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“Learn licks and songs from records.”
“I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!”
“I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'”
“Every song is different.”
“Sometimes it's cool to play major third and minor third diads back-to-back, or a minor third followed by a root/fifth diad - whatever combo sounds good.”
“People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.”
“Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.”
“Whenever I record more than two or three layers, it starts to get cluttered up, and you can't hear the cut of the guitars as good. It's hard to get four guitars to hit at exactly the same time and keep the attack tight.”
“Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.”
“Even though I'll do finger warm-ups that go up and down the neck to build up my chops and dexterity, I never, ever sit around and practice the actual licks I'm gonna play live. If you do, then you'll be all worried about the complexity of getting the fingering right and everything else about it, as opposed to the feel.”
“I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.”
“Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.”
“On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that. It'll hurt your ears.' But my dad just didn't understand.”
“I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.”