Guitar playing started going down hill when people got tired of all the power ballads that were coming out at the end of the '80s. After Listening to a bunch of "poser" bands doing the same thing as the next guy people wanted to bring back good song writing. Enter: Kurt Cobain. Now people are hungry for that "raw" guitar sound and that's why we are seeing the end of alternative rock. As to wanting the '80s back, I agree with you to an extent as long as Poison, Dokken, and the rest of the "posers" wouldn't be around. But Motley Crue did rock!

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BadHorsie, holdin' it down like Gravity!