Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.
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I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
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I always go for that live, honest feel when I'm going for that first rhythm track. I'll never hold back on a part just so it'll be easier for me to double it later on - to my ears, it sounds sterile if you do that. I always want to get that initial track kicking and full of slurs, squeals and feel. I'll worry about doubling it later!
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I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.
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Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
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I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.
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Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.
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You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.
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Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!
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Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.
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I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.
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Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.
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Learn licks and songs from records.
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I'm not going for a soft sound. I ain't lookin' for a warm sound. My sound is warm, but I don't need tubes to do it. The Randall RG-100 is the best amp for what I do.
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Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.
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My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.
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The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
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I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?
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It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you decide to keep it because you realize that it's gonna be real tough to beat!
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I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'
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I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
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A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
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Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.