People with no gigs talk a lot of shit sometimes. Sammy has done thousands of shows. Press a guy like that with a guitar and you might get your ass handed to you. Not every player rips all their licks every night and you never know what tricks someone has up their sleeves. I once went to a tryout where an older guy with a squier strat and a hot rod cleaned my clock. "no serious player would use a squier". Yeah, sure.