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Originally Posted by sharksfan2000
People have been discussing a lot of guitarists in recent threads here and on the Pre-Rumours boards - Bloomfield, Clapton, Hendrix, SRV, and others, as well as Green and Kirwan. It got me thinking...so many of these great players had their careers sidelined or ended altogether by drugs, illness, or an early death. Who among these guitarists do you feel probably reached their full potential before things went bad for them? Which ones do you think never did reach the heights they were capable of?......
Many great musicians did their groundbreaking work early in their careers and then spent lots of time trying to live up to that early acclaim. Some pushed farther and acheived even greater things but many did not.
What do other people think about all this?
PS - sorry for getting into comparisons, Vinnie   |
somehow i missed this thread. an interesting case between the two extremes (reached potential before, never reached potential) and for me the saddest was rory gallagher. was a triple threat like peter (great player, writer, and singer) that distinguished him from the players (beck, kossoff) and less multi-faceted (srv, page,clapton). had a long career but (i think) avoided pulling a clapton (uninspired after early 70's). died too early - had more great music left (his contribution to the peter green tribute record is stunning). should be in the rock and roll hall too.... zero