"Don't Figure as Heavily Into Chart-Topping Music as They Once Did"

"'Rock is almost dead,' he said. 'It's almost nonexistent. And with guitar there's no almost one to look up to anymore–no one to get you to want to learn. I have three or four guitar students who are about 12 to 14 years old, and I told one of them she should find someone in her class to play guitar with. She said, "No one else plays the guitar, and people think I'm weird because I do."'"

Kevin Smith at the Los Angeles Daily News reports on the decline of the electric guitar.