I think my affinity with or indifference to a lot of music that is theoretically in my wheelhouse depends on the lead guitarist being compellingly melodic. Jerry Garcia is obv the king, but someone like BOC's Donald Roeser also stands very tall among guitar storytellers. My Phish "meh" is mostly about this element.
@4CPcomics this is why a guy like Mick Taylor has fully won me over and I haven’t revisited Clapton nearly as much as 17-year-old me would have thought