"I don't like guys like that either. I walk into a room and people don't know who I am and then I see their attitudes, and when they find out who I am they drop their guard. 'Oh, Dave, how are you?' but before that, they had all this ego. It's like, I don't deal with people like that. My dad always said 'Never think you're better than anyone else' you know, and I've held that throughout my life. I'm first a human being like everybody else. I just have a different job. And just because I have this job it doesn't put me in a power to treat people different or to use people. I don't like people like that so I refuse to be one of them."
I love this statement and identify with it. I've never felt that my job as an engineer puts me above the secretaries, or the janitor, or anyone else. And I've never felt in any of my bands that my ability as a guitar player or leader of a group makes anyone else's opinions or preferences diminish.
For Lombardo to have this kind of humility, gives me something to aspire to. He's one of my favorite drummers, but he's definitely a very cool human being too.
I think it's so cool that he has a shirt designed specifically for him, and I bought one of his limited edition shirts! I want to support him in any way I can.
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