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Originally Posted by DownOnRodeo
I don't think that Lindsey would ever let himself be compared to someone with chops like Tommy Emmanuel has. I think that Lindsey's himself said that he does prety cool stuff but its fairly limited. Tommy is one of those players that can do anything and everything.
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Yeah I agree, I think LB is far too humble of his abilities to be compared to these guys... Tommy Emmanuel is an extrodinary guitarist, very technically proficient and also very inventive.
I have to say from an emotional level Lindsey rates higher with me. I totally agree with LB about sometimes being technically gifted and trained in the arts can restrict what an artist believes they can do... If you are schooled to a certain degree and told what you can do and can't, or shouldn't do in an art then you will never be free to craft your own style. Mark Knopfler, another self schooled and by his own admission "mongrel style" fingerpicker is the same as LB in his beliefs. Nothing wrong with learning but don't stick rigidly to it.
I recall MK saying a lot of the technically gifted and trained guitarists he has played with don't know when to be quiet during a song. To give a song the room to breath and not over complicate it. You play into the song not all over it..
