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Ok I’m going to make the assumption that a lot of you are familiar with Rolling Stone magazine and there all time greatest lists. I’m going to be dealing with one list in particular The 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time. Now the one who perennially tops this list is Jimi Hendricks, I don’t want to say he not deserving but he’s there because he developed a technique that of using feedback and distortion in musical presentation, without which several style of music would not exist today. If I’m right in saying that than the real number one guitarist in the world title should go to more than one person in this case I would recommend George Beauchamp and Les Paul or better yet just put the electric guitar up there. Because without that invention you don’t have bands like the Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Metallica or Queen and the list just goes on , can you imagine listening to Metallica with acoustic guitars in Giants stadium, I don’t think so. It’s really amazing when you look at these lists and don’t see the real greats of the past in the top 25 of guiartist or song writers etc. Maybe there aren’t enough 66 year old guys like me that have been listening to music their whole lives maybe they’ve been too busy trying to stay young or lost their record collection. I remember when Norman Knight thought that Allan Freed had used the B side of Rock around the clock as the first time anyone had used the term Rock and Roll sense then there have been a couple of others that have laid claim to that title for that matter how many Rock and roll fan actually remember listing to the radio when rock started. People have forgotten Allan Freed but he invented the term that has thrilled a generation he was also one if not the first DJ to announce the deaths of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens all three are Rock and roll legends that died in a small  plane crash. I think that before my generation disappears completely someone should really go back and do a TV or better still radio documentary about the way it really was the fact that the record companies cheated the artists and even better someone should make sure that everybody my age or a little older looks in their basements and attics to see if they still have the music. I know my collection of early rock was donated to charity and my vinyl collection I put on CDs before I came down here. I think one of the coolest things I ever found in music were the Cruisin Tapes and CDs I would listen to the one that featured east coast DJs and actually remember hearing that show at the time it was done. Well I guess I should turn it back over to Flounder after all it’s his blog thanks for the time old buddy. Old buddy if hadn’t stopped I think I would have fallen asleep and fallen off your boney lap. I’ll tell you what I’ll do for you if any of our readers want more of the stuff you just wrote about I’ll give you more time latter. Right now I’m tired and bored I’m going to lay in the sun for awhile then I’m going scratch you ass for making me sit here so long Ciao.