In the studio, the man who helped many of the decade’s more excellent shredding guitarists get their tones was engineer and producer Michael Wagener. If there’s praise/blame to award any single player for starting the whole trend, it probably goes to Edward Van Halen and his game-changing 1978 debut of “Eruption.” It took a couple years for players to figure out his approach en masse, but it’s safe to say that without Edward there likely never would’ve been bona fide shred masters like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani-nor the legions of players who had the hair and the “super strat” but far less-memorable chops and songwriting savvy. Michael Wagener keeps busy making records and teaching workshops in his Nashville-area studio.įor those who like their rock with flash-both technical and visual-the ’80s were a watershed moment in guitar history.
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