Why do you keep going on about tapping and shit?
Because he feels that's the only way that someone can be considered "intense" or a guitar hero.
Hendrix never tapped, but Segovia did. One is considered a guitar hero and the other is not. Kirk Hammet taps, but Wes Montgomery didn't. Both of them are guitar heroes, but in their respective fields, not so much an across the board type of influence like Hendrix, or someone on a more popular scale.
Shadow doesn't know music, any genre. He knows what he likes, and because he feels one thing is great or "intense," than it must be the best thing ever.
Music is highly subjective. In regards to time keeping, feel, licks being played, space used, harmonic movement or whatever. What one likes, another may hate. Praise, or disdain- to each their own.
But shadow confuses the two, often; and can't distinguish between the lines when there should be a clear delineation.