BMU wrote:
And my thought was "why the *%&#$# would a talented presumably intelligent individual such as yourself WANT to spend that intense effort to sound EXACTLY like someone else."
We've all got our influences. I don't think there's one player out there these days who is 100% original, they've all been inspired by some other player or players, will have spent some time early on figuring out things they heard on the radio or on albums. There might be some guy in Borneo who some how picked up a guitar, figured out it was an instrument, is otherwise completely cut off from civilisation and has managed to figure out some music that is unlike anything else ever played on the guitar - but even then he'll have taken influences from tunes that he knows from somewhere.
Once upon a time, of course, it was possible to make music that was completely unlike anything ever heard before, but those days are gone. In the pre-Christian era the Greeks were already talking about modes, and those modes corresponded to the predominant tonal scheme used in different areas of Greece and Asia.
Moore does more than imitate Peter Green. If you know both guys' playing then you'll know that Moore, unless he is deliberately paying homage, does not simply ape Green's style.
