Well said.  I'm always blown away when I watch Alain perform.
 
I think alot of players out there resort to mindless chops and slapping when they run out of ideas - Alain Caron never stoops to that level.  He simply never runs out of ideas!  Everything he plays is tasteful, has structure, direction and actually conveys something.
 
I still can't get out of my mind the image of Victor Wooten doing a backflip onstage - enough said.
 
Rami

I saw Alain give a seminar, and what impressed me was not just his chops, which were tremendous, but his ideas.  He performed one song that was inspired by watching a ping-pong ball drop off a table. Each time the ball bounced, the time that it spent in the air was reduced by half.  Basic physics, but Alain interpreted it rhythmically by arranging a song in which the chorus replicated the ball's declining bounces: starting with whole notes, then halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds, sixty-fourths, etc.  Quite something to watch.

Sorry if posted previously, but a bit of video for your viewing pleasure:
 

 

Cool!  Thanks Tom!