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Flashback Friday?: Crash Kings

No guitars here. LA trio, Crash Kings, could be the next big thing on the rock scene.

Rock music without guitars. It’s like saying, “I want a cheeseburger, but hold the meat.”

“Give me a gin and tonic, but just the tonic please.”

“I said NO cheese on my pizza.”

It’s hard to argue with the facts. For more than half a century, rock music has depended on, evolved with and fed off of one constant: the electric guitar. The guitar is a symbol, and the rock guitarist the propelling force. After all, where would music be without a Brian May solo or images of Hendrix writhing on the floor in eternal bliss, guitar in hands?

What would AC/DC be without Angus? Guns N’ Roses without Slash? Led without Jimmy Page?

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