Dave I know nothing about Chet Atkins or his stature other than that he is a highly respected vintage country guitarist of note. I heard an album in parts and turned it off because I didn't like his style of playing. That does not mean I am ignorant to his fanbase whether here or elsewhere. I just don't think he has that indelible DNA sound and that is my opinion. I am allowed to have an opinion whether you take the mick. I do not profess to be an expert in music or in the guitar, I just enjoy listening to what I enjoy
If I chose to limit my taste or horizons to be what catches my fancy, then I am surely one of the vast majority of music lovers in being selective. It's the selective types that determine whether someone is great or not. It isn't the opinion of experts here that sways me one way or another.
It's like saying I have a thing about red two seater cars that they are flash, sexy and have the image, but the fact is I don't and a car is a car to me and not an object of affection. Guitars are the same , they either give me a nice tone or they don't and that is regardless of whether it's Fender, Squire , or an Encore cricket bat. Musicians are the same, and Clapton is the most over rated guitarist and just about knows how to pull more faces than a comedian on viagra, but his music to me at least is soul less and lifeless. Hardly a candidate for greatness. Now Jeff Beck, I am looking forward to blowing everyone away on Jules Holland tomorrow night I think and repeated on Friday night
But it's good that some of you take music so seriously and enjoy it on a higher technical level, I am happy to flick through radio and TV channels for better enjoyment than follow up on old revered guitarists before my time. Am afraid the young ones will be worse than me in 10 years and say Chet who ? is that a 757 jumbo ?, and Hank will be same , someone who came from Nashville to Newcastle or was it Aussieland ? That is the legacy that young people will know, and the Beatles were those wax mopheads in funny suits in Madame Tussauds, but that is life as people grow up with Black eyed Peas, and strange bands who try to sell downloads to a fragmenting mass of musical tastes.
No need for posters to get uptight, it's harmless opinions and as always these will be from diverse people that makes the world go round and sometimes in crazy ways
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