Ever notice how a lot of great guitar players are named Steve? Steve Howe (Yes), Steve Vai, Steve Harris (Iron Maiden), Steve Lukather (Toto), Steve Morse (now with Deep Purple), Steve Hackett (Genesis), Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), and the late Steve Clark (Def Leppard) and Stevie Ray Vaughan. You got a few Jimmys too (Hendrix, Page, Vaughan), a couple of Erics (Clapton, Johnson), three Adrians (Vandenburg from Whitesnake, Belew from King Crimson, and Smith from Iron Maiden), and even a guy named Vivian (Campbell, from both Def Leppard and Whitesnake) but still it seems like an inordinate number of Steves.
Look around for great guitar players named Graeme, and you'll be looking for a while. In fact, look around for anyone remotely famous named Graeme (with that spelling), and you'll find exactly two - a composer named Graeme Revell, who's done lots of movie soundtracks, and Graeme MacKay, who does political cartoons for the Hamilton Spectator. Maybe someday I'll join that list, though as what, I don't know.
1 comment:
Dude, don't you know... The Steve's are planning on taking over the world! We have been planning to do so for quite some time. Oh, wait, I probably shouldn't be saying this to a non-Steve.
Steve B.
(Oh, you forgot Skynard guitarist Steve Gaines, and Little Steven as in Steven Van Zandt)
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