Last week I bought “Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal“. I had a problem with the DVD though. It was unbalanced or something. It wouldn’t play correctly in a standard DVD player, but would play fine in my Laptop. I took it back to exchange it for another copy today, but they were all out. Instead they gave me credit and let me exchange it for something else so I found the new Dimebag Darrell book He Came To Rock.
The book also came with Dimevision Vol. 1. The book is great and is full of pictures of Dime, …read more

Here are a few excerpts from an interview with Rita Haney (Dimebag Darrell’s ex-girlfriend) and Vinnie Paul (If you don’t know who Vinnie Paul is then you shouldn’t be here). Anyway It came out of Metal Hammer’s January Issue. Three years later you’d think people would stop asking the same damn questions to the same people.
Metal Hammer: Do you think that had Darrell not been murdered that he and Vinnie might have eventually made their peace with Phil, and PANTERA might have gotten back together?

According to Revolver magazine, a bunch of Texas Dimebag Darrell Abbott fans want to erect (Hu-Hu, He said “erect”) a Dimebag Memorial statue. I say why not? Hendrix and Elvis have one. Why note Dime? You know what Vinnie Paul said about the “Hell Yeah!”. This is a great idea. I think this would be the only reason for me to ever go to Texas…and to maybe visit a friend.
The picture is not of an actual statue but of a sculpture you can buy at Knucklebonz.com, but I think it would make for a good pose for a statue.
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