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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:00:27 CDT
From:         The Little Inquisitor <U33963@UICVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: top 10 guitar list
              3 Sep 1992 19:06:41 GMT from <ujwb@UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU>

On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:06:41 GMT Jeff Beer said:
>ALL BEER TOP 10 LIST on GUITARS TO HANG THE WORLD WITH:
>(see, I could do pub for your metal bands...)
>
>1.    Pete Cosey, Reggie Lucas: PANGEA & AGHARTA (Miles Davis, leader)
>      This is like having twin Jimi Hendrix!
>
>2.    Segovia:  Chaconne (from 2nd Violin Partitia)
>
>      Segovia is the Spanish guitar master.  On this particular
>      selection, it is a transcription of a Bach violin piece.
>      Gorgeous beyond belief...
>
>3.    Derek Baily:  The Uh Uh Uh, from Steve Lacy "Dreams"
>      Hey, they got sort of a rock groove on this, in a Lacyan way...
>      Derek uses a wah-wah.  Pretty unorthodox, normally he uses
>      a saxophone mouthpiece cap...
>
>4.    John McGlaughlin:  Jack Johnson (Miles Davis, leader)
>      How bout the shuffel with Billy Cobham, and Miles strutting over
>      Mac?  The way Mac comps for Miles, that is more interesting
>      than any solo.  Remember, good licks does not good music make.
>      It is a total musical effort, and how well the band plays together
>      determines how good the music is.
>
>5.    Jimi Hendrix:  MACHINE GUN, from Band Of Gypsies, Filmore New Years Eve
>
>      There are tons of Hendrix of course, but this one reminds me most
>      of Coltrane.
>
>6.    James Blood Ulmer:  No Wave (out of print Moers album)
>      The 1st album with Music Revelation Ensemble,  it is some
>      harmolodic funk a la Ornette Coleman.  The time swirls in a
>      hundred directions at once, but it is still funky.  Blood
>      has 100 different articulations, much like Monk had, and
>      like Clifford Brown.
>
>7.    Sonny Sharock:  LAST CALL, from Last Exit, Koln
>      People have called this band "metal", but when Sonny had to
>      play through the house Marshall's he said: "The guitar player in
>      those Marshall amps is not me!"
>
>8.    John Scofield & Bill Frisell:  THRILL SEEKERS, from Bass Desire's
>      Second Sight.
>
>      Scofield is Mr Super-Line, and Frizz is spacey with his splattering
>      chords.  Great contrast between two guitar styles of today's
>      jazz.
>
>9.    Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman:  Song X   (anything)
>
>      and you thought Pat was an innocent country boy playing Yuppie Muzak?
>      He is on top of Ornette's music, which has an entirely different
>      set of rules than what most everyone else plays.
>
>10.   Baden Powell, SARAVA, from Trisetza on Guitar
>
>      The Brazilian master, playing a blazing afro-samba with chuica's
>      blaring like a humming bird on speed...
>      The music is in the samba/bossa nova style, and in terms of guitar
>      technique, Powell also picks a lot of influences from jazz and
>      Iberian guitar styles.
>
>There are some people I like that I missed, I have an interesting Hans
>Reichel LP.   Kevin Eubanks (now on the Tonight Show Band with Branford)
>does some interesting things on Dave Holland's Extensions.  Frisell's
>work with Paul Motian should be checked out.  Though he plays lute,
>you can't ignore Lutz Kirchoff.   Grant Green, he started a thing.  Jim
>Hall would swing anybody's book.
>
>The others?
>
>We covered Jimi, he is my favorite.
>As for Zappa, I never liked him much as a soloist, but he always seemed to set
>some nice things up for his ensembles and to accompany his soloists.
>There are others, like Fripp, Belew (sp), Holdsworth, who are good, but never
>turned me on.  Ditto with Stevie, but I have heard some good things from
>Eric.  For blues, my favorite is Buddy Guy.   Of course there are so
>many unknown blues guitarist that can come in and kill.  Go to blues
>clubs in Chicago and you will see.
>
>Jeff

Beer Man: Your last remarks about blues clubs in Chicago are some of the smarte
st I've seen on the list in a long time.  I've seen virtual "unknowns" do mind-
boggling guitar work.  And while not unknown, why hasn't anyone (to my knowledg
e) mentioned the legendary Elmore? What gives?

Renato
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