I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

Petersburg) and the Netherlands India China Cuba Latin America and the Canary Islands. His virtuoso solo live shows are awesome in the sounds he extracts from his guitar. Discography.

2007) "perhaps the greatest living electric guitar player" (Daniel Levitin) and one of "the most innovative and challenging guitarists playing today" (fRoots March 2002). 2006 Rolling Stone); a "legendary leftfield guitarist" (The Guardian 24 Dec. Lucas' style melds easily into rock and blues has "avant-garde affinities" but is "not easily typecast.