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...hundreds of other schools. Who would be more enthusiastic about giving kids a trumpet to toot or a guitar to strum than those whose talent had been nurtured and who had got air time on Sykes' channel? Under Sykes' Save the Music campaign, Wynton Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and Gloria Estefan, among many others, eagerly raised money to purchase instruments--and that was before all the buzz about what music can do for the soul and the psyche. By the time school bells ring this September, kids in more than 500 schools in 40 communities will be playing...
...addition to an assortment of sheet music ranging from Eric Clapton to Beethoven, Humphreys sold a mix of classical, folk and world music...
...with any of your buddy's selections, there are bound to be some agreements and disappointments. Diddley doing his classic blues tune "I'm a Man" really can't fail under any circumstances, and Eric Clapton's blistering guitar work on Cream's "I Feel Free" succeeds in any decade, while Frank Sinatra could croon names from the phone book and still make it sound mellifluous. Unfortunately, the producers have tried to put cast member Little Steven onto one selection, "Inside of Me", and he sounds like a poor man's Bob Dylan (who incidentally appears on "Gotta Serve Somebody...
...equivalent, I realized that lead guitar is really where it's at. Although I would still love to have the late Keith Moon's talent on the skins, all of the true greats in rock-and-roll history have been lead guitarists. Just think of: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Lou Reed, Albert King, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy. They have more talent in their respective pinky toenails than the Backstreet Boys would have if they multiplied their talent by a quadrillion. Yup. Multiplying zero by any positive integer still yields zero...
...Soon after I discovered these guitar heroes, I realized that I wanted the powerful ability to play windmill guitar like Townshend on a turnthatracketdown classic like "My Generation," and I wanted the versatility to coax the most melodic notes out of my axe like Clapton on "Layla...