dht@druri.UUCP (Davis Tucker) (10/14/85)
>Clearly because they are all wrong! The best guitarists are Fred Frith >and Robert Frip, and there can be *no* argument. Oh *yes* there can... 1) Jimi Hendrix (whom Fripp defers to as having more ability and soul) 2) Jeff Beck (who is probably the best living guitarist) 3) Steve Morse (Guitar Player's Musician Of The Year about three yrs running) 4) Eric Johnson (Texas phenom, soon-to-be-released on Warner Bros) 5) John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra) 6) Eddie Van Halen (Five thousand guitarists can't be wrong...) 7) Johnny Winter (still crazy after all these years) 8) B. B. King (who taught everybody how to play) 9) Eric Clapton (who cares who taught him? He's still great) 10) And a host of other guitarists I don't have time to mention. Like Alvin Lee, John Scofield, Phil Manzanera ("807 Live"), James Blood Ulmer, Lead- belly, Jerry Reed (one fine picker), Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Django Reinhardt, Andres Segovia, Leslie West, Neil Schon (early days), Mike Rutherford, Skunk Baxter, Brian May, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Al DiMeola, Peter Green, Andy Partridge, Andy Gill, Jerry Garcia, Dave Edmunds, Dickie Betts, Duane Allman, J. J. Cale, Freddie King, Adrian Belew, Roy Buchanan, Ray Gomez, King Sunny Ade, Todd Rundgren (Utopia period), Steve Howe (the Yes days), Carlos Santana (fusion albums), Mike Stern (late of Miles Davis and Jaco), and of course, the King Of White Trash, Dino Lee his own bad self. Davis Tucker