Very true.

Although I'm partial to Django Reinhart, Carlos Santana and BB King(I like their tone, phrasing and scale choices), Gilmore does the job right and stays in context to the song he is playing with. A great guitarist to study.

I also like J. Satriani, J. Beck and S. Vai but they are playing a different type of music where the guitar is more of a vocal instrument and the virtuosity they bring to the table is unique and adds to their compositonal efforts.

I've noticed that a lot of the young metal lead players get in trouble by trying to do to much in too short a time frame(lets face it, some of those metal bands are really playing at extreme tempos) which forces the players into committing well executed scale runs instead of creating music. Which is why I liked today's lead player; he created a pleasant musical phrase instead of running a scale.