It gets back to the question of is it better to be creatively brilliant or technically brilliant?
It's true! The art of composing hookline riffs died with Nirvana. Or maybe it's as Billy Corgan said: "All goof riffs have already been written. Whenever you think you have come up with something great, you then find it on Made in Japan or something ...".
Technical limits often help forge a style. If you're good at anything, you tend to do everything and why shouldn't you? If you have limits you work at and deepen what you are best at.
Technical limits often help forge a style. If you're good at anything, you tend to do everything and why shouldn't you? If you have limits you work at and deepen what you are best at.The best bands tend to be those who have a virtuoso (or two) musician AND somoeone creative (or two) in them. Too many virtuosos think they are also gifted songwriters when they are not, but most excellent songwriters are selfdeprecating about their instrumental craft, even those who are quite good like Paul McCartney.