So I guess we're all shredding like madmen just to impress other dudes...

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I remember back in the day all the gals in the local scene used to swoon over Nuno Bettencourt. While I wanted to believe it was because of his playing, I think it was because of his ‘Iggy Pop’ bodyfat levels and the fact that he didn’t own shirts. In the ‘let’s get laid’ column, Shredded abs beats shredding licks.
Yeah, being inherently attractive, having money, and/or having some kind of social clout are pretty much the only important factors and everything else is related to those. The reason there is the impression playing guitar or singing well might get you attention from the ladies is more about the impression the ladies have that it means you’re getting attention from everyone else.
 
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Speed/technique is just another color/emotion/energy to have access to. Metal/Hard rock has ALWAYS had innovative, over the top guitar and love for the instrument and pushing boundaries on it...if it's proper. I don't want to listen to any metal/rock music that doesn't have killer guitar.....and rock music suffers when it doesn't have it, it just does.

Guitar is more that worthy of the same respect as any other instrument when it comes to developing your ability to play it. It's only because guitar is in popular music and viewed as for everyday person that you have rationalizers like that that douche writing butt salving poison like that.....not because he thinks he doesn't have the chops, but because he didn't have the love/passion for the instrument/music to make them happen.

The skill level of the ladies these days compared to yesteryear is fucking awesome...they are bringing it just like the guys now, I love it! I'm teaching my daughter(10), if she so desires I hope SHE becomes the next EVH and inspires a new generation to play.

Long live rock guitar! Play til' your fingers bleed for YOU, and make it musical :)
 
I've been accused of shredding via comments on my YT vids, but I am not a shredder. I do not have the ability or technique.
 
Reviewing my last two wives have said about guitar....

"I'm not really into that."

"That's interesting"

As for the women in the 80's - 90's I picked up at gigs....
I'm pretty sure they were just out to get fucked and guitar had little to nothing to do with it.

I'm almost 60.... I would question the mental situation of any women my age that was after musicians.
 
Yeah, there are actually more young women and, really, young people in general into extreme metal and stuff like that today than there was in the 90’s/aughts when I was in my teens and twenties. You haven’t seen a sausage fest like a turn of the millennium death metal show. You haven’t smelt one either ?

That said, I feel safe saying most of us here are way past the age where these issues are a concern. :LOL: I’m glad I’m not single in my 40’s.

The CDC just put out the new info on average health measurements of Americans, and the average woman is now like 5’ 3”, 170lbs with almost a 39” waist. Good luck out there fellas!
Yeah what the fuck happened to hot chicks. I rarely see one on a daily basis.
 
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No disrespect. You're wife is beautiful. When it comes to shredding I'd rather watch paint dry...yawn.
 
of course they do! chicks might care if they look good doing it, but no female is like "wow, he really knows his way around a fret board". i thought we all knew this. full disclosure. i can't shred at all. i can play pretty fast, but i never practiced anything structured coming up... i just noodled a lot. so i can play some improved leads that sound nice, but they're not going to impress anyone on a technical level.
Dude you just describe my guitar career I feel I am the same way, and it kinda hurts because I wish I were so much better
 
No disrespect. You're wife is beautiful. When it comes to shredding I'd rather watch paint dry...yawn.
guys like guthrie and matteo are incredible players period. holdsworth. untouchable skill.

however i too don’t envision skipping down the street whistling a matteo mancuso or guthrie govan song anytime soon, nor huddle around the campfire singing a rousing chorus of holdsworth’s “white line” with my family?
 
the mighty zachman rig at his former hot licks shop in pearl city. my wife bought that gtr from him.
ah kk... Once Dan's opened I seldomly ventured out too far since his shop is like 5 minutes from my place.. and whenever I did go to hot licks it was closed...
 
ah kk... Once Dan's opened I seldomly ventured out too far since his shop is like 5 minutes from my place.. and whenever I did go to hot licks it was closed...
copy dat

too bad you neva wen go spockum with the cameron atomica driving the wdw ship. such a killer tone.
 
me too dude! brother Pat puts a picture of his lovely lady up and we look at the mark in the background....lol...
what makes that even funnier (or more true) is that apparently he didn't recognize it as Zach's.
 
me too dude! brother Pat puts a picture of his lovely lady up and we look at the mark in the background....lol...
that was such a killer sounding rig. the last time i played it at his shop with the cameron it was like vh brown meets nuno grind drenched in the best fx possible?‍????

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