AS YOU MIGHT’VE guessed, the issue of that you hold in your paws right now definitely does not represent the first time has revisited or GW ]. In that EVH-fronted issue, we pinpointed the Eighties’ 12 “Movers & Shakers,” as in, one six-string mover and/or shaker per year, plus four young players that the editors believed would make an impact in the Nineties. They actually did a good job in terms of their predictions, bearing in mind that they hadn’t yet heard of grunge (at least not in the context of music). And, oh yeah, they also chose the guitarist of the decade. Gee, I wonder who that was? Anyway, here’s what they came up with all those years ago:
