>rep from fellow musicians, esp. when they know a player
>definitely has skills.

All of those guys were infinitely more advanced players than their songs required. I've never hear a musician say a bad word about them. And if they did, it would probably be out of jealousy for the lifestyle they acquired after selling 47 gajillion records.


>Like Jazz people didn't like Quincy Jones doing pop
>productions in the early 60's or Miles playing "Human Nature"
>and "Time after time" in concert is his latter years.

That's nothing to do with playing, that's a genre issue.