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My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.

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I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college.

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Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way.

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My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.

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Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.

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Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We've been very blessed to meet a lot of great bands, successful bands, that we can go tour with.

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Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

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I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.

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The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

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I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 7th, 1981

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