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If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Every song is different.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.

Dimebag Darrell