I would definitely say that vibrato is greatly overlooked. You can seperate the good guitarists from bad in seconds based on vibrato alone. Face it, if your vibrato stinks then well... YOU stink! My friend showed me some random blues band on myspace once, a group of 17-18yr olds, and well... this guitarist sure could rip Yngwie style on a slow blues ( :( ) but whenever he tried to whip out a big fat thick SRV line, he would butcher it to hell because his vibrato was weak and/or non-existant. I've heard guitarists with 2yrs experience that sound better because their vibrato was good. They couldn't play 16ths at 240bpm but who CARES! And apart from this topic really, but seriously, if you're gonna shred... do it in jazz or jazz fusion, or heck do it like they do. Its soooo much more musiclally pleasing to listen to. :rolleyes: