The father of the punk rock guitar, at the same time an important inspiration for riff-oriented modern metal, was an archetypal anti-hero.
John Cummings aka Johnny Ramone made a name for himself with a cheap Mosrite guitar on which he whipped out minimalist barré fingerings at a hellish pace. (The sawing sound was later aptly christened “Buzzsaw.”) Ramone almost never played a solo, limiting himself to rhythm work, but did so with the force of a speeding subway train. In a…
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