American - Musician | August 20, 1966 - December 8, 2004
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
Dimebag Darrell
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My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.
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I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
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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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Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.
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I'm into sounds, man.
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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'm a spazzer, you know?
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The local dudes who knew that my dad owned a studio would say, 'Ahh, dude is spoiled,' and this and that. But we didn't abuse it at all. I'd always ask if we could use the studio first, and if our dad didn't want us there he would tell us, and that was that. But I definitely tried to get down there as often as I could.
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People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
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'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
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Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
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