Guitar Player Presents 50 Unsung Heroes of the Guitar

Everyone knows the legends ä Hendrix Page Clapton Beck and all the other six-string giants ä but the evolution of guitarcraft wasn't forged purely by ðber-famous players with large cultural footprints. Scores of lesser-known pioneers such as Tommy Bolin Danny Cedrone Tampa Red and Sister Rosetta Tharpe contributed vast numbers of licks riffs solos tones compositions techniques and musical concepts that inspired generations of guitarists and advanced the art of playing guitar. Their stories are as critical to modern guitar music as is electricity or amplification. Any guitarist seeking to devise a unique and individual sound should study the wacky off-kilter unfamiliar and criminally underutilized creative concepts of the unsung greats straight from the pages of ÊGuitar PlayerÊ magazine.

MICHAEL MOLENDA grew up amid the music, cultural rebellion, and hopefulness of San Francisco's Summer of Love, and learned that guitars could (sometimes) topple tyrants. A performer, producer, studio owner, record-label president, and international recording artist, Molenda became editor in chief of Guitar Player magazine in 1998.

Everyone knows the legends a Hendrix Page Clapton Beck and all the other six-string giants a but the evolution of guitarcraft wasn't forged purely by dber-famous players with large cultural footprints. Scores of lesser-known pioneers such as Tommy Bolin Danny Cedrone Tampa Red and Sister Rosetta Tharpe contributed vast numbers of licks riffs solos tones compositions techniques and musical concepts that inspired generations of guitarists and advanced the art of playing guitar. Their stories are as critical to modern guitar music as is electricity or amplification. Any guitarist seeking to devise a unique and individual sound should study the wacky off-kilter unfamiliar and criminally underutilized creative concepts of the unsung greats straight from the pages of EGuitar PlayerE magazine.

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