There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

