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BarryS
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BarryS
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Joined: 07/06/00
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07/11/2000 6:16 am
Hey guys, WAKE UP!! IT'S NOT THE 80'S ANYMORE!!!!

Just kidding.... You could say the same thing to me about the 60's....

Thanks for speaking up, Luigi. I was beginning to get a bit lonely. I see that you're quite a jazz fan. I'm surprised that you've mentioned nothing of the blues, however. Where the guitar be today if not for the blues? Long forgotten, probably. It was musicians like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, B.B. King, Albert King, and the like who helped to elevate the guitar to its status as the chief instrument of rock and roll and popular music in general. I admire the torchbearing jazz musicians very much as well, but one must give credit where credit is due.

And, I'm sorry, but Steve Vai deserves none.

Now allow me to duck out of here before a lynch mob starts after me......