What Do You Think About "Shredding"?

[Eagle]

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Anyone who can’t find something on this channel to make them smile seriously has a problem.

 

[Dave Lewis]

I love it when a guitarist can melt your face with speed. It is fun and impressive. Obviously, this can be done poorly with simple repetitious patterns that don't offer much melodically. That gets old pretty quickly. The top tier musicians play harmonically and melodically complex lines at shred tempo. For example, the stuff that Guthrie Govan plays in Fives is really interesting and simultaneously shredtacular.

Guthrie is a brilliant outstanding guitarist and a really nice guy .
I still haven’t seen anyone who can play a fretless guitar like him.
The man is a genius with no ego Just a massive love of playing the guitar.

 

[OrganicZed]

Guthrie is a brilliant outstanding guitarist and a really nice guy .
I still haven’t seen anyone who can play a fretless guitar like him.
The man is a genius with no ego Just a massive love of playing the guitar.

Guthrie is one of the people who actually deserves the genius descriptor. Not only is he among the most elite musicians in the world, he is also a brilliant orator. He was pursuing a degree in English at Oxford University (one of the most prestigious Universities in the world) before decided to pursue music full time.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

R.E.M. comes to mind as pretentious college music

/triggered

Fuck yes I hate that singer fucker's whiny little bitch ass voice.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Back in ‘78 I thought this was shredding

It was shredding back then.

 

[la szum]

Shredding is and always will be the best way to clear a room.

Doesn't matter if it is you, your friend, your friend's band, or your friend's Dad's band.

I think all of the best shredders have grown out of it (Kotzen, Gilbert to name
just a couple) while those who have not, and doubled down on the cartoon
like nature of shred, are caricatures of their former selves. Sorry, Yngwie and Michael
Batio.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Ironically, it was a friend’s older brother who introduced me to Styx through Kilroy Was Here

Said older brother should be bitch slapped. Kilroy Was Here - of all Styx albums? The self-indulgent and self-masturbatory Dennis DeYoung "Magnum Opus" concept album that pissed off the rest of the band? Reaaaaaalllly?

Observe:

 

[PLX]

Said older brother should be bitch slapped. Kilroy Was Here - of all Styx albums? The self-indulgent and self-masturbatory Dennis DeYoung "Magnum Opus" that pissed off the rest of the band? Reaaaaaalllly?

I bet he was just mad because he never got the keys to the Lambo from Batio.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

I bet he was just mad because he never got the keys to the Lambo from Batio.

That's the poseur Lambo looks like.

Yeah that Kilroy Was Here album broke up the band. They were never the same after.

 

[PLX]

Yeah that Kilroy Was Here album broke up the band. They were never the same after.

Damn (Yankees).

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Furious George has a few tricks up his sleeve

 

[PLX]

Furious George has a few tricks up his sleeve

He just got lucky.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

He just got lucky.

In his dreams.

 

[DrewJD82]

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Anyone who can’t find something on this channel to make them smile seriously has a problem.

0:26 into this vid is the exact second that turned me into a gear nerd when I was 11.

When he switches to the Dumble then steps on the Fuzz Face, that fucking tone is from another planet. I’ve yet to hear a tone on that level since, even from EJ. It was hearing that and seeing what looked like science lab equipment making all these crazy sounds to my inexperienced, 11-year old eyes and ears that sparked it all.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Styx is atrocious. Using them as a taste barometer of some sort is dumb unless you are 150 years old.

 

[Eagle]

Furious George has a few tricks up his sleeve

Never rated him . He is VERY ordinary . Any note not in Em is “outside."

 

[JiveTurkey]

Shredding is and always will be the best way to clear a room.

Doesn't matter if it is you, your friend, your friend's band, or your friend's Dad's band.

I think all of the best shredders have grown out of it (Kotzen, Gilbert to name
just a couple) while those who have not, and doubled down on the cartoon
like nature of shred, are caricatures of their former selves. Sorry, Yngwie and Michael
Batio.

Definitely a target audience type of playing

I love Gilbert. But his best stuff to my ears is the Racer-X stuff Kotzen is a great player but if anything; I'd rather he play for a band that writes good songs and needs a great voice and soloist. Not Poison but also not Winery Dogs.

It's really a tough gig to "move on from" as all the things you (well; I) loved about it are very juvenile in the best of ways. OTOH; Yngwie hasn't written a good song in 25+ years; so it's not like it's sustainable to stay successfully "stunted" at 360bpm

 

[la szum]

I’m a bigger fan of composed music that uses speed for impact.

I concur. It's about the acceleration, for me, and not the sustained 180mph.

That sense of increased G Force via acceleration is addictive to drivers
of nice cars, cyclists ( ), and appreciators of musical impacts.

0-100mph is where it's at when it comes to impact, in my opinion.

 

[la szum]

I could listen to that all day.

The first thing that came to my mind was the Al Di Meola and Paco De Lucia stuff.

It’s funny, there are some rock/metal guys who seem to think rock/metal invented shredding

In the 20th Century Jazz/BeBop and Coltrane. Mostly Coltrane and Charlie Parker, right?

When I think of how the Fusion guys of the 1970s ripped I can hear how they are
mimcing and inspired by the Sax-lines of guys like Coltrane and Parker.

 

[la szum]

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've always said Patchouli is what Hippies call a "Shower."