How talented is Dave Lombardo?
Have you every seen the movie The Natural? That’s Dave. He doesn’t have to try to be good. He comes into the venue 10 or 15 minutes before we hit the stage and he doesn’t warm up. He just goes and does it, after me and Jeff [Hanneman, guitarist] have been warming up for like an hour. So there’s an hour of warm-up what’s the rest of your preshow routine like? Mostly just killing time until the show. Hopefully, I stop playing videogames before then, you get “the thumb,” you know? [Laughs] Then I’ll probably stretch my neck for like five minutes in every direction I might throw it during the show. Then I do a couple rounds of headbanging while playing to get the hand and the head on the same team. Is there a right way to headbang? I guess everybody’s got their own style, but mine’s pretty much forward and backward. Since I have a shaved head, I do the front-to-back and side-to-side thing, like the big “yes” and the big “no.” You don’t need long hair to do it properly? Oh, no. If I did, I’
