Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!kirsch From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Another Greatest Guitarist Candidate Message-ID: <2500@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 14:19:14 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2500 Posted: Sat Nov 2 14:19:14 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:57:49 EST References: <626@h-sc1.UUCP> <524@scirtp.UUCP> Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Distribution: net Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 35 Summary: In article <524@scirtp.UUCP> todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones) writes: >> My nominee for best guitarist is the jazz guitarist >> Stanley Jordan (first album "Magic Touch" just released >> recently) - I believe that he is affiliated with Blue Note. > >He is perfectly primed for MUZAK if ya' ask me. > >> What is special about Stanley Jordan is that he plays the >> guitar in a way that I believe no one else has ever done it > >Ever since Eddie Van Halen stole this ancient trick from the >great blues masters, electric guitarists have been beating it >into the ground. Sorry, Stanley. What do you expect from a >Princeton graduate anyway? > The "trick" that Van Halen uses is a little bit different than Stanley Jordan's technique. Jordan has invented entirely new voicings for chords that was before thought to be impossible. While Van Halen primarily uses his hammer on technique on one string at a time, Jordan is playing whole chords on all six strings at a time. (This is NOT a comment on who is better--just wanted to clarify Jordan's technique) -- Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of: Paul Kirsch St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, Pa { astrovax | allegra | bpa | burdvax } !sjuvax!kirsch Warning: Objects in Terminal Room are Closer than they Appear...