Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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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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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 not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
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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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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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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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Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
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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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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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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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I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'
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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 was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
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I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
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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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I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.
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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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'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
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I'm into sounds, man.
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I'll sleep anywhere!
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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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I respect the Pantera fans with all my heart.