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Emergingfrom theviolentstreetsofManchesterduringthe‘real’ punkrockwarsandrolingintopostpunk,deathrock,hardrockand back.Hehasplayedwiththebest,Morissey,Jagger,Iggyetal,this kidhasdonemorethanmostcouldeverdream.Heispeerless,a tyrannicalperfectionistandiconoclast.Inaworldofselfimposed savantsandvirtuosos,hehasneverbeenaselfpromoterleaving thatforhisliveperformancesandstudiorecordings.
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Aworkingclassherowhohasownedthebiggeststagesintheworld anddeliveredwithoutmercy.Asrockdissolvesintoapatchworkof raggedstylesandfadingicons,Dufyholdshimselfwithanintegrity, sensitivityandferocitythatfewcanmatch.Heisoneofthegreatest livingguitarheroesofthe20/21stcentury,oftenmimicked,never matched.Ihavewitnessedotherplayerstakeastepbackwhenhe strapsontheFalcon,bigboys’rules.
s m elodies and rif fs have influenced a generation of players. Everythinghehasearnedhasbeenhardfought.Ihavewatchedhim thrashhisinstrumentuntilthebloodsplateredthevirginwhiteof his beloved Gretsch Falcon,Ihave witnessed him throw his instrum ent in the air in a gesture of self-satisfaction after the performance he had justthrown down in frontofa sweating, exhaustedcrowdonlytoseehercrashonhertailanduprightherself
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TheCulthaveandshalalwaysremainoutside.Whileweliveina culturethatcelebratesthe‘torturedartists’whomartyrthemselves anddon’thavewhatittakestosurvive,werarelypaytributetothose whoactualymakeittotheothersideandsurpassthefleetingyears ofselfdestructiveyouth.Dufyisamongstthathandfulwhostil havethepissandvinegartoripitup.”
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