Pure, this must be, it has to be.
Pure, let's make this pure,
(Do you mean it?) Yes I do,
(Then let's sing it) Certainly, but
First bare your hearts and cleanse your souls
(And then?) Let's try and make this precious, like this.
Let's make this precious.
We're striving over here
(Ever nearer?) I think so
(Visions clearer) of course, of course.
But still we must forsake all to win
(All temptation?) everything (for salvation?) now you're talking
Then let this apply to all we do
(And then?) Our striving will guide us
And somehow I think that we'll win.
Let's make this precious,
First let's hear somebody sing me a record
That cries pure and true.
No not those guitars. They're too noisy and crude.The kind that convinces refuses to leave,
There's no need to turn it up.
If it's pure I'll feel it from here
Let's make this precious, (I think we probably will)
Let's make this precious, (I think we probably will) 

Mick Jagger  solo album::  Wandering Spirit
(imo his only good solo album)

Who's Husker Du ??
I must have lead a sheltered life !?

Just Watching Zane Lowe's guitar legends on TMF and he's down to  No 22 with Purple Rain by Prince. What a performance, I still remember the first time I saw tis on Top of the Pops thinking 'Wow' and immediately bought the album.

Can't remember what year it was now but it bought back some memories.

Nelson

Yes, Husker Du did write 'Diane' on one of their early releases.  Not my favourite track as they'd yet to really find their style, although it's interesting nonetheless.  I'll have to find the Therapy? version.

Nelson - agreed re. Satch et al. It's too self-indulgent. SRV has the passion, doesn't he?

And about my earlier list - I somehow missed off Husker Du.  However, I imagine few other readers here will notice such an omission

@ Markovich;  the Pogues are indeed very listenable, especially the Rum, Sodomy & the Lash album.  I was a big Clash fan in my younger days, and when the late Joe Strummer briefly joined the Pogues it was powerful stuff, live. 

@ Schaakhamster; Surfer Rosa by the Pixies is simply an immense album; thankyou for reminding me of this one, I'll dig it out and play it again when I get home..... (nice sleeve, too )
Without the Pixies I suppose we'd never have had quite the same thing that was Nirvana. 

As for those other guitarists, DiMeola et al, great in their own right but hard to make comparisons between them and the blues-rock genre on the whole. Amazing technique, but then so have Vai, Satriani, Buckethead, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen and other such players.....but I think they stray from the original subject of the thread a little.  They're very good at what they do (I love that Santana album with McLaughlin on it, Welcome) but I'm not sure they are really 'rock' music, whatever that may now be.  

Honourable mentions for Thin White Rope, The Replacements, Meat Puppets, Weezer, Green Day, the Ramones and even the Sex Pistols at this point.  Oh, and Vernon Reid (of Living Colour), plus I'd like to remember Coltrane for A Love Supreme.  And Zappa for Black Napkins. Robert Johnson. Lightnin Hopkins. There are too many more....

I mentioned them before, and I'm a little surprised that no one picked up on it: the Pogues.  I noticed that the creators of The Wire share my love of them.  Maybe admiration for the Pogues depends on having an appreciation of Celtic music in general, I don't know.