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Re: DD's Nitro Fuel - Birth of Shred?

red_thundr - 22 Jun 2005 17:29:50

> PS Yes, I know a lot of jazzbos could and did play really
> fast 'shred'-like stuff way before the early sixties - but this is
> the earliest solo I know that's truly a r&r shred solo. That's all
> I'm saying.
Nah, not even close. The first R&R shred solo was in Bill Haley and
the Comets' "Rock Around The Clock". That truly has all the elements
of a shred solo. To this day, it never fails to get me pumped up, and
that truly laid the groundwork for all shred to come.

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