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One of the most underrated guitarists of the brand new wave period was Adam & the Ants/Bow Wow Wow member Matthew Ashman. Along with his Mohawk and rollicking rockabilly riffs (performed on a big Gretsch hollow-body acoustic guitar), Ashman very easily stood right out of the remaining pack. Given birth …

Bow Wow Wow were a quartet organized by U.K. supervisor Malcolm McLaren (most widely known because the mastermind behind the Sex Pistols) in the beginning of the ’80s. McLaren matched up the trio of music artists who got constituted Adam Ant’s Ants — Matthew Ashman (b. 1962, d. 1995) on …