True but Shanks had to fight like hell to get BD to sound like it did. To say "all we've heard from" isn't really accurate, it's more "All that sounds closer to the style he plays". I hear him throughout the new album and here and there on THINFS but he's doing what he's paid to do, serve the song and be in the background.

I absolutely agree about Jon's assessment about Shanks's style of bluesier playing at times. When he's not trying to replicate U2, Pink Floyd and The Killers, a song like Fingerprints is pretty much in Richie's wheelhouse.