I think I was lucky in this.

Everyone, myself included , was crazy about the Shadows at the time. My Dad (and aged 11 - you listen to your Dad) said - these guys are okay. But they're nowt compared to fimger style guitarists. The play everything - the lead. the rhythm and the bass.

I said Wow! Who does that? And dad said - Segovia does and theres this black American called Josh White. So I listened out for these guys. And waited my chance and became a finger style guitarist.

However i soon learned that people like Lightnin Hopkins and Robert
Johnson never played four beats in a bar in their life. Neither could they achieve the fluidity of Tal Farlow, the percussive sublety of Django, travel to the surreal soundcscpe continents of Jimi hendrix.

Every one of these guys put their lives on the line and said, this is what my life is going to be about. Nothing else. Your idea that you will do everything shows that you have no idea, what it costs in personal terms to be a man like Bruce Murdoch, a man who put nerve sinew and imagination into doing just one of these things with excellence - your comments are an affront to him. You need to apologise.

You can't have it all. The subleties can't be written down. they've got to be listened for, strived for and experienced. And their use redefined by your own oevre of work.