![]() In fact, given his abilities and the heights to which he climbed with Mahogany Rush, it’s surprising how little Marino’s name seems to be in the guitar discussion these days. More than anything, I can’t believe these guys even know who I am!” With a lot of these guys I’m not always sure I hear it, but then again, I don’t listen to a lot of music. “Zakk in particular is a great guy and a great guitarist, and we even speak on occasion. “I’m told that a lot of guitarists have talked about my influence,” he says. These types of acknowledgements please Marino (there’s even a tribute album, Secondhand Smoke, with performances by George Lynch, Ronnie Montrose, Jennifer Batten and others), but he doesn’t spend much time thinking about them. Within the guitar community, he’s a god.” The way he can play bebop and jazz-type stuff with that much confidence…he’s not dicking around. And then you throw in the jazz element, and it’s just, wow. I love the way he plays blues-it’s like, as opposed to being a Ford Model T of the blues he’s a Formula One racecar. “It’s all there, and in staggering degrees. ![]() “Frank is just an amazing combination of feel, taste, musicality and technique,” Wylde tells Guitar World. Indeed, the Black Label Society and former Ozzy axman has gone to great lengths to champion Marino and espouse his greatness with Mahogany Rush. Then there’s Zakk Wylde-who, with his scorching, neck-wringing pentatonic runs and long flowing mane of hair, is perhaps the closest modern approximation of Marino in his prime. Serious players like Marty Friedman, Joe Bonamassa and Steve Vai have all sung his praises, and when Marino came out of a self-imposed musical exile in the early 2000s, one of the first artists to invite him on tour was former Scorpions shredder Uli Jon Roth. ![]() Which is not to say that plenty of other people-some of them now guitar gods themselves-see things differently. ![]() “I used to tell people, ‘You can either be a guitar god or you can be a musician.’ And I always thought of myself as a musician who happened to play guitar.” ![]()
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