![]() I remember jamming that riff as a joke because we’d fill in the pauses, just talking into the mic. We were at Joe’s Garage in Burbank, just rehearsing and writing material for the record. “Yeah, there’s that fill-in lick that comes in. I Don’t Want To Change The World is another heavy hitter, with a lot of palm-muting and a major pentatonic fill at the end of the first chorus line… Later we ended up winning a Grammy with that song! Ozzy he told us to remember it and we’ll use it for something. And those influences came from our love of those bands.” So that song had those flavourings in the soup. To me, it sounds very AC/DC, you know what I mean? As for the intro part, that reminds me of The Who. “That was us summoning the power of Malcolm and Angus Young. Tinkertrain, has a monster riff using open power chords while pulling off the minor third on the sixth string… ![]() It forces you to come up with something, when you are working with less. "So it was like taking all the crayons out of the box, leaving myself just four to play with and seeing what I could draw with that. “I was looking at the list and figured the only thing left would be pentatonic scales. “At the time, three note per-string diatonic scales were super popular and everybody was playing in the vein,” Wylde recalls. The guitarist had also noticed a tendency for rock and metal players to play more modally and decided that a more direct-sounding pentatonic attack could, as well as helping him stand out, force him to become more inventive. ![]() I was looking at the list and figured the only thing left would be pentatonic scales If you don’t wanna sound like Eddie, don’t do any taps, harmonics, divebombs or whammy bar stuff.” If you don’t want to sound like Yngwie, who was still at the height of his dominance, don’t do any harmonic minor or classical arpeggios and sweeps. “I was wondering how I could sound like me and no-one else. “When I was working on that first record, I was only 19 years old, and then we started on No More Tears soon after,” continues Wylde. ![]()
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