The thing about MC as a guitarist is that he had the balls to rewrite the rulebook, and say standard tuning isn't working for me - neither is DADGAD.

You don't have to play the guitar like MC to use his tunings. he is not prescriptive as so many of the great guitarists are. You bring your own touch to these to these tunings.

You don't have to sing the songs he sings. You don't have to believe what he believes about folk music.

The tunings are a treasure chest waiting to be opened by any musician. As he says in the video, the system of chords was tie-ing up the songs, and his system is based on making the guitar serve the songs - rather than strait jacket them and make them follow the chord pattern.

Its a set of ideas that could be applied to any body of work.