klrbee03

No. I have never played enough to get as good as my favorite players. In a lot of cases, I hear a guy early in their career and they're no great shakes, but over time they play so much that they build better technique, style and skill that I could never match. If I had been playing as a profession for years and years, then maybe. I thought I was pretty good when I was 20, but with 20 years of practice I'm better now. I figure how good would I have gotten if it were my job for all that time. Take Kirk Hammett for example, his solo work on "Kill 'Em All" was pretty much derivative pentatonic stuff just sped up really fast. I can play that stuff, maybe not as fast cause my 40 year old fingers just don't move like that anymore. But if you listen to his stuff on MOP, its much more articulate and composed (whether you like it or not) and his playing live is spot on. Practice, practice, practice. But I'm better than Steven Segal.