Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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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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People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
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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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To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!
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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
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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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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 still the same cat I always was.
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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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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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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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If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
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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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Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
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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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Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
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Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
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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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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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To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.
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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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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.