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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
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 14:19:14 1985
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Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
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Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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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)

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Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of:

                              Paul Kirsch
                              St. Joseph's University
                              Philadelphia, Pa

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