Ever see this 11-year old kid play the Blues?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5HSHLQaOg&feature=related

[MrScorpio]

1. Before you know it, he'll be mainlining heroin by the eighth grade. n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Technique without soul or feeling.

....I remember thinking the same thing about Jonny (Johnny?) Lang
when I saw that "blues(ahem)man" front a blues power trio in a
live show broadcast from HAHAHAHAHA Disney World (the REAL
crossroads of all blues in America -- rumor has it that the song
was originally titled, "The Devil Came Down to Orlando").
.
....His sidemen had to be forty- or fifty-something and you could
read their minds as they played. GLAD for what was almost certainly
a great-paying gig BUT......... "that no-dues-payin punk centerstage
is what I've been reduced to jamming BEHIND".
.
....I've seen classical prodigies who WERE extremely impressive at 6,
8, 10 years of age, but never, ever a blues "prodigy" that was
anything more than a novelty act, like Marjoe Gortner as a child
tent-revival preacher.
.
....Long, long ago, our lead guitarist (who was by FAR the most
musically gifted of any of us) described Yngwe Malmstein as "someone
who spent WAY too many hours of his adolescence sitting in his bedroom
practicing scales".