FEATURE: 5 fictional but awesome guitarists
Just because these guys aren’t real doesn’t mean they can’t rock real hard. Here’s my tribute to the 5 most awesome fictional guitarists ever.
1. Muno (Yo Gabba Gabba)
Muno was always destined to be the coolest inhabitant of Gabbaland (a distinction must be drawn between cool and funky, and of course DJ Lance Rock is off the chart on the funkometer). Muno’s mad guitar skillz came to the fore when new friend Jack Black paid a visit to Yo Gabba Gabba and spent some quality time rocking some sweet arpeggios with the red one-eyed shredder.
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Gumby was one of my first guitar heroes – I guess I could relate to him because I too played guitar, was besieged by Blockheads at every turn and would often escape inside books. By the way, anyone else think that Gumby’s guitar in this pic sort of resembles one of those awesome new Washburn HM series WMsCLICK HERE to buy Gumby – 7 Disc DVD Boxed Set w/Gumby figure.
3. Jem & the Holograms’ Aja Leith
Glamour and glitter, fashion and fame, Jem was truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. And her guitar playing sidekick and adopted foster sister, Aja Leith, slung a mean axe on this classic 80s cartoon series. Rumours that Aja went on to become The Great Kat are unsubstantiated. One thing’s for sure though: when it came to throwing down mad lixx in the face of the shred onslaught that was the Misfits (no, not that Misfits, although that’d be cool), nobody rocked like Aja.
It didn’t matter that he was the only Silverhawk who couldn’t fly. It didn’t matter that his cowboy hat was grossly inadequate as any kind of protection from the harshness of space. It didn’t even matter that he kinda looked like George W Bush remade into a cowby cyborg. What mattered was that Bluegrass of the Silverhawks could totally shred, and that he piloted the Maraj by plugging his guitar in to the console and steering via the awesome power of rock (and maybe a little country). If only Detroit would team up with Nashville and implement this new steering system (Gibson, are you and your Robot Guitar listening?), we might pull ourselves out of this financial maelstrom.
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Hi! I'm Peter Hodgson. I write for Gibson.com, Australian Guitar, Australian Musician, Mixdown Magazine (including my instructional column, 'Unleash Your Inner Rock God,' which has been running since 2007), guitarworld.com, Tone Deaf, Beat (including their weekly hard rock/metal column Crunch) and The Brag. And I'm Assistant Social Coordinator with Seymour Duncan.
I've been playing guitar since I was 8 years old, and I've been writing for magazines since I was 18. I've also worked as a guitar teacher (up to 50 students a week), a setup tech, a newspaper editor, and I've also dabbled in radio a little bit. I live in Melbourne, Australia, and my hobbies include drinking way too much coffee, and eating way too much Mexican food.
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What no Ralph Macchio? ;)
Ahahaha. I totally considered putting him or Jack Butler in there, but this one took on more of a TV kinda direction. I should probably follow it up with a ‘Silver Screen Shredders’ post or something.
Col. Bluegrass! Hell yeah silver hawks!
Yup, Gumby’s guitar looks like a Washburn HM series but with an Ibanez headstock to me.
Maybe Gumby assembles his guitars out of bits and pieces, EVH-style, leaving a trail of cannabalized guitars in his wake.