What a great band they were...but when I listen now, it does sound a bit, well, dated or something....I can understand his comments on Hold The Line after 30 years of playing it...but they were very original I always thought.
I love his guitar playing, and Mark's correct, that's a good holiday cd, some good tunes on there.
I'll have to listen to some samples of his new stuff, and maybe drag out my copy of him and Larry Carlton's shred fest, Live at Osaka...

He does have one seriously impressive discography...I never knew Helen Reddy used a rock guitarist

I wish you guys could have seen him.... he is so phenomenal. I would kill to see him with Larry Carlton....

Just this dinosaur's opinion..... he comes from the day when one had to write and play your own material. Yes, there are major supergroups who come into our focus.... but with very few exceptions, I think the production is over-processed and slick. I miss the days of bands being responsible for their material - rather than a hit making writer.

I'm with ya, Kat.
Even some of the "dated" material has a depth and flare that's lacking in a lot of today's music.
Oh, and since you mention Larry Carlton, lately, I've been hooked on either listening to or humming one of his best solos ever:
King Cobra w/Tom Scott & The L.A. Express

Kat, I'm with you there- maybe it happened more than I think in the "good ol days", but I'd feel lied to if bands like the Who, Led Zep, Rush, Allman Bros,etc, just took a catalog of songs and picked which ones they wanted to do, rather than wrestling through the creative process together to create those landmark tunes.
Yeah, I know, lots of blues covers, and some accusations of tune theft, but for the most part the records were pretty much what the bands sounded like live, and I prefer that.
At least there was the assumption that they "owned" the song rather than just performed it.

TY