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Originally Posted by blastingas10
Nicely said.
I guess what I was trying to say is, just because somone is more technical doesn't make them the better overall musician. Joe Satriani is certainly more technical than Jimi Hendrix, but i don't think he is better than Hendrix. There's more to music than just technical ability. Music is an art, and creative ability is important to any art. Were some of Picasso's paintings the most technically and conventionally good? No. But there was something abstract and creative about his work that went beyond conventions. Some people would look at his art and a lot of other art, and say "what is this crap?" They are the people who lack imagination and fail to see beyond the conventional side of things.
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Pablo Picasso may not be the best comparison though because he actually was extremely skilled on a technical level. He's more the model of the highly creative artist whose skill level allowed him to express himself in a wide variety of ways. A better comparison might be Howard Finster, a self-taught painter of limited technical ability who nevertheless created some cool and distinctive artwork in his lifetime. Most people on MB would probably know him as the guy who painted the album cover for Talking Heads'
Little Creatures.