I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

When I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath, and AC/DC, and all stuff like that. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, so the local radio stations played all that kind of thing.

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.

We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.