Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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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 lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
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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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Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
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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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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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My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.
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'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
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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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Yeah, nothing feels better than knowing that I can put a guitar in my hands at any time and rip - even when I'm taking a crap!
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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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If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
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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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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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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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I'll sleep anywhere!
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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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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 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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The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
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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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Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.