[quote name='Prosebass' post='359850' date='Dec 20 2008, 08:22 PM']Would you apply this logic to everything in life ? if so we should all be driving round in new cars , living in new houses and playing new basses ?
In my book there is not better out there so why should I move on just because these guys are old / dead. I view them in the same way as I would Bach or Mendelssohn, both are dead but one I still enjoy listening to.[/quote]
I think if we take what ARGH is saying in context, we should develop and better our own ideas and techniques without looking to the past or becoming clones of what went before.
Individuality is very important, become all you can be...I tried very hard for a long while there to play like billy sheehan - hopeless it was! I now know who I am, what my sound, style and technique is, it is me! Not technically brilliant nor ground breaking, could get much better but developing me is more fun.
andy