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American
-
Musician
August 20
, 1966 -
December 8
, 2004
Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.
Dimebag Darrell
Water
,
Man
,
Mirror
,
Kiss
,
School
,
Makeup
Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
Dimebag Darrell
Heart
,
Soul
,
New Things
,
New
,
Try
,
Damn
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.
Dimebag Darrell
Music
,
Day
,
Chill
,
End
,
End Of The Day
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.
Dimebag Darrell
Yourself
,
People
,
Energy
,
Help
,
Doing
Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.
Dimebag Darrell
You
,
Always
,
Your
,
Collection
,
Favorite
I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.
Dimebag Darrell
Love
,
Time
,
Inspire
,
Me
,
Band
,
Because
If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.
Dimebag Darrell
Enough
,
You
,
Bad
,
Happen
,
Always
,
Up
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.
Dimebag Darrell
Work
,
Learning
,
School
,
Me
,
Listening
With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs ,it'll be twice as killer.
Dimebag Darrell
Yourself
,
Doing
,
You
,
Enjoy
,
Learn
,
Way
I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
Dimebag Darrell
Done
,
Say
,
Cause
,
Gonna
,
Ever
To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.
Dimebag Darrell
Man
,
Yourself
,
Cool
,
Me
,
Long
,
You
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
Dimebag Darrell
Black
,
Hell
,
Inspiration
,
Sabbath
,
Like
My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
Dimebag Darrell
Live
,
Death
,
Pain
,
Hair
,
Performance
The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.
Dimebag Darrell
Time
,
School
,
Brother
,
Crazy
,
Train
,
Bed
I'm still the same cat I always was.
Dimebag Darrell
Same
,
Always
,
Cat
,
Still
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
Dimebag Darrell
You
,
Know
,
Something
,
Crowd
,
Improvise
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.
Dimebag Darrell
Brother
,
Writing
,
Own
,
Heroes
,
Ace
,
Like
The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!
Dimebag Darrell
Man
,
Me
,
Done
,
Always
,
Up
,
Give
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
Dimebag Darrell
Think
,
Musicians
,
Bored
,
Natural
,
Over
Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.
Dimebag Darrell
Life
,
Me
,
My Life
,
Guitar
,
Changed
I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.
Dimebag Darrell
Kiss
,
School
,
Face
,
Paint
,
Ace
,
Used
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?'
Dimebag Darrell
Walk
,
Week
,
You
,
Say
,
Right
,
Kid
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.
Dimebag Darrell
Sometimes
,
Two
,
Up
,
First
,
Bring
,
Out
I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.
Dimebag Darrell
People
,
Rock
,
Find
,
Kid
,
Out
,
Like
I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.
Dimebag Darrell
Rejection
,
Go
,
Hard
,
Lines
,
Cheeks
,
Some
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
Dimebag Darrell
Advice
,
Book
,
Play
,
Worst
,
Ever
,
Dad
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