I'm checking in at work, and am therefore reluctant to click any links to play the videos. I'm especially anxious to see & hear the Roy Buchanan stuff, and also to learn about "shredding."

Several times over the past few years, I've had the chance to sit in with a young blues/soul/rock band from Brooklyn (the Witnesses ~ since broken up). These guys had become friends of my son and some other exiled young New Orleanians in NYC. They're students of the blues, and also of Memphis soul and Motown, music that was simply ubiquitous contemporary sonic "wallpaper" back in my youth, but which has apparently become "historical" and worthy of nerdishly obsessive study in this later era.

In any event, from their comments, I apparantly know something about "shredding," because they asked me where I learned to do it. I have no idea what they were talking about. I'm just an old acoustic blues player who has an occasional opportunity to hack away on an electric guitar ~ I've never even owned one of my own!