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Guitar Greats
by Univideit Gauitin
http://www.guitarsuniverse.com

Mutual agreement on greatness could be very subjective.
Individual choices may vary if one tries to compile a list
of guitar legends. Different people would have different
yardsticks of greatness per season. But an attempt to make
a list would be quite interesting.

Many connoisseurs consider Robert Johnson, the blues
guitarist, great. He started as an average guitarist but
became great in a period of just one year. Many legends
thrived to explain such sudden burst of talent. Some gave a
Dr Faustus like theory that he had made a pact with the
Devil. His rivals and common people disbelieved his
explanation of practice and hard work for his newfound
talent.

It is believed that the deal with the devil was done at a
crossroads somewhere in the Deep South. In songs such as
Crossroad Blues and Me And The Devil Blues, Johnson has
mentioned the meetings. Unfortunately, Johnson did not live
long and it was at the young age of 27 that he was able to
record some of his songs. His death remains as much as much
a mystery as his skills of playing guitar. Some believe he
was murdered, some think he was poisoned while some also
say he was the victim of the devil. There are a few other
arguments as well.

It is a coincidence that the other great guitarist after
Johnson also had an early death. This great was Jimi
Hendrix, considered by many as the greatest guitarist to
ever grace the Earth and the man who revolutionized the art
of playing guitar. However, he was popular for his other
activities also,which included playing solos behind his back
or with histeeth and famously setting his guitar on fire.
It is believed that he was oblivious of the fact that what a
great musician he was.

Hendrix was a great innovator. Being left handed, he
re-strung his guitar upside down for ease of play. He had
all types of music in his bouquet like blues, rock or jazz.
His talent could be gauged from the fact that he gave live
concerts with support from just a bassist and drummer.

Like all legends, stories about Hedrix are legion. He was
famous for covering other bands songs in concert and on
record. Sometimes he would do his cover of a track before
the original band had managed to perform it live, as was the
case with the Beatles 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club
Band'. Though he couldn't read or write musical notation,
it's said that a single listen to a new song was enough for
him to be able to play it. He is also one of a very small
number of musicians who earned the approval of the hardest
man to please in the history of popular music, Miles Davis.

Guitar players rule the roost in many forms of music.
People do not view them only as rock or blues man. That is
why Django Rheinhardt, John Williams and Paco de Lucia are
considered universally great. No doubt complete agreement
on guitar legends cannot be achieved.

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