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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I fully disagree.
I rarely, if ever, hear a "great" young musician.
Most don't have a style or sound of their own and most can't play outside of their specific genre. That doesn't meet the "great" test, IMO.
If we break it down further, there is no EVH, Randy Rhodes, Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai or Warren DeMartini of the past decade. No player that has transcended the genre and taken guitar to new heights.
There is no Neil Peart, Keith Moon, John Bonham or even Matt Cameron in the past decade.
There hasn't been a bassist with the impact of Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Steve Harris, Billy Sheehan or John Entwhistle, let alone Jaco, Jeff Berlin or Stu Hamm.
And don't get me started on singers, Autotune and Melodyne.
It is just not the same.
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You seem to have a bias towards virtuoso musicianship and against stuff like hip-hop or electronic music.
Take, for instance, the guys in Agalloch (IMO the best band in America or any genre). None of them are virtuoso musicians but they play brilliant music. Should I be using a different phrase to describe these non-virtuoso players? Are there simply plenty of great "music players" as opposed to "musicians?" I don't know. What I do know is that there is a tremendous deal of excellent music out there these days, a lot of it being seventeen trillion times better than, say, Alter Bridge (a band I mention only because you vigorously defended them here once).