[Pan_Yan]

He should be jailed for being a no talent hack. But then they’d have to jail every musician with a top 40 record that is out today. Today’s pop music is nothing but computer generated and processed crap. Musicians these days have to look good because their music is so bad.

Is it possible that maybe you go into it with a predisposed bias? I don't know what genre you prefer but try some of these:

Snow Patrol
Death Cab for Cutie
Carbon Leaf
Shinedown
KT Tunstall

Those are just some I like off the top of my head. Eventually we all need to move past Nazareth and Dokken.

[dfwgator]

Eventually we all need to move past Nazareth and Dokken.

Hey now what's "Winger", chopped liver?

[P-Marlowe]

Since I have never heard of any of those groups, I have to assume that they are not “POP” music.

I didn’t say that all of today’s music is bad, but what today is considered “pop” music is almost universally canned over processed computerized crap.

I prefer rock and blues with a heavy emphasis on jazz chording and original blues riffs.

I suggest you try out Robben Ford.

I also love intense acoustic guitar fingerpicking in the styles of Tommy Emmanuel and Don Ross.