1. What’s the most valuable career advice you’ve ever received?
Don’t quit your day job.
2. Should artists allow free downloads and file sharing — or does that devalue the music?
I believe artists, or any other creator of a consumable product, should have the right to do whatever they want with their intellectual property – whether that means commercializing it or giving it away as a promotional device.
3. Do you feel you’re still improving as a player? How do you push yourself creatively?
I cycle through periods of both diminished and evolved technique attributable to long bouts of laziness or hitting plateaus.
Guitarist/Songwriter George Lynch is one of the originators of shred. Initially rising to