I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.