I was learning a song by the Gypsy Kings that the band I'm in wanted to cover and, as I was the only one with a nylon strung guitar,it fell to me to learn the solo parts. I was working by ear from a tape and took a few short-cuts (not to mention liberties) with the piece until I had something resembling what I was hearing on tape. Even so, I found it a hard number to perform live and needed to be sitting down and focused to attempt! One day a friend offered me a video tape of the Gypsy Kings live which included this particular track. I naturally bit his hand off and rushed to my machine to watch it in the hope of picking up some of the fingerings and neck positions. As I watched the ease with which the "difficult" solo was dropped in and marvelled at the economy of hand movement (which made hand reading all the more difficult) I noticed the lead guitarist was having a CHAT with one of the band WHILE HE PLAYED! I just found the whole thing too depressing to watch! Another player I remember wasting my time watching was the marvellous Isaac Guillory when he played a tiny gig up here on the North East coast. Despite sitting 6 feet from him I could only pick up bits and pieces of what he was doing and learned more from talking to him afterwards!