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Ed Pawlowski

On 4/23/2016 5:11 PM, wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:07:08 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-04-23 10:08:29 +0000, said:
>>
>>> Prince could have been a great rock guitarist.
>>
>> He *could* have been a great rock guitarist when he was 13. So in his
>> early 30's, he was a great rock guitarist.
>
> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>

You have too think of the acoustic and electrics as different
instruments, despite the common name. Some people play both well, but a
few really excel on one version or the other. I'd not think of the
electric as easier aside from the fact it can make louder volume easier
through an amp.

Segovia would not play the music of the modern electric guitarist anyway
so you cannot compare them head on. I find this interesting:

His teaching style is a source of controversy among some of his former
students, who considered it to be dogmatically authoritarian.[40] One of
Segovia's most celebrated former students of the classical guitar, John
Williams, has said that Segovia bullied students into playing only his
style, stifling the development of their own styles.[41][42] Williams
has also said that Segovia was dismissive of music that did not have
what Segovia considered the right classical origins, such as South
American music with popular roots.[41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Segovia