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.