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GUITAR MEN
Robert D. Morritt
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 At a concert in Germany, a police officer pointed his gun
at Townshend and ordered him to stop smashing the guitar. Yet, in 1989,
Townshend reassembled the pieces of one of his smashed guitars as a
sculpture, later featured during the summer of 2009 at The Henry Ford museum.
When Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, President George W. Bush, the United
States House of Representatives and an uncounted number of musicians and
performers paid tribute to him. Mick Jagger stated, "We will never see
his like again." While in the army and stationed in Fort Campbell,
Kentucky, Hendrix began to sleep with his guitar to keep it safe and was
bullied and on one occasion, beaten. Joe Becker, Randy Bachman, Marc Bolan,
Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Bryan Adams, John Fogerty, David
Gilmour, "Jimi" Hendrix, Hank Marvin, Jimmy Page, Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Link Wray, Trent Reznor, Joe Satriani, Lee Mack Ritenour, Steve Vai, The
Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Who, The Troggs, Procul Harum, Al Casey, Duane
Eddy, James Burton, Bo Diddley, The Ventures and Dick Dale. Some of the
greatest guitarists of the past five decades! Guitar Men is an overview of a
wide cross-section of musicians who were instrumental in the creation of
modern popular music and contains their biographies, repertoire, musical
insights, styles and their contribution to popular music.
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