Re: [L-OT] Creative? was: guitar gods
2001-06-28 by David Eager
Dennis Gunn wrote: > At 3:27 AM -0400 6/28/01, GAmoore@... wrote: > > >I'm not sure if that is true or not. I think too much training and > >learning does limit one's creativity. > > I don't know. Could it be that it just looks that way because people > who have limited creativity tend to try to overtrain to make up for > it? > Not exactly, I think they are just two disparate talents. The creative mind and the acomplished technician. And I think that brings us back to the start point of this thread. The true 'guitar gods' are those whose technique and creativity both shone brilliantly enough to sway the course of popular music. Their genius was sufficient to bring avant garde concepts to the populus and have it accepted and admired. Through history the same definition applies, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Hendrix, Zappa, Eno.......... Dave Eager [btw, I have played with brilliant technicians who couldn't play into, and out of, a solo, becasue it's not something they could practice 5 hours a day. And brilliant improvisationalists who couldn't play 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ' straight]