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on January 23, 2007 at 08:37:53 ArdRi wrote:

>>Yah,right.That's why thousands of people followed Larry Carlton around the Country for years and at one point he was the highest grossing touring performer in the world.Saying Jerry was "just a noodler" is like saying Earth is just a rock.To isolate Jerry' from the whole result of his input misses the greatness of which he was a part and without him never would have been.Maybe because of his imperfections he was that much more accessible to us imperfect,flawed human beings.<<


While that may all be true, *not* isolating Jerry from "the whole result of his input" only describes why he was a cultural phenomenon. If you want to compare apples to apples and judge his guitaristic abilities rather than his cultural phenomena, you have to take his playing at face value, out of context of the juggernaut that was the Dead, and see if it stands on its own merits without the influence of extra-musical criteria.


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