There is the rock n roll band that I grew up listening to. My favorite band, probably to this day, and they had this amazing versatility and top-notch musicianship amongst their original players. And they played these sophisticated chords that were straight out of the Miles Davis and Duke Ellington playbook. Though their main players were incredible musicians, they’d hire studio guys to help out on their records because the two songwriters and founding members knew that their players in the band sometimes couldn’t bring the sound they were looking for.
So, they’d bring in Rick Derringer, Lee Ritenour, Mark Knopfler, Larry Carlton or Elliot Randall to play lead guitar even though they had guys like Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and Denny Dias that were certainly capable.