Artist	Song
Queen	We Will Rock You
Bo Diddley	Who Do You Love?
Fleetwood Mac	Underway
Booker T. & The MG's	Green Onions
John Fahey	The Yellow Princess
Sonic Youth	Silver Rocket
Quicksilver Messenger Service	Mona
Dick Dale	Miserlou
Ronnie Earl	Alone With The Blues
Buddy Guy	Stone Crazy
Buffalo Springfield	Bluebird
Government Mule	Soulshine
The Rolling Stones	Happy
John Hiatt	Perfectly Good Guitar

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This is #6 in the series of the 100 greatest rock guitarists ever.

The other five volumes can be found here.

Quiz #6-For a free copy of the entire 8-volume set, answer this one. According to one of these musicians, what should happen if you smash a guitar?

Notes on the sixth volume
39 Brian May: When the lead singer of your band is Freddie Mercury, you're lucky if anybody notices your guitar playing at all. But Brian May was every bit as flamboyant as his frontman, and he defined the sound of Queen with his upper-register guitar shrieks. May juiced the treble all the way for a clear and piecing tone, playing solos with grandeur and campy feather-boa humor. From "Killer Queen" to "Bohemian Rhapsody," he will rock you.
38 Bo Diddley: Diddley's beat was as simple as a diddley bow, the one-stringed African instrument that inspired his nickname. But in songs such as "I'm A Man" and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover," his tremelo-laden guitar argued that rhythm was as important as melody. Born in Mississippi, he grew up in Chicago, where he studied violin and learned how to make guitars. The sounds he coaxed out of his homemade guitar were groundbreaking, influencing just about the entire British invasion. 37 Peter Green: Many six-string devotees - including fellows named Carlos and B.B. - insist that Britain's greatest blues guitarist isn't Clapton or Beck, it's Peter Green. In the Sixties, first with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, then as the original frontman for Fleetwood Mac, Green played with a fire and fluidity that's rarely been matched. But in 1970, with Mac on the verge of stardom, Green quit the band, saying he needed to escape the evils of fame. It was the beginning of a long downward spiral of drug abuse and living on the street. Miraculously, he recovered and took up playing again, the spirit of a true survivor in every note. 36 Steve Cropper: As a member of the Stax Records house band Booker T. & The MG's, Steve Cropper, a white guy from Missouri, was a prime inventor of black, southern-funk guitar -- trebly, chicken-pecked licks fired with stinging, dynamic efficiency. 35 John Fahey: John Fahey created a new, enduring vo- cabulary for acoustic solo guitar - connecting the roots and branches of folk and blues to Indian raga and the advanced harmonies of modern composers such as Charles Ives and Bela Bartok - on an extraordinary run of albums in the 1960s, released on his own Takoma label. Fahey knew American pioneer song in academic detail; he wrote his UCLA's master's thesis on bluesman Charley Patton. His passion was reflected in apocryphal album titles such as The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death. He endured illness and poverty in the 1990s, but reemerged to acclaim from bands such as Sonic Youth until his death in 2001. 34 Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo: Sonic Youth got plenty of attention for attacking their axes with screwdrivers and drumsticks. But their real legacy didn't come from a hardware store; it's the way they opened up rock guitar to alternate tunings. On the band's masterpiece, Daydream Nation, they created strange guitar noise that influenced a generation of alt-rockers from Nirvana to Dashboard Confessional.
33 John Cipollina: Cipollina was half of the twin-guitar team with Gary Duncan that drove San Francisco's Quicksilver Messenger Service, the best acid-rock band of the 1960s. Cipollina playing was enriched with the erotica of flamenco, as in "The Fool" from the band's debut, and his ravishing improvisations on Bo Diddley's "Mona" from Happy Trails are psychedelia supreme. He died in 1989 from severe emphysema.

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