Music

Yeah, Tim's statement was awesome because he straddled between the worlds of extended techniques & shred, and pop music collaborations. So the boomers and media , hungry for the next pop sensation wanted to get to him, and his frank explanation of , as the article you linked to put it , "the crutch" really got sand in their butts.

Which had a long time coming; even though the boomers played loud and distorted, as soon as you hit distortion any wilder than sabbath or played over 200bpm would CONSTANTLY sling mud about how it's unexpressive junk, which is offensive to anyone enjoying or playing death metal, progressive metal or *shock horror* Technical Death Metal, combining the two and sometimes even adding JAZZ INFLUENCE! 😱

Thankfully headless, ergonomics guitars are becoming more and more mainstream, and these weird bands and playing styles are getting more recognition.