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I think this is what made George Harrison great. He really did not play very much. His obbligato leads never covered up anybody else in the band. When he did a solo, it was simple and melodic, almost like what a singer would do. He even thinned out the tone of his instrument so as not to cover anybody else's piece of the sonic spectrum. He focused like a laser beam on what each song needed and hit it exactly. Never anything superfluous, never anything short of completion and balance.

Same with Merle Saunders, who played B3 with the Grateful Dead and many others. He could to a full jazz and repertoire with two hands and two feet, but when he played with some of the great rock bands he hardly ever played more than single notes.

And then, of course, there's Basie...

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