It's got to be immediate - that type of thing. That I think is a very conventional way of approaching music for a performer. I don't use a lot of conventional techniques on the guitar. But then, I'm not interested to play in the areas those techniques were developed to serve. It wouldn't be any good for my purposes to do a sort of imitation of Charlie Christian or something.
People can refer to that, say, as conventional guitar playing.
But it isn't. It's conventional jazz guitar playing of a certain period. To certain people, the only way to play a guitar is in a flamenco style, which I think is quite beautiful, incidentally. These are taken to be sort of standard conventional techniques - but, actually, they're techniques that serve certain purposes. Between the two, he probably knows more about the guitar, and can get more out of it, than anyone else.