They played traditional blues mixed with their own unique brand of rock & roll, and there was nothing but strength in that group. Later in life, in the early Nineties, I witnessed a wonderful moment, when the Shirelles were honored by the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. We waited all day for them to arrive. But over the years, her story changed, and her music reflected those changes beautifully. You know when I did "Shaft," with those 16th notes on the high-hat? We went through those first two albums, and there was that Asheton swing again, the way he rocked the chord grooves. The first time I heard real anger and aggressive sexuality expressed in guitar playing was on that Mayall record. All rights reserved. He demystified the whole thing for my generation: "Look, these are just instruments. It's one of the greatest rites of passage for any artist, and it's something that touches us most deeply. His job isn't just holding down the root notes he and the drummers, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, are moving all over the place. The Beatles covered five of Carl's songs on record. In Jane's Addiction, we were into a groove that was very repetitive, riff-oriented and hypnotic similar in a lot of ways to a song like "War Pigs," off of Paranoid (my favorite Sabbath album). He was the focus of everything. There is an illuminating love of living things all of them here on earth that lies within the tenderness of his line readings (listen to his song "Gaia," from Hourglass). I didn't become a big fan until 1989. Trent's music, built as it is on the history of industrial and mechanical sound experiments, contains a beauty that attracts and repels in equal measure: Nietzsche's "God is dead" to a nightclubbing beat. Iggy wanted the Stooges to be what he'd seen in Chicago as a young guy these old bluesmen playing so hard that, as Iggy once said, the music drips off you. With the votes counted, we can now bring you the top 10, but that's not quite end of it, as the top five keyboard players from each era will now face-off to vie for the honour of being included in our final GOAT line-up.