[Ormond]

Freight - funny. but young people do come at the guitar from a different place these days. My nephew has only been playing a year. When I first saw him with the guitar I was amazed. He was just ripping all over the neck with blazing fast runs, arpeggios, sweeps, pinched harmonics - I mean in zero time he has practically mastered the Avenged Sevenfold catalog.
I was playing something and asked him to hit a couple of backing chords. I told him to play an E chord. He gave me a blank look and said he did not know how to do that. He said that he did not know anybody that play notes "up at the top of the guitar." He struggled to get his fingers to "bunch up" like that. It was like watching a 9 year take a second guitar lesson. He quickly tired of it and went back to shredding.
I cannot play the the things he was playing. He could not follow me if I were playing "Puff the Magic Dragon."
Young people are growing up learning approaches to guitar we did not. Their LEARNING is a product of the environment they grew up in..I would not expect Brent and Sol to sound the same at all.
This is a picture of a West Virginia boy playing a real "E" on my D28 - where he comes from those Cowboy chords are still in vogue.