What Do You Think About "Shredding"?

[Boudoir Guitar]

It's just a general term by someone who doesn't like anything hippy related.
I myself like some old hippy music, and those hippy solos -- shred or not. I looked like a hippy about 30 yrs ago.

Having spent much of the 90s living in small mountain towns in the southeast, I'm well aware of hippy crap and its accompanying aroma (patchouli)

 

[PLX]

Having spent much of the 90s living in small mountain towns in the southeast, I'm well aware of hippy crap and its accompanying aroma (patchouli)

I lived on Nuku Hiva for 7 years after I got out of the Army (married a Marquesan girl).

You could only play electric guitar during the daytime because everything there ran on solar power.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Having spent much of the 90s living in small mountain towns in the southeast, I'm well aware of hippy crap and its accompanying aroma (patchouli)

My niece used to put that on.

First time I realized it I was like:

 

[JiveTurkey]

I'm thinking Hatebreed

It's just a general term by someone who doesn't like anything hippy related.
I myself like some old hippy music, and those hippy solos -- shred or not. I looked like a hippy about 30 yrs ago.

FTR; I was 100%-ing about the not liking anything hippie related part

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

What is hippy crap? Hippy music WITHOUT A GUITAR SOLO

Exemplary (indeed, archetypical?) Hippy Crap:

 

[PLX]

Exemplary (indeed, archetypical?) Hippy Crap:

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Having seen them play frat parties and clubs throughout the early/mid 90s, I have to say the guitarist/saxophonist could and did rip solos on both instruments during all of their live performances.

 

[PLX]

Having seen them play frat parties and clubs throughout the early/mid 90s, I have to say the guitarist/saxophonist could and did rip solos on both instruments during all of their live performances.

Nothing better than saxophone shredding.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Nothing better than saxophone shredding.

He played the TGF house favorite rig: Mesa Studio Preamp (might have been a quad?) into a mesa power amp.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

 

[HomespunEffects]

I saw them a couple weeks before that album came out. They were totally fun but what the freak is he saying?

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I saw them a couple weeks before that album came out. They were totally fun but what the freak is he saying?

Yeah, I saw them open for Dave Matthew’s Band fall of ‘94 in a 5,000 capacity horse arena. Peak 90s.

 

[norminal]

I love me some “shred,” but only if it serves the music.

 

[PLX]

I love me some “shred,” but only if it serves the music.

"You gotta serve somebody."

-- Bob Dylan, Drummer for Metallica

 

[Frodebro]

Even Ratt?

I never considered Ratt a hair band, but rather one of many established bands that adopted the look when it became the big thing in around 1986 or so. Hell, even Priest adopted the look during the Turbo era, but they were in no way a hair band.

To me, the actual hair bands were the ones that were signed in the record industry frenzy after Motley Crue blew up with Home Sweet Home. That song and video defined the formula that became hair metal- big hair, makeup, spandex, and the power ballad to attract females to the band. We used to refer to them as Poser Bands.

 

[HomespunEffects]

Yeah, I saw them open for Dave Matthew’s Band fall of ‘94 in a 5,000 capacity horse arena. Peak 90s.

I’m glad they opened so you could leave before a Dave Matthews came on.

 

[PLX]

I’m glad they opened so you could leave before a Dave Matthews came on.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I never considered Ratt a hair band, but rather one of many established bands that adopted the look when it became the big thing in around 1986 or so. Hell, even Priest adopted the look during the Turbo era, but they were in no way a hair band.

To me, the actual hair bands were the ones that were signed in the record industry frenzy after Motley Crue blew up with Home Sweet Home. That song and video defined the formula that became hair metal- big hair, makeup, spandex, and the power ballad to attract females to the band. We used to refer to them as Poser Bands.

I see where you’re coming from.

 

[Frodebro]

I’m glad they opened so you could leave before a Dave Matthews came on.

Credit where due, the DMB was tight as fuck and could tear it up, but putting Matthews in front made it music for pretentious college students.

 

[duzie]

I never considered Ratt a hair band, but rather one of many established bands that adopted the look when it became the big thing in around 1986 or so. Hell, even Priest adopted the look during the Turbo era, but they were in no way a hair band.

To me, the actual hair bands were the ones that were signed in the record industry frenzy after Motley Crue blew up with Home Sweet Home. That song and video defined the formula that became hair metal- big hair, makeup, spandex, and the power ballad to attract females to the band. We used to refer to them as Poser Bands.

Somehow many many years later I gained an appreciation for the “Poser” bands.
At the time of their rise I also wasn’t a fan.