I didn't asy anything about classical guitar being uncool, I wasn't even aware of it until my uncle hipped me to it. He lived in NY and I was living in the South so I almost never saw him.

So I spent a lot of time not being interfered with. Pop music was fun and anything by someone over 21 was suspect, never mind Mozart. My dad and sister sang that stuff that made me run out of the house but Stravinsky's Firebird blew me away. Cool had something to do with opera but not with orchestral music. Orchestral music is a must for a guitarist. Jimmy Page and Berlioz kinds or orchestration.

I keep refering to the last post but I'm 50 and I get set off on a tangent. This thing of cool is very important. Anyone can play fast licks with the correct accoutrements but can they play three highly philosophical notes that make all the disinterested turn around and take notice?

Where does this skill come from, this musical philosophical thing? I know and I said it in my earlier blab, reaching for something that isn't yoou at the time.