Today’s Monday. Manic Monday as everyone would like to put in.. but its just a plain day for me. Feels like i’m trapped in the doldrums. Well, anyway, i was browsing the web and i came across this article which i really liked.
Even though its titled Top 10 guitar solos, the description of how guitar solos shoud be is even more interesting. The anecdotes involving Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton described in the text appealed to me the most.
“If you wonder why Eric Clapton isn’t there, let me quote you a remark made to him by Jimi Hendrix: “Man – how come you can’t play rhythm guitar?” He had a point. To invert the popular wisdom, Hendrix was a supreme rhythm guitarist who happened to play exquisite lead guitar. In any case, his work often disposes of the distinction between lead and rhythm. The British blues boom of the mid1960s elevated lead guitarists to cult heroes and relegated rhythm guitar to the role of dull cousin. The archetypal British blues fan resembled a trainspotter. He knew the serial numbers of old blues 78s and liked a static hierarchy of UK blues guitarists, with Clapton at the top.”
“Man – how come you can’t play rhythm guitar?” - that was kinda funny 
Later.
