Kaki King

guitar players that are good, and there are some guitar players that are really f*cking good,” Dave Grohl once said. “And then there’s Kaki King.” Since arriving on the guitar scene in 2002, King has carved out her own path as a visionary artist, not only with her virtuoso two-handed tapping and percussive use of the guitar’s body but also in her compositions and performances.’s Jude Gold in June 2003. “Instead of sending me off to piano lessons with all the other kids, he forced me to play guitar — and I hated it. I took a few lessons and quit.” King switched to drums, but her father kept the guitar, and she occasionally picked it up and strummed it. “Then, when Nirvana broke big, it seemed like every boy in my sixth-grade class started to play guitar. All of the sudden, it was cool to be playing, and I already knew way more than the boys did.”