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I'll sleep anywhere!
Every song is different.
Learn licks and songs from records.
I'm still the same cat I always was.
'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
I respect the Pantera fans with all my heart.
Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!
Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.
I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.
All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.
I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.
Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.
Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.
The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!
Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.
My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.
We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
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.
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.
I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.