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" 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. "
Synyster Gates
Pretty
Me
Lines
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" In a studio situation, I'm able to dig deep and come up with stuff that all the guys think fits the vibe of the song. And I think that's partly due to the fact that I grew up listening to just about everything under the sun. I'm very open to music, and I like to do things in a traditional and musical way. "
Synyster Gates
Sun
Deep
Listening
" 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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Legacy
You
Know
" Maybe we'll do some fun stuff here and there, but I don't want to record any more songs. "
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Fun
Want
Songs
" We're happier when we're with friends on tour. "
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Tour
Friends
Happier
" It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have fun with what you're doing. "
Synyster Gates
Fun
Doing
Focus
" Bullet for My Valentine, we're bros. We've been in the trenches with those guys. "
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Guys
Been
Bros
" 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. "
Synyster Gates
Music
Fun
Innovation
" I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically. "
Synyster Gates
Forces
Band
Very
" We kinda were a radio-rock band. We were still pretty technical, but I think the prog people hated us because we didn't do a bunch of weird time signatures... which are cool at times, but I'm more interested in progressive harmony. "
Synyster Gates
Weird
Think
People
" My father was a studio musician, played for a lot of people like Frank Zappa and a lot of R&B bands, and was always gone doing that. Then when he was home, he was practicing. And so I always saw it, and I always wanted to do what he did. "
Synyster Gates
Doing
People
Always
" We don't ever spread ourselves too thin. And sometimes it's a little bit to the chagrin of our fans; they don't get albums... I mean, The Beatles were doing two albums a year at one point. "
Synyster Gates
Doing
Year
Two
" Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We've been very blessed to meet a lot of great bands, successful bands, that we can go tour with. "
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Great
Successful
Go
" 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. "
Synyster Gates
Getting Older
Good
Success
" Everybody's lost somebody, and I think they all miss them incredibly. "
Synyster Gates
Miss
Somebody
Think
" Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way. "
Synyster Gates
Reading
Space
Think
" I think it's beneficial to practice with a metronome or drum machine in order to strengthen your sense of time. It will help your concept of time and improve your feel. "
Synyster Gates
Practice
Feel
Will
" 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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Cool
Us
Think
" We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make. "
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Best
Long
Make
" We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we rehearse intensely. And I have a guitar pretty much in my hand for at least five hours before doing a show. I'm just noodling and mucking around and working on some of the songs here and there. "
Synyster Gates
Doing
Play
Want
" We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard time with us having all the control. So when we signed with Warner Bros., we told them we would be working hands-on with our producer, and they were cool with it. "
Synyster Gates
Hard
Us
Time
" Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me. "
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Absolute
Masterpiece
Me
" I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon. "
Synyster Gates
Like
Boss
Weapon
" If you want to do things right, you have to dig deep for that inspiration. "
Synyster Gates
Want
You
Right
" I think if you go to 'Strength of the World,' a song like that, the chorus isn't that great, but you go into the bridge and other things and the catchier parts and the better melodies we were really focused on. "
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Great
Bridge
Strength
" 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. "
Synyster Gates
Us
Best
Money
" I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it. "
Synyster Gates
Lot
Exploring
Style
" 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. "
Synyster Gates
Everything
Doing
Better
" We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold. "
Synyster Gates
Think
Success
Moments
" Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations. "
Synyster Gates
Together
War
Rain
" My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he's kind of just this shredder that plays on my records sometimes. But they don't know his ear and how rich his harmonic scope is. "
Synyster Gates
Guitar
Sometimes
Know