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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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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.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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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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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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I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
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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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Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
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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?'
Darrell Lance Abbott
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Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
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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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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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I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.
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I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'
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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.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.
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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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I'm into sounds, man.
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Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
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.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
Darrell Lance Abbott
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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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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.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
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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My first killer amp was a Sunn Beta Lead. It was solid-state, but that Sunn was incredibly loud. I used to say to my friends, 'Hey, check it out. It's only on two.'
Darrell Lance Abbott