Robert Palmer was a jazz, soul, blues guy bro. And the best dressed and probably coolest mother fucker on the planet at that time.
I'll admit to liking Hungry Like The Wolf, The Reflex, Rio and the James Bond song they did. So I wouldn't say they suck, but I would never go to one of their shows or buy one of their albums. I did pick out the bass to Rio a few times over the years just because John Taylor is a complete bad ass.McDonald's has sold more McRibs than Black's BBQ but McDonald's sucks ass. Popularity doesn't factor into whether I hold an artist in esteem but I used to get the same "Vanilla Ice gets laid more than you" shit in middle school when I was listening to Maiden and Hendrix.
He did some free online video lessons for awhile. I watched several of them. He's fantastic.I've told the story a few times over the years here so I won't repeat the deets, but I got to spend half an hour with the boys back in the mid '80s.
Andy loaded up on Vodka whilst everyone just chilled in the locker / dressing room.
They were all cool dudes and I sensed no ego issues, which IMHO was kinda-remarkable at the time given the extent of the female following.
On John Taylor:
Planet Earth was the first baseline I learned and I told him that. Doubt he was impressed 'though.
People who say blues is boring are either guitarists who suck at playing blues or just people who failed to do a deep dive into the genre. There have always been quality artists but starting in the 2000's the amount of ancient hippies boring people at local bars with low energy stuff would lead most people to believe it was boring, because that kind of blues is. The other explosion was of the throwback relics...the fedora wearing, wingtip loving, bowling shirt donning cheesy white dudes trying to be t-bone walker. That stuff mostly sucks too. The number of clubs who turned into volume bitches also came into prominence at that time, which further squashed the level of excitement.
IME the majority of players who came up in the 70's do not have the foundational approach to learning blues the way those who came up in the 60's and it shows, over and over. We have a dude running the local jam here who actually doesn't play a single blues song himself the entire night. I've gigged with, jammed with, or hired enough of those 70's era guys to know this. They are all rockers or blues-rockers (i.e not blues) nearly without exception. In fact my original guitar instructor had an attitude that blues was below him. Surprise, he still sucks at blues to this day.
You are making a completely false equivalency here based on your own tastes and interests.
