Like a lot of aspiring players, I grew up chasing my guitar heroes. I listened to everyone, but the ones who really stayed with me were the players who played fiery blues licks with melodic phrasing that made every note feel alive.
When I finally dug into who influenced them, everything pointed back to the same source: the British blues explosion of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Clapton, Page, Beck, Green, Kossoff and Hendrix (despite being American, Hendrix was so tied into the London scene that you can’t separate him from it).
