your willing to concede that "Guitar Players" magazine is a source
>to respect, why don't you  say who has won the "best overall guitarist" more 
>times than Steve Morse?  Steve Howe is the only guitarist to win it 5 times 
>and is the only guitarist to be promoted to the "Hall of Fame" in the "overall"
>category.  In your own words, this claim is "practically unchallengeable".
> 
>		- John Lipinski		{ihnp4,decvax}!masscomp!lip

Well I might challenge it by saying that Morse hasn't been in the public eye as
long as Howe.   Morse is still dominating and there's nothing to indicate that
he won't win 5 or more times.  I think Morse's wins have extra weight when you
consider that unlike Howe, who played in a superstar rock band and is known to
anyone reasonably familiar with rock music, Morse has won in spite of his
considerable obscurity (no hits, no airplay, hard-to-find albums). It's clear
that guitarists have had to seek Morse out, whereas a day rarely goes by that I
don't hear an old Yes tune on the radio.  Also Howe seems to have slacked off
since he left Yes. 

But in all seriousness, it's clear that both Morse and Howe (and many others)
are valid nominations.   I didn't mean to belittle Howe's contributions to
guitar playing.   Obviously there is no universal best. 

	Dave Blickstein

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