So is anyone in this thread not into the depressing slow old blues shit or gypsy jazz (who the fuck even listens to this crap!?) 
Who listens to this crap? Lets see now, where do i start: Tony Iommi, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmmy Page, Jeff Beck, Clapton, Chet Atkins (RIP), Derek Trucks, SRV, Knoppfler, BB King, Perter Frampton, Santana, T Emmanual, Steve Howe, George Benson, Jerry Garcia, Satriani, Malmsteen (I can go on & on...) & just about every "shredder"/heavy metal guitarist known to man, including Michael Angelo Batio ( Voted No. 1 Shredder of All Time" by Guitar One Magazine).
If you were a guitar purist, you actually knew a bit of history about the instrument you seem to love so much, or had half a clue, youd know that.
All thanks to a gentleman by the name of Django Reinhardt (the father of Gypsy Jazz), who started it all way back in the 1930s, and influenced some of the greatest guitarists of all time. Oh, and he only had 2 working left fingers, and could keep up with any modern "shredder" guitarist could do with four. He was tearing up the axe (with 2 fingers) when Michael Romeo was swinging in his grand daddys nuts.
So next time you are jamming out your hero Yngwie (who incidentally named Django “the best guitarists who ever lived”), guess what dipshit – you can attribute much of that to Gypsy Jazz.