Very good point, paladin. Your right that does influence a decision, but without an opinion and people expressing them. What fun would the forum be? :) It may be a question of what particular music you like, but I like metal. There's guitarists that are awesome, but I don't like there music. My point is you can have a guitarist who can play 16th notes are 300 bpm, but when it comes to putting a full composition together they struggle. The skills of playing guitar and the skills of composing music are different. One can learn to be a great guitarist by practicing other's music, but becoming good at composing is only done by composing your own original music. Each person will have varied skills in those areas, thus great guitarist but I don't like his/her music. Or the opposite, great songwritter but not the greatest guitarist.