Darrell Lance Abbott Quotes
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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 was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
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'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
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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.
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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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If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
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I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'
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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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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 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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Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
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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 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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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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Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
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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 love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
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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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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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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 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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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.