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Originally Posted by harvey
take off Marc Bolan and we have a deal  nice to see a young guy with so much good taste 
Note: I don't know Bert Jansch so take him off as well  |
I love Marc Bolan because he got down to the basics of blues and rock guitar and spun it with a weird sexy strut, writing these fantastic simple songs that all sound like they've existed forever. Like they belong in the great american songbook of anonymous late 19th century mississippi blues....but he was a jewish kid from england.
Bert Jansch is what you hear in the folk picking styles and acoustic songs of Jimmy Page, Bob Dylan, Johnny Marr, Paul Westerberg and tons of others. You'll always hear his name droppped when the greats are prodded for influences in their interviews.
Remember Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Side"? That's actually Page's tribute to Jansch's "Blackwaterside"...the music went totally unchanged.
And BIG BIG BIG props to the guy who posted Blixa Bargeld earlier in the thread. Glad some music nerds are coming out to help stop this ridiculous talk of fucking Yngwie and Steve Vai.