Rocky4 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 When I think of my favorite guitar players, only one, Clapton, wears glasses. Does 20-20 vision make a better guitar player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slashadler Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Joe Satriani (sunglasses), lol. Tony Iommi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Listen to anything by Jeff Healey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverbursted Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Does 20-20 vision make a better guitar player? Yes, that and a painted pick guard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 How far can we sink? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 How far can we sink? Much further my friend, much further.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Much further my friend' date=' much further....[/quote'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 How far can we sink? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Billy Gibbons wears Prescription Shades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I think most of them who do need to wear glasses are too vain to wear them in public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 My guess is, since they invented contact lenses, we'll never know.... ... but if you don't stop it, you'll go blind.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I have 20/15 vision with my contacts and I'm not as good as Clapton (yet ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I have 20/15 vision with my contacts and I'm not as good as Clapton (yet ) There ya go, Q.E.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I'm legally blind. And I suck. Guess that explains everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I'm legally blind. And I suck. Guess that explains everything. Quit fishing for compliments... it is unbecoming in one so skilled in axery... axeation.... axe-mongering.... whatever... you know what I mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 When I think of my favorite guitar players' date=' only one, Clapton, wears glasses. Does 20-20 vision make a better guitar player?[/quote'] Hmmmm.................. It may sound a bit of a silly question but there's maybe more to it than we first suspect. Firstly, Clapton only started wearing glasses comparatively recently. Obviously the older one gets, and the less flexible the eye's lens becomes, the greater the odds are that at some time one will need man-made help to maintain clarity/sharpness of vision. As both Grampa and Chanman have pointed out : vanity and the free availability of contact lenses mean that nowadays few people who wish to avoid wearing glasses have not the alternative option. BUT; even forty or fifty years ago the number of bespectacled frontmen, whether as singer, guitarist or whatever, in popular music was not, I believe, proportionate to those wearing glasses in the rest of society. There were a few, of course; Buddy Holly, Hank Marvin, John Lennon spring to mind as some obvious examples but after those it gets harder for me to bring many to mind. Classical and jazz circles seem to be different; indeed a lot of jazzers wore/wear glasses. Perhaps they are less concerned about the visual image they project? Perhaps it's even considered cool to wear glasses? The wearing of glasses can sometimes be perceived to give out an impression of professorial intellect. Is it all about Ego? Were kids who wore glasses from an early age picked on at school and, as a result, less likely to become extrovert - something desirable if not essential in a front-man - in their adult lives? I think you asked an interesting question, Rocky4. It's certainly made me, for one, think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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