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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.
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
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.
A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
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.
We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it ...
I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.
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.
