“I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?"”

— Joe Satriani

They throw it away and keep on playing.
As quoted in "Shred on Arrival" in Guitar World (November 1993).

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