Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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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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I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
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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.
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When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
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When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'
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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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When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.
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My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
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When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.
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On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that. It'll hurt your ears.' But my dad just didn't understand.
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'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
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I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'
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Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
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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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You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.
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I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
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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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Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
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I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
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I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.
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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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Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.
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Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.
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The local dudes who knew that my dad owned a studio would say, 'Ahh, dude is spoiled,' and this and that. But we didn't abuse it at all. I'd always ask if we could use the studio first, and if our dad didn't want us there he would tell us, and that was that. But I definitely tried to get down there as often as I could.