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- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
My musical tastes change every week.
- Fragile
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there to your Yngwie Malmsteens or your Steve Vais or whatever.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.
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