DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (Deryk Barker) (04/10/85)
I would agree with the comment that most latter-day guitarists sound
much the same - although I'm not sure I'd attribute all their style to
Hendrix. There are Hendirx imitators and there are more traditional
(Clapton - B B King) stylists. I would also agree that there are a few
modern exceptions and accept Ry Cooder and Richard Thompson. I would
dispute Mark Knopfler but would wish to add Neil Young and Tom verlaine
- both of whom seem, to me, to inhabit a similar realm of guitar
playing. In a lot of ways thee two are similar to Thompson particularly
the way that all three can suddenly make you doubt that it is a guitar
you're listening to, but I would say that Thompson has the best
technique of the three; he is also th most consistent - the other two
have moments of poure gold (many of them admittedly) but also moments of
pure lead. At least you can't help but recognise their playing though -
which is more than can be said for most of today's guitar-(non-)heroes.
"He never ever learned to read or write too well,
But he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell."
deryk.