Duane Eddy is seen as the progenitor of everything raw, dirty and dangerous in rock guitar, be it heavy metal, punk, or garage rock. Eddy was the original guitar hero, and in the '50s his instrumentals took the six-string to new places. Louder, bolder and more distorted than the axe had ever been before, in Eddy's hands it became bigger than life, as heard on game-changing hits like the stomping, reverb-drenched "Rebel Rouser" and the deep-down twanger "Forty Miles of Bad Road". His appeal was so enduring that his 1986 version of "Peter Gunn" with The Art of Noise made him a hitmaker all over again.