Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
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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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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 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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I'm a spazzer, 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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A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
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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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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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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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The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!
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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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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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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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I'm still the same cat I always was.
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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 not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
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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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Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
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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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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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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.