[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Chiefaholic

He may know music, but give a young kid props for working hard doing something that he loves to do. So what if he isn't the best person doing what he does. I wish the young fella nothing but luck and that he continues to improve as he gets older with more publicity. Being a kid at that age and meeting Ozzy face to face on Ellen will be a memory the kid takes to his grave. But, getting up on stage with his idol and playing in front of a packed house must have made the kid feel like he was on top of the world.

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Um, Gus was doing all the squeals and riffs. The kid did a decent rendition of the solo but it's certainly nothing you can't hear by going into any Guitar Center in Cali.

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Yeah, that's fine. But let's not proclaim him to be some sort of savant.

If you go to any GC in SoCal or to the NAMM show in Anaheim in any given year, you'll see the same thing ad nauseam.

It doesn't mean that those kids will become songwriters, producers or artists. It just means they have good coordination and IMO, something like this is far less impressive than the 10 year old that can play anything by Bach, Beethoven, etc.

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

That's cool. I'm not insulting you or anyone else. But the fact of the matter is that this is not very impressive, as far as childhood prodigies are concerned.

Was I in some way, unclear?

Originally Posted by Brock

Go google "child guitar prodigy". There's about a million of them. I'm vastly more impressed by kids who "shred" Bach and Beethoven on a classical acoustic.