Billie Jean on steroids

There's a number of ways you can approach a clinic performance. You can wow with chops, wow with grooves, wow with feel, educate by example, etc. He chose to wow with chops, & very impressive too, it's just I would have preferred to learn something and see how such an impressive player augments that groove with fresh ideas. It's his choice to use that track merely as a click, a vehicle if you like, that I find unwarranted. His chops display did nothing for the track, & the track did nothing for his performance. Super impressive playing though, I can't take that away from him, just where am I, a member of the grovelling classes, going to use any of his display? As an audience member, what am I expected to take away from that, "I'm a chops god and you might as well give up"?
 
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