It's Always About The Music, Never About

When I'm Home On A Break, I Lock Myself In My Room And Play Guitar. After Two Or Three Hours, I Start Getting Into This Total Meditation. It's A Feeling Few People Experience, And That's Usually When I Come Up With Weird Stuff. It Just Flows. I Can't Force Myself. I Don't Sit Down And Say I've Got To Practice.

Most Beginners Want To Learn Lead Because They Think It's Cool .. Consequently, They Never Really Develop Good Rhythm Skills .. Since Most Of A Rock Guitarists Time Is Spent Playing Rhythm, It's Important To Learn To Do It Well .. Learning Lead Should Come After You Can Play Solid Backup And Have The Sound Of The Chords In Your Head

I Was Trying To Take The Band In A Direction That I Thought Was Appropriate, And Roth Was Trying To Take The Band In More Of A Las Vegas Direction. And There He Is.

Holdsworth Is So Damned Good That I Can't Cop Anything. I Can't Understand What He's Doing. I've Got To Do This [does Two-hand Tapping], Whereas He'll Do It With One Hand.

The One Thing I Do Have Is Good Ears. I Don't Mean Perfect Pitch, But Ears For Picking Things Up. I Developed My Ear Through Piano Theory, But I Never Had A Guitar Lesson In My Life, Except From Eric Clapton Off Of Records.