looks like we've lost one of the greatest metal guitarists ever.
Dimebag Darrell was a huge influence on me and thousands of other guitarists.
i never really got into the Damageplan stuff, but Pantera's first couple albums remain absolute masterpieces of the genre.
Lennon was killed 24 years ago to the day (almost to the hour). why do people keep killing the good musicians?
fuck.
i guess this would be the appropriate track to post at this time:
Do not mention those two in the same 20 minutes please...
Man, I'm bummed. I've heard rumors that Vinnie Paul may have been shot as well. This is awful. I completely agree with you that the first two Pantera albums were masterpieces of heavy, raw, powerful music.
Posted by: Mark at December 9, 2004 2:26 PMdear pretentious beatles fan: take the yellow submarine out of your ass.
Posted by: jp at December 9, 2004 5:29 PMhah!
Posted by: David at December 10, 2004 9:28 AMThe truth is probably somewhere in the middle [post #1 vs. post #3]. Like it or not, metal will probably go down in the books as a bona-fide genre. But it's not like "Dimebag" changed the course of popular music or anything. (Hell, did he even change the course of *metal*?)
Posted by: Jason at December 10, 2004 11:04 AMJason, Dime was probably the most influential metal guitarist of the nineties. Pantera were one of the bands that led the shift away from the the hair metal glam stuff of the eighties to the heavier, more aggressive sound it has now. metal is currently seeing a huge resurgence (see eg, the popularity of Ozzfest and the return of Headbanger's Ball) and just about all of the new metal bands show a strong Pantera influence. so i think it would actually be quite reasonable to say that Pantera and Dimebag have had an effect on popular music and it would be completely ignorant to say that they didn't change the course of metal.
Posted by: robotanders at December 10, 2004 11:40 AMWord, Anders. Cowboys/Vulgar were oases in a desert of early-'nineties mediocrity that I am thankfully starting to forget as I get old.
Posted by: max at December 10, 2004 4:05 PMYou guys forget to mention that the two first albums are not Cowboyz and Vulgar... That's one of that old glam rock CD that nobody's want to talk about. But without those 4 albums, Our Dimebag would perhaps not have been what he was... That's sure, even if I'd rather listen to the "new" Pantera sound we can't forget those stange cds of another time :-).
Dime, you've reinvented the steel !!!!!!!!
there are no words to express the sadness i feel for Dimebag....i hope nathan gale rots in hell..
Posted by: fern at December 17, 2004 5:34 PMfuck you jason dimebag was and still is a metal god.you dont know shit!
Posted by: tonto at December 12, 2005 7:24 PM