Techical nous or individualism whats better

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 Tapfret wrote:

Nothing pisses my off more than the "technical ability=masturbation" argument. The argument is analogous to saying your favorite doctors are general practitioners and surgeons are medical masturbators. It is paradoxically self indulgent to accuse an artist/performer of having no feeling because you don't feel it. That all things mean the same thing to all people is rife with an absurd level of arrogance. Nobody but the artist is privy to his/her motivation. Prog/fans community in  particular should be cautious of this attitude considering that opinion is one of the basic tenets of the general disregard for the genre.

Indeed, and further this is the kind of viewpoint that would resonate more with punk.  So it's very strange that a lot of prog rock listeners seem to take this position. It would only seem to suggest they underestimate the importance of technical skills, as if these were something you could readily buy off the shelf in a supermarket.