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zepp_rules
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09/14/2001 11:00 pm
I've been listening to a lot of Randy lately. I've discovered more than i knew. His guitar riffs and solos are very intricate, and i believe his is as good or if not better than Eddie Van Halen. He was an extremely good songwriter and very talented. (just listen to his version of paranoid) It's a shame that he died so soon, the was seemingly no end to his possiblities. As Ozzy said, "he was to good to last."
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.

--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By