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Spyder more or less alluded to my view.
Gil Shaham is a virtuoso, Yehudi Menuhin was a virtuoso. We're all folk musicians, including the famous ones. Some are damn good at it, but it isn't the same. I don't say this to diminish all the other forms of music at all. Every form of music has it's merits and strong points. There's a reason so many people like country and blues and rock, it reaches people and touchs them.
For almost ten years I've been listening to classical music almost to the exception of anything else. I never used to want to admit it but it's whole different thing. I still like to get on stage and play my ass off with my electric guitar but there's a whole different level of things going on in the compostions by the classical masters. Not necessarily better, but it's another level of demands that are required. I don't listen to it for the virtuosity as much as the depth of complexity and a different range of emotional stimulation.
That's not to say every piece of classical music is a masterpiece, however. Some of it grabs you, some doesn't.
Entirely my subjective opinion. YMMV, etc..
BTW, Jim Vaughan and Dickie Betts are still some of my favorites.
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