I had this guitar teacher who was at the time like 26 and I was 20 so something like 4 years ago. He is good, damn good but for the the life of him he has to let everyone know it. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't in a "holier than thou" sort of way. For that reason there is no one in the known world that will play with him. He even got a gig with Twisted Sister's Dee Snyder's sons band in New York. He was being so forceful with his style (which by the demo tapes he showed me did not mesh with this guy's singing at all) he said the producers forced him to quit the band. Mostly by trying to tell him how to play. I think they said "the hell with this guy find us someone else." It probably ends up that way for most guitarists with egos bigger than thier skill. Hooray for irony!