{"id":76,"date":"2009-03-01T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2009\/03\/guitar-hero-riff-offs--you-get-to-vote.html"},"modified":"2009-03-01T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T19:39:00","slug":"guitar-hero-riff-offs-you-get-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/03\/guitar-hero-riff-offs-you-get-to-vote.html","title":{"rendered":"GUITAR HERO &#8216;RIFF OFFS&#8217;&#8211; YOU GET TO VOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often you get to compare great guitarists shredding the very same song, but here is one that may make you give up your guitar playing forever, or inspire it, one or the other.  <\/p>\n<p>What we have here is three great guitarists&#8211; Larry Carlton (Steely Dan, Foreplay, Joni Mitchell among many other venues), Lee Ritenour (Captain Fingers himself, also in Foreplay among other venues), and Steve Lukather (Toto of course). Lukather of course is strictly a rock guitarist, and it shows, where as the other two have done both jazz and rock and pop, and you name it.  The other interesting thing is that both Lukather and Carlton are Christians, and Lukather looks to Carlton as a mentor, not merely in guitar playing it would appear. You can vote for your favorite version of this Carlton classic&#8212; Room 335.  Enjoy BW3     <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often you get to compare great guitarists shredding the very same song, but here is one that may make you give up your guitar playing forever, or inspire it, one or the other. What we have here is three great guitarists&#8211; Larry Carlton (Steely Dan, Foreplay, Joni Mitchell among many other venues),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GUITAR HERO &#039;RIFF OFFS&#039;- YOU GET TO VOTE - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/03\/guitar-hero-riff-offs-you-get-to-vote.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GUITAR HERO &#039;RIFF OFFS&#039;- YOU GET TO VOTE - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is not often you get to compare great guitarists shredding the very same song, but here is one that may make you give up your guitar playing forever, or inspire it, one or the other. 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