for me because it sounds like someone throwing
ping-pong balls on the fretboard. [Laughs.]
I started taking lessons when I was 8 years
old. For four years, I just hated it—because I
was in my, “I just want to play sports” phase. My
dad bought me a Les Paul—which was just way
too nice for me to have—when I was 10 years
old. My friend Aaron was like, “You should start
playing guitar again. You got that Les Paul sitting
under your bed. It’s annoying.” [Laughs.] He got
a band together and played one or two covers at
a show called The Top 40 at my high school. The
whole school went to see it. I thought that was
really cool, so I said, “Wow, I wanna play in that
show!” So we started jamming on songs together
and getting whoever we could to play. Then we
started getting into the heavy stuff and our local
hardcore metal bands. Then I started playing
shows with the local bands, and that’s how I met
Phil and the whole music scene in our area.
Herbert: For me, it all started in 1988: I started
taking lessons and it was all about metal—
Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer. Primarily, I wanted
to be a rhythm guitar player because that’s what
drove me to really play. I wanted to play riffs. I
didn’t like solos for the first year I was playing
because I thought of [Poison’s] C.C. DeVille and
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