I first heard Lenny when I was in my early 20's - relatively late in the life of a guitar player. The exact circumstances are lost in my foggy memory, but I remember the feeling of listening to a musician doing things on his instrument that I hadn't heard anyone else do before. The impact was immediate - I was hooked. I needed to know how he created those beautiful sounds. Then I saw some video of Lenny playing; he's using a thumbpick... and he has enormous fingernails! Yikes