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" Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me. "
Synyster Gates
Absolute
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Me
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" Everybody's lost somebody, and I think they all miss them incredibly. "
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" The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well. "
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" During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers. "
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" If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot. "
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" I think, back when I was younger, I was a lot more confident about certain things that I would write, and I didn't need the band's blessing or agreement; I would just kind of fight for it 'cause I knew it was good. And then the problem with getting older, especially when there's some success involved, you have a different measuring stick. "
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" We have to do everything a hundred and ten percent when we're doing it. If we're on tour, we're constantly thinking of different ways to make the show better, or whatever it is. "
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" When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until you're playing as fast as you possibly can. "
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Start
" Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way. "
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" It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff. "
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Fun
" My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes. "
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Song
Rock
" I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college. "
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" When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind. "
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Trust
Manager
" I don't feel like we have that Paul McCartney gene, and I think the cool thing about us is that we know it. "
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" We have a lot of fun. There are no holds barred when it comes to writing music for us. "
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Fun
" Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis. "
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" When we try and blend the two together, the songwriting and the touring like we did before, it doesn't really work. We tend to become very focused on what we are doing. And we tend to be a little bit one-track-minded. "
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" I'm a huge Weezer fan, and 'Pinkerton' is just a crazy, crazy neurotic album. "
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" When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives. "
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" I learned sweep picking from a variety of sources. One was a Frank Gambale instructional video, but he executes his sweeps a little differently. "
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He
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" For the first two weeks after he passed, we were done as a band. We were just done. And because of the fans and Jimmy's parents and relatives and stuff like that, they just demanded that we continue on and spread the legacy that is, you know, the crazy James 'The Rev' Sullivan. "
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" If you want to do things right, you have to dig deep for that inspiration. "
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" Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music. "
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" I wouldn't be one-third of the player I am today if it wasn't for Avenged. They're an inspiring group of guys, and I'm constantly challenged to write things beyond my ability and then figure out how to play them. "
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" We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make. "
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" I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically. "
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" We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird. "
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Odd
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" We're fans of stuff like Maiden, but I think we generally get it from weirder places. For me, the Eagles' 'Hotel California' represents one of the most brilliant harmony approaches to music. Boston did it very well, too. "
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" We're happier when we're with friends on tour. "
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" My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house. "
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