Dave Lombardo Quotes

• Mike Patton is a genius… It is definitely the hardest music I’ve ever played.

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• I’m doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

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• You’re at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

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• You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that’s just the experimental side of me.

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• When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

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• We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn’t going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

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• There’s a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don’t enjoy. There’s nothing to do.

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• There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn’t know what it was going to be like. I didn’t know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.

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• Right now we’re in the process of writing new material for a new record.

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• One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in ’89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.

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• I’m really not into the educational aspect of performing. It’s not in me.

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• I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn’t around.

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• I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

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• At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it’s more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It’s a lot more fun now with the family.

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Dave Lombardo (14)

Birth:	16th February, 1965
Nationality:	American, Cuban
Profession:	Drummer

About

David "Dave" Lombardo was born in Havana, Cuba. He is a Cuban American drummer and a co-founding member of the American thrash metal band Slayer. He performed with Slayer on nine albums, including their groundbreaking 1986 release Reign in Blood and their 2006 release Christ Illusion, for which he received critical praise. He is most widely known as a very aggressive, phenomenal and exceptionally skilled heavy metal drummer. His use of the drums have been called "astonishingly innovative" and earned him the title "the godfather of double bass" from Drummer World.

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