OK, I'll add a couple...
1) Brian May... This is the cat from Queen who invented all kinds of
overdubs and studio techniques... He could also cop some mean Chic-Kool and
the Gang licks when necessary (Another One Bites The Dust...) and he did it
all with a guitar he made, as a teen, with his dad from their old fireplace.
Points for that, to counteract the pompousness.
2) Steve Morse... I played a little bit of this for Daniel A. of Love and
Rockets, and he almost threw up on the spot.... "Turn this wanker sh*t off",
said he. OK, he may have a point. But Morse's band, The Dixie Dregs, did
produce one of the most impossibly funky jamz of all time, the legendary
"Kat Food."
3) Bill Frisell... What... that's a guitar?
4) John Scofield.... Come on y'all, give it UP. OK, OK, so "A Go-Go" sucked
like a lukewarm jacuzzi, but check out his version of "Rockin 'Pneumonia."
Man, he is too bad. (Plus, he's pro- Napster!)
5) Pat Metheny... Less a guitar player than an "avatar of concept" as the LA
Weekly once derivisvely called him. But he can rock it in a wide variety of
styles. He's got his midwestern mode, ("James" era stuff) his Brazillian
mode, his straight-ahead mode, (A beautiful duet with Jim Hall), his
symphonic mode, even his avant-unloveable mode (Brand X with Ornette
Coleman.) What a chameleon this cat is, and teamed with Lyle Mays, it's
double trouble, even without the bass drum!
6) Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian... Enough said... The be-all and end
all-
Don't forget Grant Green, Jim Hall and all those other cats... hey, but that
ain't rock and roll... it's just guitar the way it should swing!!!
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