Zacky Vengeance Quotes:- Zacky Vengeance is the rhythm guitarist for Avenged Sevenfold.
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I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They’re just so brilliant because they breathe.
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When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.
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What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.
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My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.
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I remember when I was a kid, every time the Beatles were on the radio, my dad would say he’d give me a dollar if I could tell him what band it was. So by the time I was about nine, I knew to just say ‘The Beatles,’ and I’d get a dollar out of it.
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Basically, everything I’ve learned on guitar, I’ve learned from listening to my favorite albums. I never had any formal training. My teachers were Dimebag Darrell and Slash and the guys in Rancid and Slayer.
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On our first album, ‘Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,’ we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.
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A great way to get your rhythm playing together is to work with a drummer, preferably someone that has a good groove and plays solidly in time.
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‘Waking the Fallen’ truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n’ roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.
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Even when we were at that point when we had very few fans, we never felt like a small band. We always felt like we had a big purpose.
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I’ve always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.
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I like being able to do dueling leads, and it’s fun to be able to shred.
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After ‘City of Evil,’ the world was still kind of apprehensive about Avenged Sevenfold. They didn’t know if we were a serious band or just some kids trying to play really ambitious music with crazy guitar parts that would be here one minute and gone the next.
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Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed.
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If we were to find a drummer that we were comfortable with and who we felt could really become a part of what we’re about, it’d be great. But would we ever rush to find a guy just get back on the road? No. I think we’d rather go down with the ship.
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Basically, we’re just a bunch of kids who got together and try to use what we have and try to learn from each other.
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We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don’t use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show.
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There’s always going to be haters, but those people are few. We’re not too worried about it.
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There are people that have never heard of our album. The most they’ve seen is either our video on ‘TRL’ or our picture on the cover of magazines.
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Just by nature, we’re always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound.
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We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.
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We like to be in touch with our fans, but we’re also very private. ‘Cause, to us, it’s not about Zacky or M. Shadows or Synyster Gates. It’s about Avenged Sevenfold; it’s more important than anyone of us.
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We’re very historically tried and true when it comes to our albums. We pick the best songs; we get rid of the songs we feel don’t fit on the album, and we don’t work on remixing or remastering albums.
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All the song choices that we’ve picked are unique in their own right. They’re fun, and it’s really just to engage our fans.
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It’s just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and totally take a song and twist it around and have fun with it.
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I can honestly tell you, if it wasn’t for our fans, there would not be Avenged Sevenfold right now.
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When we called each other and got the call that Jimmy had died, literally, it all ended right there. Everything we’ve ever known as human beings, everything we’ve ever known as a band, changes at that moment, and you can’t think clearly.
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With any success, a lot of voices come out, and you start hearing a lot more opinions on the matter. We’ve provoked very strong reactions in both directions since day one.
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I can’t honestly say with a straight face that every Avenged Sevenfold album is my favorite.
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You always have to try new things, and that’s the one thing that we’ve learned from all the greats – every album isn’t gonna be every fan’s favorite, but as long as you keep switching it up and making new fans, it’s really about being persistent.
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From day one, we’ve always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we’ve had and presented. That’s also kind of been the driving force that’s pushed us forward.
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A lot of people have ideas and opinions on what Avenged Sevenfold should be or what we should do, and I think our No. 1 rule is to always make sure we never listen to any of that and to always do what we believe.
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We’re always talking and plotting and discussing what we can do to give our fans the best possible experience and leave everyone going home with having an amazing time and a memory that will last a lifetime.
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We’re in the business of making fans that will last with us a lifetime. In order to do that, you’ve gotta give them something special.
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It’s always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.
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Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you’re looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live.
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With ‘Hail To The King’ – our last album – we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal.
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That’s what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious songs that pull in all different directions.
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The first review our band ever got – when I was 17 years old and we had just released our first EP, and this tiny little magazine wrote a review on it, and for that month, we were the best album of the month, and we were also the worst album of the month. We won the best and worst album of the month in the same magazine.
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I think, as long as people have a strong opinion, whether they love or hate us, I think we’re doing something right.
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Iron Maiden and Metallica are bigger now than they ever were. They’re playing stadiums across the entire planet. Even though it seems like their heyday was back when MTV and the radio played their songs all the time, the truth is that they’ve gotten bigger now because they play all the time, and people know they’re going to get a great show.
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You carry on knowing that there’s something so much more important than yourself to deliver to millions of fans across the world, to all your friends, and to yourself.
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We wanna be on the frontlines of everything new and exciting. The old world order of putting out four singles before you release an album is so boring to us.
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