Are you The Stones or The Who?

cosgig said
I don't think Frankie said Pete couldn't play guitar, but he is not the best guitar player by anyone's admission! Yea, he does a mean Petey Mill, but not the most accomplished guitarist out there!

Precisely.
Unfortunately for some people, things only appear to be black and white, On or off. With no middle ground. Townshed wasn't a bad guitarist, he just couldn't, and can't hand with rock's top guitarist.

For some interesting info, Keith Richards actually plays with only 5 strings on his guitar, and it is tuned like a 5 string banjo, a harkening back to his first insturments! That's why most people who try to emulate his style of playing find it so hard d to follow!

Richard is an odd ball, and always has been. His playing ability ( song to song) goes from excellent to mediocre. He does great on the R&B stuff, and on the Rock 'n Roll stuff, and kind of falls apart on the on the Rock stuff, unless he reverts back to what he's really good at.

Yes, I'm a professional musician, and am typing this from a gig right now! I play a little guitar, and most other insturments as well, so im a fair judge of guitar playing!!

Same here...
I was a professional Musician (made my living) for a number of years. Started playing Cello and Double Bass back in the late 50, and electric bass in the early 60's about the time the Beach Boys were first making the charts. Play some guitar, keyboards, even have a 5 piece set of Ludwigs, and a flute. Also doing a lot of collecting now.

Still playing today as much as possible, but retirement has afforded me the opportunity to do a lot more traveling, so no permanent gigs any more.