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Guitar Greats
by Univideit Gauitin
http://www.guitarsuniverse.com
There have been numerous guitar greats in the world. It is
often debated as to who were the greatest exponents of
playing guitar. Every guitar enthusiast has his own list
of guitar greats. It is not easy to determine what makes
great guitar players.
One man who is a hot favorite of every guitar player is the
blues guitarist named Robert Johnson. He was a great
exponent of playing guitar. It is believed that in a time
span of just one year, he began playing guitar, mastered
the art and became a legend. Quite unbelievable! There are
also rumors that Johnson had some sort of pact with the
devil. Nevertheless, his greatness has been confirmed by
many great guitar players.
The deal had been done, so the story goes, at a crossroads
somewhere in the Deep South. Johnson himself immortalized
the meetings, probably ironically, in songs like Crossroad
Blues and Me And The Devil Blues. These were some of the few
tracks he was able to record before his death in 1938 at the
tender age of 27. To this day no one knows if he was stabbed
or poisoned or if the devil himself came to claim what he
was owed.
Jimi Hendrix, another great guitarist, also died young at
28. He too became great in a short time. He is more well
known for his antics like playing solos behind his back,
with his teeth, setting his guitar on fire; than for his
superb guitar playing skills. He was a great and fantastic
musician better known for the wrong reasons.
Hendrix was an all-round musician, equally adept at blues,
rock and jazz. Believe it or not, he only had a bassist and
drummer in his live concerts. He was a great exponent of
playing guitar and very innovative as well. Being left
handed, he re strung his guitar upside down.
Like all legends, stories about Hedrix are legion. He was
famous for covering other bands songs in concert and on
record. Sometimes he would do his cover of a track before
the original band had managed to perform it live, as was the
case with the Beatles 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club
Band'. Though he couldn't read or write musical notation,
it's said that a single listen to a new song was enough for
him to be able to play it. He is also one of a very small
number of musicians who earned the approval of the hardest
man to please in the history of popular music, Miles Davis.
The guitar player takes central stage in so many forms of
music that the guitar greats in most people's minds aren't
just rock or bluesmen. Jazz players like Django Rheinhardt,
classicists like John Williams, or flamenco guitarists like
Paco de Lucia feature on many lists. Is it any wonder no-one
can really agree?
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