To guess at Mac's question...

Duane Eddy?

Chuck Berry?

These are perhaps the two first "guitar gods" of the rock and roll era. Better guitarists came after, but these two symbolized the rock revolution and separated the kids music from their parent's music.

And yes, I think the guitar is diminishing in popularity. But I don't think it is going away.

The saxophone's popularity faded when guitar effects enabled them to do many of the things that sax players could do but guitarists couldn't.

My parent's generation had the trumpet and clarinet as the lead instrument of choice with the trombone a close third.

The synth is on top of the heap now.

Fortunately, I play to a baby-boomer audience, so I can still play lots of guitar and sax -- and I bring a wind synthesizer to the gig as well. I actually leave the keyboard home and sequence the keyboard parts on my backing tracks. As essential as the synthesizer is, the guitar, sax, and wind synth have more stage appeal than the keyboard does.

Just my 2 cents (for whatever that's worth)

Notes

Last edited by Notes Norton; 11/16/10 12:18 PM.
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