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>as far as i'm concerned, pat metheny might just be the baddest guitarist >playing right now. as a huge straight-ahead jazz fan, he blows away the competition and i'm not just talking technically, but creatively. I just caught Pat's show in Austin a couple weeks back, and it occurred to me, after having seen him live about five times now since the late 1970s, that he's got one of the most recognizable voices among contemporary jazz guitarists out there. His show lasted three hours, and it seemed like only half that long!! It's also his compositional style. . .the complexities of harmonic structures, the chord progressions that keep cycling into new areas. . . .that make him so damned relevant. On the other hand. . . it's futile to try to compare jazz guitarists who are quite different. For example, Terje Rypdal is also jazz as is Ahmad Mansour as is Derek Bailey as is Leni Stern, etc., etc.. So many excellent, unique players out there not getting the recognition they deserve in the corporate world of music production and distribution. As a bassist, what annoys me (oh God, y'all please don't attack me too badly!) is that so many electric bassists sound undistinguishable these days, no matter the idiom. I play mostly fretless P-bass (for a few years now) and a bit of electric upright (a recent thing), but for the most part the more interesting/influential bassists to me are those that play acoustic. I'm not saying there are no interesting elec. bassists; just comparatively few. Sorry for temporarily changing the subject. Michael -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael S. Yoder, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies Texas A&M International University Department of Social Sciences 5201 University Blvd. Laredo, TX 78041 (956) 326-2634 FAX (956) 326-2459 http://www.tamiu.edu/~myoder/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=