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If you think Photoshop has caused a problem for celebrities and body image, just imagine the effect that digital editing has had on modern music. The naked guitar, played wilfully or passionately (not the same thing) is a rare beast now.
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In the Sixties and Seventies it was experimented with, tortured, gracefully executed, combined with amplifiers and stage equipment to make unworldly sounds and used to create the widest possible range of sonic landscapes. It’s a striking instrument but can be treated badly and beautifully, it can be used to express every emotion known to humankind, either as a solo instrument or part of a band, Jeff Beck to Paul Weller. There is inevitable weighting to the 1960s and 70s because that was, in America and Europe at least, when the guitar in all forms, especially the electric, was thrust to the fore, and became the instrument of choice for the young dreamer: prog rock to punk, funk to heavy metal. So, a top guitar album list that spans the generations, Radiohead to Guns ‘n’ Roses, Led Zepp to Nirvana. It’s an impossible task: it’s easy to be swayed by the most recent recordings, or last album heard, or rediscovered, so I’ve tried to keep any eye on ground-breaking albums that had a personal effect on me, as well as the more obvious wider significance.