BBC6 Music Axe Factor Poll results are out and the winner is

Posted on April 10th, 2010 GuitarSavvy No comments

The results of the BBC6 Music Axe Factor Poll have been announced (BBC Music listeners/readers were asked to vote for their top guitarist from the last 30 years). More than 30,000 votes were cast by listeners on the BBC6 Music website and the final tally is as follows:

1. John Frusciante – Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Slash – Guns n’ Roses
3. Matt Bellamy – Muse
4. Johnny Marr – The Smiths
5. Tom Morello – Rage Against The Machine
6. Kirk Hammett – Metallica
7. Jonny Greenwood – Radiohead
8. Prince
9. Jack White – White Stripes
10. Peter Buck – REM
11. The Edge – U2
12. Thurston Moore
13. John Squire
14. Josh Homme
15. Graham Coxon
16. Omar Rodriguez Lopez
17. James Dean Bradfield
18. Jeff Buckley
19. Noel Gallagher
20. Kurt Cobain

So John Frusciante, former blues/rock/funk guitarist with the Red Hot Chili Peppers has come out top. We’re also very pleased to see Slash and Johnny Marr on the list – Johnny Marr will be the focus of one of our Guitar Influences quick fact files (coming soon).

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Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr shares on the forthcoming album from The Cribs…

Posted on September 6th, 2009 GuitarSavvy No comments

Johnny Marr former guitarist with The Smiths, currently with The Cribs (and soon to be featured in the GuitarSavvy Guitar Influences section) has gone on record as saying that the forthcoming Cribs album (‘Ignore the Ignorant‘ is due out on 7th September 2009) is the best music he has worked on for 25 years. Now a quick bit of mental arithmatic tells me that we’re talking about stuff that came out in 1984 or so. Looking at the career of Johnny Marr, we’re probably talking about the peak of the Smiths career – so this could be something special.

If you’re too young to remember The Smiths (vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bass player Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce), this is the Manchester band (formed in 1982) who defined a generation of kids back in the 80′s with some amazing studio albums:

• The Smiths  (1984)
• Meat is Murder (1985)
• The Queen is Dead (1986)
• Strangeways Here We Come (1987)

The Smiths also released a number of compilation albums between 1984 and 2008).
So The Cribs are currently on tour in the UK and Ireland and you can check them out at a venue near you. If you’re a guitar fan, you should check them out, if only to see the legendary Johnny Marr play (his unique guitar sound stamps its mark over some great sounding tracks – see the vid at the bottom of this post) – tickets are available from Ticketmaster:

Source: NME News

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