Michael 'Atonal' Vick

Michael Vick can be credited along with Jeff Berg and others, for bringing the fretless guitar movement into the mainstream; he is the founder of the NYC International Fretless Guitar Festival.

"I feel with acoustic fretless guitar one can get the purity of tone and intonation that has been missing from most guitar literature, and on the flipside, the electric fretless guitar can project the artist and listener completely into outer space where no absolute rules apply. They both can present the player with more sonic possibilities ever imagined, and through this they are tied inherently to the past and the future in a sonic continuum."