Ranked by Rolling Stone's David Fricke as the 80th best guitarist of all time. Hmmm. A man who had such a distinctive style that just hit my sweet spot EVERY time he came to the solo. As Bob Quine said: "By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso." I was lucky enough to see him perform seven times with Richard Hell. The first time supporting The Clash in 1977 at The Glasgow Apollo and then the six times that The Voidoids supported Costello at the Dominion Theatre in London in 78. Maybe my old man mind is playing tricks but it was Hell and his band I paid to see at that run and every night when it came to Quine to solo (on a lot of songs that were unreleased at the time) it seemed that he took a different journey to get from A to Z in the solos every night. Sends shivers up my spine still... I have in this mix tried to avoid the obvious choices and my BIG thanks go to James 'Hound' Marshall for the unreleased tracks that I liberated before the links at his blog went dead. Remember Quine any old way you want but remember him. And seriously man...80th best guitarist?
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great stuff! interesting interview with him here : http://www.i94bar.com/interviews/robert-quine-remembered
Ranked by Rolling Stone's David Fricke as the 80th best guitarist of all time. Hmmm. A man who had such a distinctive style that just hit my sweet spot EVERY time he came to the solo. As Bob Quine said: "By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso." I was lucky enough to see him perform seven times with Richard Hell. The first time supporting The Clash in 1977 at The Glasgow Apollo and then the six times that The Voidoids supported Costello at the Dominion Theatre in London in 78.
Maybe my old man mind is playing tricks but it was Hell and his band I paid to see at that run and every night when it came to Quine to solo (on a lot of songs that were unreleased at the time) it seemed that he took a different journey to get from A to Z in the solos every night. Sends shivers up my spine still...
I have in this mix tried to avoid the obvious choices and my BIG thanks go to James 'Hound' Marshall for the unreleased tracks that I liberated before the links at his blog went dead.
Remember Quine any old way you want but remember him.
And seriously man...80th best guitarist?