Quote Originally Posted by brent.h View Post
Haha I called Time On My Hands and Rose Room at a big jam once. No one knew the tunes but me. I was quite shocked haha. I learnt that actually, no one knows everything. No one knows all the chords and all the lines. No one can hear everything perfectly once and recreate it. No one knows every style/subgenre intimately and can play it convincingly.

I used to think that Pasquale Grasso was the pinnacle of guitar playing (in some sense he is, I mean, come on...) but he doesn't have much of the prewar blues or swing idiom down much and when he does it, I'm not super convinced.

Dani Rabin, another fusion shredder who is so ridiculously competent in multiple genres and music in general was criticised for having a bad la pompe technique/sound. I thought the guy had everything down, but to some, apparently not.

This is a not a knock on them because, really, who has time to specialise in everything? We love them for what they do very specifically. At the end of the day, we're all doing the best we can with what limited resources, time, bandwidth, inspiration etc we have.
Very important to remember this is the reality.

As opposed to guys here who swear they can do it all, but their recorder just broke, or the record label they just signed with banned them from posting clips… you know what I mean.