09-09-2003 05:07									#61
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Naw, he's there. He's even listed in my OP.

	09-09-2003 05:13									#62
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Les Paul invented it, but Gibson was more influential in spreading its use. He was the first to use it as the centerpiece for a band (or something like that).

	09-09-2003 05:15									#63
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Here's a history of the electric guitar that I quickly Googled up: http://www.si.edu/lemelson/guitars/noframes/00main.htm

	09-09-2003 07:26									#64
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Ali Farka Toure as the token world music representative.
I]Niiice.[/I]


So few blues guitarists- odd, considering the importance of the guitar to the spread of blues. So, farewell, Son House and Bukka White....amongst many, many others.

No Fred Frith- clearly experimental guitar playing is a bit scary.

A very dull list, replete with exponents of those mind numbingly boring, decade long guitar solos that filled up the early seventies. I'd swap 'em all for one performance of Death Letter or John the Revelator.

	09-09-2003 12:32									#65
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D'oh! I was searching to find a picture of Les Paul… Somehow I thought that was somebody else with Mary Ford (I didn't remember that his wife had a different last name).

I could only remember footage from their TV show that I'd seen on PBS. They had voice microphones mounted on their guitars, too… pretty wild. That didn't catch on. I guess it was too unwieldy.

I didn't realize Gibson was 19th century…

Yep, that's me: mind like a steel trap. Mangles anything foolish enough to get caught in it.

Mol B: John the Revelator?

	09-09-2003 13:23									#66
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As a guitarist myself I'd have to say that 'best' doesn't just mean the person who can play fastest. It's about who can create great music out of their guitar.