Granted, I am a relative 'newbie' to the guitar, I have been listening and enjoying guitar music for most of my life. Heard a lot of it too going back to when the Beatles, Stones and Hendrix had 'debut' hits on the radio. The one thing that has always struck me is that so many people truly think and feel that speed is what sets apart a 'good' guitarist from a 'master' guitarist.

Although I am impressed as h*ll when I hear someone really rip through something at these light-bending speeds, to me, the greatest things I have ever heard coming from a guitar were usually something less than the warp speed that so many people talk about.

To me, articulation is as important if not more so than overall speed. It's what you say and not how fast you can say it.

I dunno. That's just the way it has always seemed to me. :)