Big Jim, you're killing me. I'd give a thumb to play with Rory Gallagher. Back when I was 15 I was singing in a band and we did a lousy cover of "Laundromat".

I'd be happy just to look at his perfectly wrecked guitar. Yessir, he was a great one.

Jeff Beck? Agreed, I guess, but most top ten guitarist lists will usually include Jeff. Certainly he is underappreciated by the masses, which is what you're probably saying. I was writing the other day about how it was The Jeff Beck Group that really put "arena rock" in gear...with Peter Grant and Jimmy Page along for the ride on that first tour of the US to watch and learn and subsequently create Led Zeppelin.

Yeah, it's hard to learn guitar when you're drunk! But once you learn it, you can then PLAY drunk...just ask all the Greats... wink

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