Who's your guitar daddy now?

I've seen EC absolutely tear it up, but I've also seen him phone it in. Sometimes on the same night.

Marty

Top flight musicians are like professional athletes in that on any given night they'll be good, real good. But on some special nights they'll be utterly fantastic. Tiger Woods doesn't win ever round of golf, Kobe doesn't score 81 every night and Clapton isn't God-like at every show. It's just the way it is.

Onhwy61,

You are right, BUT, Kobe has to face other people trying to stop him who are also good every game.

Musicians do not have others being paid also to impede what they do. Its mostly up to them.

The golf analogy might be a little better one. But even there, if Tiger doesn't have a good day, someone else does. Those who pay to watch still get their money's worth. If I drop a couple hundred to see Clapton or any other musician for that matter perform, I expect them to deliver. Otherwise, lower the price.

My best guitar daddy experience live recently was seeing Dick Dale live in a very intimate venue and being right up front.

Despite his age qualifying as a guitar great grandaddy even, he was energized, spontaneous and seemed geneuinely happy to be there, even staying to chat with fans afterwards while sitting on stage. Needless to say , he smoked throughout the night on guitar, even breaking out into other genres besides his trademark "surf guitar" style. The best guitar concert ever for me. Worth 10X the $18 cost of admission.