Originally posted by trendkillah
Shred is NOT dead. Jeez, I know most of the guys here are always making fun of this kind of MUSIC(open your mind, and realize it is more than just playing fast), but personally I find that a bit childish. Maybe it says something about the age of the members here, I don't know.

Just for the record, no "shred" guitarists, other than Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and John Petrucci, are making BIG money. I've even heard of some lesser known guitarist joining the 'n Sync live band recently, and I'm sure he's making a LOT more money that way.(talking about "selling out! but I'd take that gig too in a heartbeat)

So, by it not being dead, I mean that there ARE people who are recording and bringing out music like this, and there ARE people who listen to it. So how could it be dead? Is every style of music that is not mainstream dead? Nope!

If you enjoy listening to "shred"(I hate that name btw), then great! But if you don't, why do you waste you're time and energy bitching and whining about how dead it is?

That is all! ;)


Greetz, TK

ok what? i didnt use any energy with my simple "NOPE" and PonyOne even made it better, but we didnt make fun of it, we didnt do namecalling. and my "nope" was meant for his question "can they still make millions" and besides a few, shredders arent rakin in the dough.
zeppelin made an awesome statement about nirvana, i mean all kirt cobain really played was a few chords each song, maybe a short ( VERY SHORT ) solo somewhere in there, but really his music was simplified. people loved it because it was good music overall that if they got stuck in their head, they didnt get a headache from it. now, get a shredder song stuck in your head, and after a day or two, tell me if you have a headache. i'll hide the aspirin.