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At 12:19 AM +0100 6/24/01, John Matthews wrote:
>
>that to me is what is so magical about the guitar- the personal expression
>that is possible. The favourite players I mentioned all definitely have
>that. The guitar to me is probably the closest  instrument in terms of
>expression you can get to the human voice, and, incidentally, most of my
>favourite guitar players are also good singers as well. The rest maybe are
>frustrated/not confident singers??????

It is the defining instrument of the rock ensemble and is very 
flexible for the kind of rhythm and soloing expression required in 
that context, but as far as simple free expressiveness goes I think a 
violin or sax could eat it alive.  Problem is its not very easy to 
make a Rock power trio with violin bass and drums or sax bass and 
drums that could do convincing Zepplin covers.

Somebody (a rather insecure individual actually) took issue with my 
saying that a guitar is a more rocking instrument than a keyboard 
once but a simple look at the last 45 years of Rock history should 
make the statement about as controversial as the likelyhood of a 
sunrise tomorrow.  Count and compare the number of guitar-drum-bass 
trios that made it big as compared to the number of key-drum-bass 
trios that made it big and then tell me otherwise.

This is not a slam on keyboardists who are IMHO as a group more 
proficient musicians than guitarists on the average.  It is more like 
simply physics and the requirements of the genre.
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