John Lee Hooker
The son of a sharecropper, John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He gained his fame by performing an electric-guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. He often incorporated other elements in his music, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He came up with his own driving-rhythm boogie style. He once said, “I don’t play a lot of fancy guitar, I don’t want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.” His style couldn’t be defined as urban or country blues, it was something completely different, it was its own genre – mysterious and funky and hypnotic.
John Lee Hooker
Randy Rhoads
A heavy metal guitarist who played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads was a devoted student of classical guitar. He combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. Tragically, he died in a plane accident while touring with Osbourne in Florida in 1982. Despite his too-short career, Rhoads was a major influence on neoclassical meral and is cited as an influence by many guitarists to this day.
Randy Rhoads
