Each his own Chas. I marvel at the Yamaha clinicians who use their talents when playing an arranger. I think most audiences would stay till the end of their shows. On the other hand, I passed (2) guitarists playing on a corner the other day and wanted to gag (and gave me a desire to play again). They were doing classic rock but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket and were awful vocalists to boot. So, give me talent and it doesn't matter what they're playing with.
Okay, given that some guy playing guitar on a street corner may not be the best example of talent, and that the audiences that YOU are familiar with would stay to the end of an arranger clinic, and that talent trumps all (which I DO agree with), I would still rather hear a super talented person playing solo guitar or solo piano than an arranger. I suspect most musicians would feel the same. Gawd, at what point did we sell our souls?
chas
PS: Diki, great to see you 'alive and kicking'. Hope you'll start to post more. A lot of us really enjoyed some of your reasoned dissertations. I have yet to hear you agree OR disagree with someone without a reasonable, logical, well thought out, argument to back it up. It would be nice to have a little intellectual stimulation here beyond 'who's gigging on New Years Eve?' (or 'OMB or DJ?
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