St. Darrell's day

by **Styxx** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:19 pm

I raised a glass the the man in the wee hours, and had a round of Black Tooth Grins with my mates. I hope to hear that all of you paid tribute to the man at FTA.

I was doing a bit of Dimebag research today, and I came accross a reference to Aesthetis of Hate. I found out what that song's actually about, apparently it's Rob Flynn's reaction to reading this

Did a bit more research about the writer, turns out he's an over educated cunt monkey, who seems to thing that he can judge everybody and everything on the basis that he has a large vocabulary.

by **Lev** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:21 pm

Dimefag.

by **Gorecore** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:27 pm

Dimefag.

by **boovidge** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:28 pm

Gorecore wrote:
Dimefag.

by **MartinC** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:31 pm

Don't bother.

by **Atom** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:34 pm

Dime was a fantastic guitar player, anyone with a half brain can tell that he was. The guitar playing on the Cowboys From Hell album is totally ripping, why are you guys saying Dimefag? He was really innovative and kept heavy metal going when it should have failed. I honestly do not like any Pantera after CFH but jesus, give the guy a break.

by **MartinC** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:36 pm

Atom wrote:Dime was a fantastic guitar player, anyone with a half brain can tell that he was. The guitar playing on the Cowboys From Hell album is totally ripping, why are you guys saying Dimefag? He was really innovative and kept heavy metal going when it should have failed. I honestly do not like any Pantera after CFH but jesus, give the guy a break.

Well said.

by **Atom** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:38 pm

MartinC wrote:
Atom wrote:Dime was a fantastic guitar player, anyone with a half brain can tell that he was. The guitar playing on the Cowboys From Hell album is totally ripping, why are you guys saying Dimefag? He was really innovative and kept heavy metal going when it should have failed. I honestly do not like any Pantera after CFH but jesus, give the guy a break.

Well said.

Cheers.

by **boovidge** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:41 pm

i've got nothing against DD as a person but with Pantera he created a horrible brand of 'metal' which still heavily influences many acts today. To say Pantera 'kept heavy metal going' is like saying Slipknot kept heavy metal going IMO.

by **Styxx** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:49 pm

boovidge wrote:i've got nothing against DD as a person but with Pantera he created a horrible brand of 'metal' which still heavily influences many acts today. To say Pantera 'kept heavy metal going' is like saying Slipknot kept heavy metal going IMO.

I dunno, there's a lot of crap that's clearley Pantera influenced, like most of the core scene, but that's not really their fault. They still kicked ass, it's just people tried to mimic them and did a poor job of it.

by **Lev** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:50 pm

We just need Phil to die now.

by **swizzlenuts** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:35 pm

Atom wrote:Dime was a fantastic guitar player, anyone with a half brain can tell that he was. The guitar playing on the Cowboys From Hell album is totally ripping, why are you guys saying Dimefag? He was really innovative and kept heavy metal going when it should have failed. I honestly do not like any Pantera after CFH but jesus, give the guy a break.

Yes Dimebag was a great guitarist, technically speaking, but he sucked at songwriting. His riffs were so damn emotionless and only trying to be catchy. I find nothing innovative about his more nor do I think he kept metal going when it should have failed. Metal would have been exactly the same without Pantera, just a lack of tough guy metal, which is simply annoying and pointless.

Another thing is his tragic death, and how everyone latched onto this new Pantera bandwagon thing. I cannot even listen to a Pantera song with getting annoyed with the annoying tone and riffs.

by **Lev** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:45 pm

swizzlenuts wrote:
Atom wrote:Dime was a fantastic guitar player, anyone with a half brain can tell that he was. The guitar playing on the Cowboys From Hell album is totally ripping, why are you guys saying Dimefag? He was really innovative and kept heavy metal going when it should have failed. I honestly do not like any Pantera after CFH but jesus, give the guy a break.

Yes Dimebag was a great guitarist, technically speaking, but he sucked at songwriting. His riffs were so damn emotionless and only trying to be catchy. I find nothing innovative about his more nor do I think he kept metal going when it should have failed. Metal would have been exactly the same without Pantera, just a lack of tough guy metal, which is simply annoying and pointless.

Another thing is his tragic death, and how everyone latched onto this new Pantera bandwagon thing. I cannot even listen to a Pantera song with getting annoyed with the annoying tone and riffs.

Bingo.

by **Raging Paul** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:24 pm

What!?! Pantera are wicked! When you talk about all the people who 'latch onto' the whole him dying thing I think you miss the point. He was a legend when he was alive, because he was so fucking amazing at guitar and because his band RULED (before it split up). When he died, all the people who loved Pantera made a big deal about it. Also, a bunch of people who didnt really know about Pantera listened to them to see what the fuss was about.

The fact that loads of crap bands try hopelessly to imitate their awesomeness is no reason to slag them off.

Also whoever said that saying Pantera kept metal going was like saying Slipknot kept metal going, what's your point? Any heavy metal band that gets people into heavy metal and makes them drag themselves out to go and see gigs is keeping metal going. And Pantera did that in a BIG way, whilst also helping bands along the way (I remember seeing Satyricon supporting Pantera at Phil's request when barely anyone knew who they were, and then what was the big metal scene of the 90's? Black metal.) AND they gave a shout out to the bands that influenced them (Black Sabbath and Slayer are mentioned in their last album).

So anyway, they were metal, they were awesome, and if you're just having a whinge about Darrell's guitar tone then you've lost me completely; it was amazing!?!?

by **Lev** on Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:31 pm

I'm in spandex I'm in spandex

nOW Im A HARD JACK D DRINKIN BBQ RED NECK WOOO CAMOL~FLAUUGHEE

Dick.