a.) Wasnt suggesting that I am anything other than crap.
b.) Wasnt suggesting that if you can't shred you're crap. Fine. You dont shred because you dont want to. I want to because playing fast makes me satisfied. Making sound that you cant believe you're making is my type of thing, and I love that type of music. Simple really isn't it.
Cheers for all the advice lads. I'm not so clued up as to widths of strings etc etc - what width are the standard Super Slinky's?! That's what I'm using. Find I tend to break the top E and B strings. It's kind of annoying.
Does tuning your guitar really low help anything? (Apart from piss you off cos it's so hard to tune...)