Mahavishnu Huntington Majors

A rock original and enfant terrible, guitarist extraordinaire Mahavishnu Huntington Majors has defined a genre of hard-driving, power electric guitar playing all his own. His unique style, gritty yet melodic, edgy yet magical, light on top yet heavy at the bottom, with its remarkable mixtures of blues, rock, classical, jazz and Indian influences has single-handedly defined an entire genre of electric guitar virtuosity.Majors plays like his life depends on it, and he thrives on the...
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A rock original and enfant terrible, guitarist extraordinaire Mahavishnu Huntington Majors has defined a genre of hard-driving, power electric guitar playing all his own. His unique style, gritty yet melodic, edgy yet magical, light on top yet heavy at the bottom, with its remarkable mixtures of blues, rock, classical, jazz and Indian influences has single-handedly defined an entire genre of electric guitar virtuosity.Majors plays like his life depends on it, and he thrives on the loud, melodic, speed-demon electric guitar solo that has made him famous as one of guitardom's most acclaimed electric shredders. But if he's a shredder, Majors is one who can mix bolt-action rock runs with faster-than-the-eye transitions to classical counterpoint technique and end with a dive-bomb that sinks through the floor like superdense matter trapped in a cyclotron of thunderous black noise.Mahavishnu Huntington Majors himself is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. While his careen through the labyrinthine whorls of rockdom has landed him up on stages from the Garden to Budokan and his riffsmanship has featured on many a number in collaboration with artists ranging from hip hop to heavy metal, Majors seems to deliberately have shied from courting publicity. Nevertheless his artistic brilliance as a guitarist and his rare gifts as a songwriter, lyricist and vocalist have cast a long shadow of influence across the surrealistic landscape of rock, as well as the rocky landscape of the surreal. In this volume are collected the manifold folderol and scrimshaw that are the stone tablets inscribed with the words of hallowed unorthodoxy, intermingled with plenty of flocculent and squashy icons and tropes of Mahavishnu Huntington Majors taken at various stages of his extrauterine pupation, nubile passeos and grizzly harlequinade upon the unfocused strutways and swaggerwalks of music, as well as a broad and roomy selection of the uncensored lyrics to such hit singles as (Be My) Elektrick Spy, Into the Mouths of Babes and Under the Sign of Hendrix. Needless to say, Mahavishnu Huntington Majors is a book that should be in every true rock aficionado's cherished collection of greatest hits.