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" 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.' "
Brother
Me
Thought
" A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way. "
Kind
Good
Watch
" A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. "
Lived
Living
Worth
" A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. "
Movies
Horror
Kind
" Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm. "
Say
Time
Rhythm
" Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio. "
Why
Know
Nice
" Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame. "
Music
Motivation
Networking
" 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. "
Deep
Rock
Influence
" Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. "
Misunderstood
Everyone
Kind
" For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly. "
Old
Know
Satan
" For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever. "
Death
Forever
Standard
" 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. "
Me
Kind
Horror
" For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended. "
Hero
Used
Day
" 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. "
Time
Discovery
Horror
" Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. "
Seem
Eighties
Guitar
" Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. "
Guitar
Difficult
Easy
" 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. "
War
Home
Horror
" 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. "
Guitar
Just
Race
" 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. "
Never
See
Think
" If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. "
Play
Me
Guitar
" 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. "
Wisdom
Embrace
Feel
" 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. "
Guitar
Me
Mean
" 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. "
Science Fiction
Science
Space
" I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark. "
Correct
Fix
Things
" I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror. "
Love
Space
Genre
" I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! "
Me
Way
You
" I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series. "
True
Dead
Blood
" I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep! "
Sheep
Death
House
" I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks. "
Think
Saying
Horror
" I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy. "
Someone
Think
Wrong
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