So, this just in…a little bit of DC Record Fair news—I’ll be your DJ from noon to one this Saturday. It’s a last minute substitution, but one I’m embracing. In this article we are going to talk about guitars and heroes. Want to be just like them? Well, it is never too late. Learn guitar at your own pace and time using the list of beginner guitars and other musical instruments on https://musiccritic.com.
As fate would have it, this all came together as I was planning this giveaway post for the above book, Guitar Player Presents: Guitar Heroes of the ’70s—and suddenly a theme was borne for Saturday’s set—classic FM radio rock of the “deep cuts” variety. Maybe some AM gems too – we’ll see.
I was sent a copy of Guitar Heroes of the ’70s a few weeks back and it really hasn’t left the nightstand since because it’s perplexing—if video killed the radio star, then the 2000’s have killed – the guitar heroes. (For a second I was ready to opine that perhaps grunge undid the guitar slingers, but Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains easily prove that wrong.)
“Launched in 1967, Guitar Player magazine was at the center of the six-string explosion of the 1970s, when guitar gods like Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Johnny Winter, and Rick Derringer shaped a decade and redefined guitar playing for generations. And nearly every guitar hero of the 1970s took time out to sit down with Guitar Player’s expert writers, all top-flight guitarists themselves to tell stories; share secrets; talk about their guitars, amps, and customized rigs; and explain how they got some of those incredible guitar sounds.
Guitar Player has opened its archives to present a thrilling collection of intimate, detailed, and tech-savvy conversations with the great guitarists of the decade.
Guitar Heroes of the ’70s features interviews with Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, Michael Bloomfield, Ry Cooder, Tony Iommi, Mick Ronson, Ron Wood, Joe Walsh, David Gilmour, Randy Bachman, Brian May, Carlos Santana, Frank Zappa, and many other artists…”
I think they should have included Ace Frehley in the mix, but that’s me.
So, as I mentioned above—it’a a giveaway! We have a copy of Guitar Player Presents: Guitar Heroes of the ’70s to award one winner who can answer the question—along the lines of the Guitar Heroes in bold above—who from our current crop of bands (let’s say from the 2000’s) can honestly be added to the above list or seem to be headed in that direction and most importantly …why?
Lord knows you’ll need a week for this one. We’ll award a winner next Wednesday, 6/8.
