Do You Know Who This Guy Is?

Apparently this guy is a great guitarist.

If you can't trust what you read on the internet, what good is it? That's the question I'm grappling with after a recent exchange with a stranger made it perfectly clear that nothing is what it seems to be online.

I innocently queried, after seeing a photo of someone I did not recognize but whom many people were extolling, "Who are you?" OMG, you'd have thought it was a photo of Jesus Christ himself. The first answer I received was, "only the greatest guitarist who ever lived!" I responded (big mistake) with, "In your opinion," and then named some guitar greats I revered, including Alvin Lee, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. That opened a flood of nastiness aimed at me for not recognizing the guy. My favorite comment was, "Go sit down, Gen Z."

I had to look up the age range for Gen Z. What a riot! I told the commenter I had been at Woodstock, attended the Beatles' first US concert, went to the Fillmore East every weekend during college, etc., etc., and sorry but I didn't know the person pictured, maybe I was too stoned all those years. Turns out he was the lead guitarist from Pink Floyd whose name I already forgot.

Anyway, the rude commenter thought I was between the ages of whatever you are if born between 1997 and 2012. He/she was so wrong.