1.   And guitar god Jeff Beck has plenty of time on his hands to reminisce about the time he met Jimmy Hendrix.

2.   Clapton is still a guitar god, but he seems to have forgotten that the blues is more than a series of chord progressions.

3.   Eddie Van Halen may be a guitar god, but his joints ache like those of common mortals.

4.   In a Boston appearance Thursday night he delivered a musically exquisite set even if it lacked the dynamism that blues-rock zealots have come to expect of their guitar gods.

5.   Nine years ago, right after his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, guitar god Jeff Beck was asked about his future.

6.   Cray has long since ascended to an honored spot in the pantheon of guitar gods.

7.   Having cast off his Deep Purple and Rainbow baggage, guitar god Ritchie Blackmore has presumably freed himself from commercial pressures to indulge in an artsy project.