How the hell can blacks be entirely absent from th rock guitar genre?! They have contributed so much to to guitar work, and yet there are no like black kurt cobains?!?!?!
2007-10-07 22:13:12 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
BESIDES JIMI HENDRIX!!!!! GAWD!!!!!
2007-10-07 22:17:02 · update #1
Ike Turner? Really!?! I'd have to turn off my sense of humanity to listen, but I've never given him a chance, I guess...
2007-10-07 22:20:17 · update #2
Slash is black?!?!?! What the ****?!?!?!?! Wait a minute- stop the ******* bus!!!! WHAT?!?!?!?!
2007-10-07 22:21:37 · update #3
Slash
Vernon Reid
Jimi Hendrix
Wait a minute, Kurt was known more for his writing than for his guitar playing.
2007-10-07 22:19:26 · answer #1 · answered by Hater2 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Famous Rock Guitarists
2016-10-01 23:17:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black Rock Guitarists
2016-12-29 19:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by gimenez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand your Kurt Cobain reference at all in the context of your question, as Kurt was, at best, a fairly mediocre guitarist - to say that was a bad example is quite an understatement!
Jimi Hendrix's racial make-up contained more than just African-American (not that that matters - do you hear the sound of a man's skin, or the sound of his music?) And some of the greatest rock guitarists of all time have been black, e.g. Vernon Reid, formerly from Living Color and Eddie Hazel, of Funkadelic.
There's a historical reason why today's rock guitarists are predominantly white, and here it is:
Because white folks will buy black music more readily from a white man than they will from a black man.
That's been true from Elvis Presley onwards. And make no mistake, anyone with any understanding of musical history will tell you that rock music is essentially black music.
From Robert Johnson, through Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf, to Chuck Berry, generations of white guitarists have merely built on the foundations laid by forefathers who were black.
When Keith Richards plays in front of 50,000 people and fires up another Berry-derived riff, guess what?
You're hearing, in effect, a black guitarist.
EDIT: LOL, All these hair-splitting debates about whether Slash and Tom Morello are really "black" are missing the point completely. Let's say that Tom's actually 54.789382% white, so let's call him "white", OK? Big deal. The bigger picture is that without the foundation laid by black guitarists, there would be few white guitarists today, at least in the rock idiom. Sheesh.
2007-10-07 22:31:28 · answer #4 · answered by Bowzer 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
Not bad Answer God but my favorite in that era was T-Bone Walker. If you've ever wondered how Hendrix got the idea of playing the guitar behind his back, well T-Bone was doing the same some 40 years prior!
Another great Black Rock Guitarist is Rocky George from Fishbone & Suicidal Tendencies.
2007-10-07 22:54:17 · answer #5 · answered by phatzwave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2014-09-13 04:01:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jimi Hendrix
2007-10-07 22:15:53 · answer #7 · answered by zipzeronada 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jon Butcher
Tom Morello
Vernon Reid
Victor of Sammy Hagar's band
Robert Randolph
Phil Lynnott was a bassist, not a guitarist.
There are others, but I am sleepy.
2007-10-08 00:38:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jimi Hendrix, Phil Lynnot, Robert Cray, Ike Turner, Lenny Kravitz, Chuck Berry.
And that's just for starters.
2007-10-07 22:18:31 · answer #9 · answered by Orla C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Know (Bad Brains)
Slash (1/2 black)
Lenny Kravitz (1/2 black)
Vernon Reid (Living Colour)
Tom Morello (RATM - 1/2 black)
The few I can think of.
2007-10-07 22:35:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋