he is very underated. there is a story about a instructor a git. guitar institute in LA. that many of the super shredders like paul gilbert steve vai. two of rhcp members and rivers from weezer and jeff buckley went there. just to name a few. he said every year he goes in and there before him sit's a class of some of the most gifted young kids in america. they can play van halen,bach, john coltrane whatever. he said the first thing he does is ask em to play and sing malcoms part from tnt where he is playing and singing the aye part at the beginning of the song. not one of em can ever do it. it's insanely hard to play it and sing it at the same time.