jarndice wrote:Gary Moore one of musics more unlikely Genius Axemen, But the style that he was playing in took me straight to Django Reinhardt who favoured a modified "Selma" guitar,
It was modified because when he was on the road gigging prewar Django (Jean) being Romani he and his wife would stay in a towed caravan and one night the van caught fire and he was seriously burnt nearly losing his leg and losing the movement in two fingers of his left hand.
Later meeting up with the Jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli they would alter the upto then interpretation of "Modern" Jazz.
Some call his style an acquired taste but all I know is it was magical to watch his dexterity and unless you knew of his disability you would never be aware of it in his fingering.
Yes, Shaun, I was once a big fan of Django. He, of course, used special tunings to assist his unique- and necessary- two-finger technique. (No jokes please!).
I also liked Eddie Lang from the same period- but, (and as a guitarist, I've studied loads of individual styles)- I'd never seen anyone quite as frenetic as the Balinese guy in the video
. That said, I once saw someone busking on Denmark St., in London, playing what looked like an upright 8- string 'stick' bass. He also played bass, rhythm and solo parts simultaneously, and even had time to tap in a rhythm as well. I swear he had eight arms, like a Hindu deity.
The guitar looked a lot like this. More like a dulcimer, in fact):
The performer didn't look like this one, however, or the crowd forming there might have been larger...
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
- the second guitarist here (0.55 seconds in) does a jazzy take on 'Route 66' that would normally require lead, rhythm, and bass jazz guitarists. If not that, then six hands and three brains. 
