Dimebag Darrell: To be honest, I?m not one who tries to claim a bunch of influences. I?m not jazz this or classical that. As far as classical goes, Randy Rhoads was as far as that got. He was a big influence and so was Eddie Van Halen ? he still is. I?m hardly influenced anymore because I listen mostly to my old records. But off their old stuff, Michael Schenker and even Angus Young were influences. But I?d have to say that Ace Frehley was probably my biggest influence. Just the whole image, and especially that vibrato he?s got [mimics ?wowwowwow? vibrato sound!]. That was actually the reason I started playing guitar, by the way. I dressed up like him, got a fake Les Paul, skipped school to play in front of the mirror, then went from there.
