Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
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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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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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I'm a spazzer, you know?
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Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
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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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It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
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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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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
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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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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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I'm still the same cat I always was.
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I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
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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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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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Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
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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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Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
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I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
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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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We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
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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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Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.