Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.
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My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.
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Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
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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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A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
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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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I'm a spazzer, you know?
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If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.
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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
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The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!
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I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
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I'm still the same cat I always was.
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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.
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To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
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As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
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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.
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Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
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Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.
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To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.
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Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
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Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
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Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.
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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.
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'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.