@jacod and parimari, yes I understand that. In reality musicians get inspirations from each others work as a part of evolution. Well in the 80's a member of the Beegees who used to sing love songs and disco tunes has a song inspired by new wave/dance its caled "boys do fall in love". My main point here is that some guitarist claim to be a guitar God because they know a lot of songs. where is the glory in copying??, well copying (covering songs in general) in my opinion is imitation and also a form of expression. a lot of revivals has a personal touch in it. .. and also listening to others music widens ones horizon musically. that is why music is evoloving constantly, as well as guitar playing.
thinking about the future of guitars is quite exciting, a lot of people will definitely come up with great tunes...I just dont know who in this decade can be the next Jimi hendrix, but a lot of good guitarist was inspired and thanks to him.
Elvis Presley for example, do cover a lot of songs in his entire career. But as a guitarist, Able to emulate slash guitar solo is something, but able to make your own guitar solo is monumental.
musician as defined "One who composes, conducts, or performs music, especially instrumental music" in short there is totality. If a band only sings cover songs its just a showband, but if it writes their own material for me they are real thing, most importantly a great guitarist can write the most beautiful guitar riffs with his guitar...thats why I salute the greatest guitarists of all time, jimi hendrix, george harrison, eric clapton, bb king...and the others because they wrote all those good stuffs and has helped shape the music and guitar today
if guitarist all around th eworld had not wrote at all, by now i think we are all plyaing ukeleles playing the same tunes
