yes... and YOU Henry actually have chops and came from a time when wood-shedding to develop chops was a good thing.
As you know, VERY few people take the time any longer.
They want results NOW!
Joe and Jill Average are thinking,
"Make ME sound like Django RIGHT NOW!
I don't have time to study keyboards, but I need to record a track that sounds like Jimmy Smith RIGHT NOW!
Whip out the thing that makes me sound like them NOW.
I don't care about the details that make it unique and interesting.
I just want to fool musically un-educated people.
Plus, we ALL are only interested in the stuff that is happening NOW.
We won't compare it to stuff that happened in the past.
In fact, that stuff bums me out because it reminds me of where I really am as a "musician."
I don't acknowledge it."
Myself? I can play the F*CK out of a guitar (that skill and a quarter will barely buy you a cup of coffee) but...
I've played it since I was six or seven, so I'd be be somewhere with by now since I am turning 53 in a few weeks!
Still, I can't sing for jack.
I can punch, edit and auto-tune (I guess, never used it) and get an acceptable performance.
No matter how good my final result is I am not a singer.
The same goes for KYBDs.
I'm a track act, I guess!
I could dress up funny and sing to a CD.
The guitar could be live except for the speed metal solo which would have to be on the CD as well.
I can't play speed metal without punching in a lot.
...and you can BET that it'd be ART.
Oh yeah, it would!
Plus... I'll get HIGHLY offended if you don't acknowledge it as art and heap LOT'S of praise on it.
It'd really be cool if you bought some copies of it, too.