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Whether or not you like his musical taste, the fact is that he can play most genres or styles as well or better as anyone past or present.
Nothing personal as I think many guitarists have a similar way of thinking but I think not being interested in knowing who are the best instrumentalists that are are alive today is the kind of backward looking mentality that was referred to above and that seems to exist more in the guitar world than any other instruments.
Plenty of examples to be found.
@gringopig didn’t say he didn’t like him, he said he had no interest in knowing who he was which is quite different.
Ask a piano player who Lang Lang is and you can be sure they do even if they don’t necessarily see eye to eye with his style.
The line is very blurry for most well known electric guitarists but very distinct in classical music for example.
It’s near impossible to talk objectively about a musician as a composer or improviser, but it’s possible to be much more objective about playing ability especially on an instrument as technically demanding as electric guitar.
If someone can play almost anything from the established repertoire of their instrument perfectly, and with emotion and tone to boot, and very few others can match this ability, then they are objectively one of the greatest - this is what I claim about Guthrie.
I would venture to say the taste in instruments of someone like that is more significant than for a lot of pop / rock players which have much less demanding needs for their instrument pretty much by the definition of the style of music they play.
This was my angle in this and my reaction to some of the pics posted above.
I’m not trying to get into a discussion of musical tastes and of course you’re more than entitled not to like him @gringopig , I myself can not stand a lot of fairly technical and well admired players which I’ll be happy to name here if anyone is interested
I like that he is isn't in his own 'box', so I'm not putting him in one