How the New York Times understands guitar solos
Summary: it's not so much about guitar solos as about the NYTimes' cultural political agenda
[A competitive “air guitarist”—yes, such things apparently exist—that is, someone pretending to play a guitar in a manner so ludicrous as to effectively serve as testimony to the fact that he has never, ever played a real guitar]
More than a year ago, there was a New York Times story on guitar solos that left me baffled and I intended to respond to it, b…