I am familiar with all Beatles tunes - I own all the albums and know them all pretty well to say the least. George was great in the context of the Beatles (as was Ringo for that matter), and I am not going to knock them as a band because they were awesome. No other band comes close to achieving what the Beatles did in rock/pop.
But George as a player, had a lot of great ideas, but I don't think was all that great technically. This is all subjective of course, but to me George never really made the instrument 'sing' the way a great player can. I always look at a player's vibrato, or lack thereof, as in my opinion, that really shows of the quality of a player. I can't even think of what George's vibrato was like, but I can always recall the vibrato stylings of EC, SRV, BB King, David Gilmour, Brian May, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai.
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