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[Music] [Music] panta have taken their place as one of the seminal heavy metal bands of all time Texas boys Vinnie Paul Abbott dibag Daryl Abbott and Rex Brown along with New Orleans native philan Selmo created Groove metal and quickly joined the ranks of their musical Heroes panta flew the metal flag high they kept metal Alive by pushing the boundaries and stayed true to their Roots each album heavier and harder than the last to this day panta still have a loyal and dedicated fan base all over the world that will never forget them panta have written absolute Classics any metal fan will name just like what they would consider anthems what what any self-respecting metal DJ at a club or on the radio would play or whatever and you're going to have to name some panta songs in there they were one of the bands that you didn't just well they're okay no I never found anybody in my entire life that said yeah they're all right no you either love panta and you're hardcore or you hate them I think one of the reasons why panta always had such a fan base and such respect is because they were the one band that was metal the whole way through I mean Metallica eventually cut their hair and changed their songwriting um most of those bands did but panta only got more metal as it went along I think they were really loyal to their fans so their fans were loyal to them they never sold out they they did what they were going to do they didn't change their lyrics or their music so that it could be played on the pop radio station you know they they decided what they wanted to do and they did it they were like a family and I mean and they and that extended on to the people around them the crew and their friends and you know the people that supported them drove their van of band gear to the local bar or whatever when they were just you know here in town those guys still hang out with them you would go to concerts around town and you would see them you know Vinnie and Diamond you wouldn't really see Phil that much because he was kind of his own Rick loose kind of guy from what I understand but uh the rest of the guys man were just there just rubbing elbows and hanging out with their [Music] fans Texas the Lone Star State the Wild Wild West although famous for being the backdrop to the assassination of a president and the setting of the world's most famous soap opera Dallas enjoyed a healthy music scene in the 1980s renowned throughout the South and there's southern hospitality and then there's Texas hospitality and you know people are a lot more polite even when you're mad at somebody it's you can usually sell it over over a drink or something you know I've had people who want to kick my ass countless times and we end up doing shots there's also a camaraderie that doesn't exist a lot of other places in the world it's like you know musicians need to be here there seems to be a core of people who have been here for years and we see them at all the shows uh it just it's just like a small well actually it's a large family yeah everybody's good friends you know and that's what it's all about it's about going out and having a good time and you know just getting right there you know nobody's special you know what I'm saying like we all sure they are well you know I mean we're all friends with everybody yeah there was a big music scene not anything like Austin or Seattle at the times but there was a pretty good music scene going on in in north Texas Dallas Fort Worth area there was always a pretty healthy scene around Dallas there was always uh when when The Rock clubs got going and back in the mid 80s and even before that there was a good scene but there was a a chain of clubs you know you sure you could you could travel around the Metroplex and uh have a good [Music] time in the late 1970s in Arlington a suburb of Dallas the earliest incarnation of panta was formed Brothers Vince and Daryl Abbott joined forces with Bas player Tommy Bradford and vocalist Donnie Hart Terren Lee soon replaced Donnie and the four high school students began practicing songs by their Heroes Tommy Bradford Begins the story the summer of 1979 is when we first met and then carried it on through all through High School Vince and I met in marching band believe it or not I was a trumpet player and he was a drummer and we came together and learned of each other that you know Terry and I were starting to look for a drummer we didn't like our drummer and Vince and darl were looking for a new bass player and so he and I met at Summer band camp Vinnie he was known as Vince back then Abbott was a was a star of the the drum corp in high school just the best drummer around his dad had and when he started in the band in high school he' started to play Tu but he brought it home and his dad was like you're never going to make a dime with that turn it back in and get some drums CU his dad Jerry was um he was a country western songwriter and performer so he he knew about the music business Terry and I showed up over at Vince and Daryl's House and uh we started playing we started immediately jamming at Vincent Earl's house out in the garage I got in the band they said you got to wear spandex I said no way but I eventually put on some freaking spandex there was wild stuff that went on in that house lots of things we weren't supposed to be doing it was out of control Vince and Daryl's House was party 24/7 that was when de leopard's first album just came out nobody knew of Death Leopard this was before this was on through the night before photograph and all that stuff in the ' 80s came out and um we started covering and we sounded just like them and plus they were only two years older than us so we were excited about the fact that here's a band that's really big named de leopard and they're doing great we can they were kind of our mentors oddly enough um Terry and I were like you know we really don't want this little 14-year-old guitar player which was Daryl obviously turned out to be one of the best guitarist in the [Music] world passionate about music panta took their band very seriously covering songs by their Heroes writing songs of their own and mastering their instruments Daryl kind of disappeared into his bedroom some people say for 6 weeks I'm we say for six months point of the story is he came out and he could play like he could play you know he was you know Diamond Daryl Lance as he called himself at the beginning Dimebag Daryl whoever you want to call him he was already just the master of the guitar and he was 15 skinny as could be giant poodle haircut you know look at him he looks like a it looks like a microphone in short order Terry stopped playing guitar just saying cuz he couldn't you know he couldn't stand up to what Daryl was doing we'd play probably close to two or three hours a night every night and we'd play we sound proofed Vince and Daryl's garage we got a lot of tickets for access noise yeah what was it excessive loud music we covered a lot of Cheap Trick Judith Priest Errol Smith B Halen ACDC just all those bands in the late 70s early 80s that were uh would be considered soft rock now compared to some of the stuff even the stuff that um Panda played later I think their first gig was at uh is it the Roxy or the Ritz I can't remember which over in Dallas Daryl was so young his parents had to be there so he could get in and he just won a new guitar you know from another contest every in fact they they would not allow him to do any more contests cuz he won them all it was like okay Daryl's here nobody else has to play this was the first panta tour shirt that we built and it says you know panta we actually went to the old t-shirt shops they had in the 70s where you could get the stencils and know I didn't even tell you about how we became with a name I mean we went through several names and panta came up we actually it was originally named after the car there's a Ford made a car called The panta and I can't remember Vince or somebody knew about it so that was originally why we came up with panta but then we learned more about the name pant and found out it was a cat and so that's what we got this cat made or it was already there because it was a stencil but 1981 US tour which the US tour was around the Dallas Fort Worth area Vince and Daryl's father country and western songwriter Jerry abber encouraged the boys in any way he could his knowledge of the music industry and the fact he owned a recording studio pantigo sound Studios would give the band a head start Jerry Abbott had a giant influence just because he owned a recording studio P pantigo um Studios out in I guess it's in pantigo but it's part of Arlington basically just a tiny little little town between Arlington and Fort Worth and we were back off the road at the end the end of a dead end road so there wasn't a lot of heavy traffic but it uh it basically was all about music we didn't do any advertising we matter of fact we ran ads that said we don't Jingle the guys could go in there and record when no one was in there and Jerry would produce it and record it and all that stuff so they had to step up on all those other bands too so when they wanted to put on original album they already well comfortable with being in a studio and when that red light comes on being comfortable to play the play their stuff I mean they're just they're pros at it well before anybody else was usually Vince and I would lay down tracks together and then it'd have to be Terry and Daryl would put you know the overd you know Jerry was their manager he ran sound for him on the road and but even more important than that he allowed them to actually play shows because Daryl was too young to even get into these clubs cuz he was 15 16 years old he was definitely the fifth m of the band meanwhile darl Abbott in particular was exhibiting a natural talent that would see him take his place as one of the best and most respected guitarists in the world Jerry Abbott's business knowledge and production expertise was starting to rub off on young Vince even then you could tell that Vince and Daryl were destined to be rock stars at that point cuz that they were passionate about it and to the point where Daryl he he he didn't have anything to do with girls back then believe it or not and you know he wasn't gay but he just didn't have anything to do with girls cuz all he wanted to do was play his guitar and he played his guitar all the time and we used to joke about he'd just sleep with his guitar and wake up and start playing it uh vny on the other hand was always uh more businesslike he uh he was like let's get it let's get it done you know sure we practice you know seven nights this this week but we should have practiced longer you know five of them you know it's just there was never enough and he he was just really a driving force as far as that went they had no ambition to do anything else if it did not involve music they would have never been happy just that's just the way it is panta continued to work hard on their music and it looked like all their efforts were about to pay off were rock stars in that little universe that we were in we were burning it up a bunch of uh skinny little kids dressed like girls Hispanics jumped up and down singing about heavy scary stuff we had sent a demo tape to Tom Warner I think he was with Warner Brothers at the time and he liked it but it came down between us and another band and he chose the other band we don't know for sure who it is but that was about the time mle crew came around the scene so it could have been a coincidence or it could have been but Tom Tom Warner sign them so it was right around that time and after that that's when I basically said we were that close we didn't make it I'm going to college very quickly after that they got Rex Brown who had been playing in another band and he had heard about panta and he always wanted to do it so he went over an audition for him and started playing with [Music] him in 1983 they decided to make a video so they hired a a video producer to come down we were playing in uh Sherman they ended up making it out of all over tonight they decided to do something special at the end of the video and Daryl had a guitar that was broken and he like put all this chain all over it and all the kinds of stuff hanging off of it put a plunger at the end of it put his Gladiator stuff on and it was out there put then he was playing you know air guitar into that to that song and the very end of the video you get a little glimpse to that and with Daryl breaking the guitar and everything it's just hilarious he just was having a great time just typical Daryl even though panta were writing and recording their own songs in the pop metal style of the day it was cover bands who were most popular at the time and panta became well known and loved on the southern circuit original music wasn't exactly what people were looking for in those days they wanted whatever was on the radio they wanted van Halon and Judith Priest and kiss the Abbott brothers were huge kiss fans Daryl was just would run around all the time in his Ace Freely makeup just you know painted up in front of his mirror playing his uh playing his guitar one of the reasons they rose up so quickly through the ranks is they weren't just great at covering the songs but they had actually come up with this kind of Arena level spectacle they had uh this guy named Ken Webster who they nicknamed Pyro and he came up with homemade py Technics came up with this homemade light system he was a guy from the Air Force and he kind of scrs around the base got these B52 Landing lights these Bombay door lights all these things he rigged them up through his own digital sequencer and so they had explosions they had this massive light you know just rivaling anything that was in an arena and it was in these little tiny clubs and so for a fraction of what you could get for what you you would pay to go to this arena show you'd get the same songs the same sort of level of professionalism and you're probably you know 10 minutes away from your house yeah they started out playing three- hour sets of of you know Metallica and priest and Van Halen in like nobody's business you know and when they play when they came to your section of town you went or or you drive to for worth it didn't matter or if you were in your band playing out some night sure enough dime bag would be right there come on let me come on let's go yeah but the funniest part about it he was Diamond Daryl but that was a thing to do if you can get opening slot with pant you know that was that was the gig that was the gig we're oh we're playing with panta oh we didn't you know it was guaranteed crowd and it was just it was on you know always a good time this is a par of darl slre SL they made me wear them spandex yes and uh I don't know what size that waist is but uh there's very very few people that I'm sure could even stretch it out you know enough to get her [Music] on by 1986 panta had recorded three albums at pantigo Studios metal magic projects in the jungle and I am the Knight were all released on their own record label metal magic records with the help of Jerry Abott by this time the characters of the band had formed Terren Lee became known as Terry glaze Vince became Vinnie Paul and Daryl the youngest member of the band changed from Diamond darl to Dimebag it it took them 8 to 10 years before they really became big and so they played a lot of small gigs in remote areas around Texas and Oklahoma that a lot of people don't know about and they probably don't want to remember it cuz it was you know it was rough and actually from my understanding that's how darl got his nickname is somebody had asked him you know you must be making a lot of money he said no said I haven't I don't even make enough money to afford a dime bag it's a measurement of of some sort of drug the irony of that is is Daryl never did drugs that year Metallica released their seminal album Master of Puppets it was clear that metal was evolving Vinnie and Dimebag were inspired by this harder sound and began to move away from the pop metal Style they had championed this did not fit with Terry glaz's vocal style and he soon parted company from the band ptera began the search for a new lead singer one name that kept coming up was Phil anelo who was already well known on the New Orleans hardcore scene they knew and I knew right off the bat the first time we had ever jammed I had never played with a band this typ I mean these guys were stunning you know it was like my God you know this is on unbelievable they were looking at Craig our singer and we kept on going oh dude we got this guy in New Orleans Phil because Phil was a couple of years younger than me and he was in a band called razor white and that was sort of Hagen's competition so we were like going hey we'll introduce you to Phil which was like kind of funny because they just love Phil right off the bat because Phil was very he knew right that he had Phil core tattooed on his hands at 14 you know used to come over to my house and go dude I'm going to be a big rock singer one day I'm like going dude it's not that easy but he did you know he just blew up he knew it from the like the beginning and people would always tell him about this kid from Razer white that man that's got to be your new singer that's got to be you know it has to be and uh they were telling Phil that too so Phil called the Abbotts up he they brought him down here and basically you know right away it clicked and they'd found the guy they were looking for and in January of ' 87 they played their first show together they were headed that direction already though there's no doubt about that with Phil came in though he focused that energy yeah he just made it reinforced it that yeah I'm the dude and and you know of course he had Daryl and Vinnie and Rex and what I mean it was perfect you know I mean we all were like at that time going wow watching them just blow up you know was and it happened quite fast it seemed like before that that it was one big party the the energy that that dime and Vinnie and Rex had you know after after Phil had joined the band before that they all had it cuz Terry was like that and they were just crazy party when Phil came you still still had all that party going on but you had him in front that was stronger than all and he is who he is on stage and you believe that about the rest of the band as well the framework for panta existed before Phil and S was there panta recorded and released the album power metal in 1987 their first with Phil ancelmo on vocals the album merely hinted at what was to come even after releasing four albums the band struggled to find the right recognition and distribution this changed after Atco representative Mark Ross was stranded in Dallas after a hurricane and caught a panta show he signed the band there and then these four guys come on stage and they start spinning their hair like oh boy what what are we in for here but then Daryl just launches into one of his riffs and then Phil opens that mouth of his and this just roar comes out that just is overpowering from the get-go if if you have to name the one point it would have to be they got signed by ATO I mean obviously that's that's the major step that most people do not achieve getting Atco I mean they're part of Atlantic Records that was enormous because they had access to new touring partners and they had access to you know new distribution in 1990 panta recorded and released their major label debut Cowboys from Hell at pantigo Studios with producer Terry data that controls the beginning of a long collaboration a significant change to the pre-s panta sound Cowboys from Hell is considered by fans and critics to be pant's proper debut album how about the first time you heard Cowboys from Hell record oh my God there's no reason to listen to panta before Cowboys from Hell whatever anybody says however purist anybody thinks they are anybody who listens to those albums thinking that no that's the true panta that's the old school thing that's the thing they need to get back to it's just just absolutely dead wrong I mean there's no reason to go back to that because that really was their prenatal stage their slight hints of what they were going to do later on but there's nothing before the '90s that's really um worth holding on to to to be honest a lot of bands will have that period where it's something that's best forgotten in their case it's definitely best forgotten you know when I first had the impression of panta with Cowboys from Hell you know heavy metal you know just balls out rock and roll and then I come to town and uh I'm up at the z-rock network one day and the program director was showing me some of the albums their four previous albums where they were all glammed out and that was like waa that's panta I mean it was like night and day so it seemed to me that maybe they were uh they were pretty smart in the sense that they were uh adapting themselves to what was going on in the musical Trends and uh not to the sense of selling out because they've always stayed true to their to their backbone of who they are but uh just the outward appearance kind of seemed to change a little bit as as time went on people maybe want to look back and look back at you know the 80s and then the 90s and see that as calculated I don't think it was really calculated I mean I I think that's the direction they were going in anyway um did they change their style of dress maybe but I mean I think that sound was always going to happen for them at some point just because that's what Vince and Daryl were really into I don't think panta all respect them were really quite a student enough to really really think about Market forces or just how the music was going to appeal I think they were just doing what was right for them this is a time where music was diverging people were listening to more people wearing Cardigans playing acoustic guitar than anything else and so in a way you can kind of see panta fans really being the people who had an allergic reaction to that people at the absolute opposite side opposite side of the spectrum who were just looking for something else in music and that was just a kind of honesty that I think a lot of other bands didn't necessarily portray because they didn't have the full range of emotions that panta did Cowboys from Hell struck a cord with with metal fans the world over the album was to change the face of metal forever and included the anthem Cemetery Gates Cowboys from Hell is just one of the ultimate ultimate metal records Cemetery Gates all respected Dio is absolutely one of the finest vocal performances ever in metal period just the the the sort of dynamic that phon Selmo has as a vocalist where he can just go from the growls to the the masculine kind of screaming and just like the this this sort of falsetto that's really beautiful and packed with emotion is just absolutely unparalleled nobody else has done it as well since he did that song Cemetery Gates was a was you know had that slow ballady acoustic guitar kind of thing and then it kind of it was just a really good crunchy you know crunchy sound that that was kind of you know there was other people doing it but these guys for somehow just kind of brought it all in and made it their own and it was just it was just great stuff it took that hard sound that they had and it combined that with Phil's background in the hardcore scene which was total different kind of vocal style and then mixed all that in with this Texas Blues influence you know it was kind of like zezy top just like this muscular version of zezy top so it still had that kind of swing and that sort of GrooVe and that songwriting to it while still being just you know massively heavy and Incredibly aggressive from Daryl's guitar to Phils PHS vocals I mean that just immediate reaction it was just you know visceral and you know it just was absolutely different than anything out there you can almost say that panta had two Beginnings in a way you know they they had their initial beginning and the one that people became aware of with Cowboys from Hell where obviously their identity seemed to alter ever so slightly I mean as talented as d bag was as a guitarist when you listen to Cowboys from Hell certainly their attitude had change F and some would brought this whole kind of masculine aggression to it that people hadn't really heard before and all of a sudden they really did become the kind of the Vanguard of a of a of a whole lot of bands that um all of a sudden became vent for aggression Cowboys from Hell was the launch panta had been waiting for and they quickly found themselves sharing the stage with their Heroes supporting Metallica Judas Priest and ACDC on world tours they were going from you know the headlining the bars tours to they were opening I think at that point uh I think they opened for Aussie at some point on that one they were they were picking up some some pretty good slots uh you know with some some name International acts and getting a lot of exposure and you know MTV picked them up Headbangers ball was playing them like crazy at the time they started sharing the stage with all the big guys that they had uh they had had been their Heroes coming up and the thing is they didn't change at least at least when I saw them they weren't any different they were still darl and Vinnie to me they were always fans of of Music in general to begin with and especially the old school medal they're all their Heroes you know the Judas priests and and Black Sabbath and and all of that great stuff you know that was their Hero's kiss you know growing up that's all those guys listen to and and they ended up you know doing some really cool tours with those people and uh uh it was always a thrill you know especially for dbag him and Vinnie were like little kids kids man it was like wow we're out here on tour with these guys and and it's it's a it was really cool Testament to how much of a they weren't doing it for the money they weren't doing it for the fame they were doing it to because that's what they like to do is make music and also they're just fans you know I think they they handled success very very well I think they did and I I think they started grooming themselves to handle success from day one and I think that was partly their dad as well not not knowing whether they were really going to achieve it or not you need to be ready for this and there's all kinds of stories about them coming through town and just basically destroying whatever Arena they were in not them but the crowd cuz they got them so fired up that they would actually destroy front the seats just ripping them apart and the MOs and just going crazy we had a little one of those breath lizers on the road dime brought it in from somewhere and so everybody would you know see how drunk you are oh dude you're not nearly drunk enough you know pour him another shot about 3,000 people about 1,000 of which had just erupted into a MOS and I'd never been more scared in my life cuz I was 16 and I was literally just hearing bone on bone and just like flesh hitting the ground and everything and fellon Selma was just on the stage just looking like this absolute shirtless demigod you know he had his tattoos out this and that look completely evil he was like blowing snot on the stage dime bag was just going absolutely crazy on his guitar and I'd never seen anything like that in my life and I was already into death metal I was already into my really heavy [ __ ] but there's just something that was so much heavier about the way that panta played that they just they made the crowd completely kick off in 1992 panta recorded Vulgar Display of Power their last at the Beloved pantigo Studios it was this record that showcased a new sub genre Groove metal and included anthems such as walk and mouth for war to the fans surprise the album debuted at number one on the billboard chart and panta were championed by MTV and received extensive radio play M war is an incredibly aggressive song you just don't expect people to be listening to on their commute into work they had just finished recording Vulgar Display of Power and uh they came down to the show where we were in the afternoon when we were loading in and brought us a pre-release tape so that we could listen to their new stuff and we just kind of all stood around in the parking lot going wow this is this is it and it was and I think that's the one that really pushed it on in front you really saw the the spillover into into Vulgar Display of Power because that's where you know this sort of critical mass they had built up like just exploded into to Vulgar Display of Power but you know um that's what really was like all right this band here to stay their stars and you know I don't think I think that's their best record I think you know they' gotten their style down they knew what they wanted to do they had enough Freedom basically that they could do exactly what they wanted to do on that record 1992 93 might have been where panta were at their absolute purest I mean this was the Camelot before the round table broke and Lancelot [ __ ] Gren air in a manner of speaking um simply because it was it was them that they're most innocent and that they're most successful as well hantera were not the kind of band to rest on their Laurels they returned learned in 1994 with far beyond driven their heaviest album yet far beyond driven continued the groove metal approach panta had created but in a more extreme Direction I I remember one of the main thoughts going into that record was we have to be heavier than vulgar this has to be a heavier record and I was thinking to myself how is that possible you know how do we do that engineer Sterling Winfield began his long collaboration with panta on this ambitious album when Terry D called and wanted to finish their album far beyond driven and I was a assistant engineer on that record one of the things that I absolutely loved about especially about Daryl and Vinnie always trying to top themselves always always trying to better themselves and make the next album heavier make it even more frightening than the last one you know so that people just you still hear it's them you know it's them coming a mile away I think they achieved it every time they made a record you know it just got heavier and heavier and it it it grew it progressed you know it matured it did it went from from one thing to another but all albums were always great and always music masterpieces in my eyes far beond driven divided critics but the fans loved it and it hit number one both in the USA and Australian album charts the first metal album ever to do so that was the most abrasive record I could ever imagine and it went and blew up the chars number one it just scared everybody which was great I think there was a necessity for panta to release Now link far beyond driven simply because they wanted to show people that they weren't softening up this is a thing that you see happening with a lot of metal bands that are accused of selling out once they're successful for doing nothing other than following their own instincts the reaction is well let's make it heavier let's make it less appealing in a way even though ironically enough that was an extremely successful album because vulgar everybody thought how could they get any heavier how could they do any better than that and they did I mean it was amazing it was it was just I still get chills thinking about it you know about how watching the whole process of mixing down that album Watching Terry and them do their thing it was just it was amazing to watch it go down because all the magazines you'd read and see it say overnight sensation panta you know like we've been out slaving on the road for four hard years and seven years in the nightclubs before that it was pretty exciting to that panta have all my respect for not doing that for not catering to that certainly but at the same time they made a mistake because they also got away from what they were really good at doing which is just writing really good songs songs that you want to mosh to songs that you want to punch the air to or just honk your horn to when you're stuck in traffic uh that's that's what they're all about it's just appealing to like really base aggression in people and it's not to say they don't write beautiful ballads there's some really amazing things I mean Hollow is an absolutely beautiful song but when they're at their best is when they're sounding mean and uh far beyond driven just sounded a bit too technical bit up its own ass I think they really wanted to prove to everybody that you know they weren't going to let a little bit of success go to their heads and they weren't going to start you know making these you know nice clean videos or making these songs that were meant for the radio I don't think they ever thought they were going to be on the radio and that was a surprise to them the thing that I really think they only cared about really was that the fans loved it that's who they're making the record for themselves and for the fans you know and that was uh what they really cared about and if somebody gave them a bad review or they panned it or whatever I really think that they just went oh well you know million other people love it you know so that's what they really cared about that and putting on a monster show for metal to have a band like panta come out and enter the charts at number one it just showed you that there's no way you can't kill this because there will always always be a band that's going to fly that flag in the face of everything else and panta was the band in the 9s that did that that you could actually say saved medal after touring far beyond driven panta decided to take a break and Phil anelo headed back to New Orleans he recorded an album with his long-term side project down and embarked on a short tour this raised doubts about Phil's commitment to pan ter there was a lot of pressure on the band um both internally as a result of people's uh proclivity to party and do everything else next internally as well there's a lot of pressure on them to produce and the best thing a band could do at that time is just yeah just just kind of have a break and just get away from all of it pH and someone was kind of guy who just always need something to do and I don't think he wanted to just sit around New Orleans you know just twilling his thumbs or whatever and so you know he got together with the guys that he kind of growing up playing with or being in the same scene with and and down did its own thing and I think that's probably when some of the tensions in the band started because down I mean I don't think any of the guys knew what down was going to be it was much more of a of a big thing than than I think they thought it would be and certainly you know toward the end of the band when he had had not only down but also uh super joint ritual and was still working on all these other things I mean Super joint ritual even was like a fairly decent sized band and you know his Focus off panta was certainly wavering whereas these other three guys it was panta panta panta you know they never would have you know I don't think they ever they ever would have ended the band I think they even waited around for Phil longer than they probably shows someone like Phil and SoMo sits backstage at a festival at a show talks musicians says yeah this would be good let's do this sometime whatever and I'll follow up on it some of the side projects are half ass some of them aren't down are at absolutely one of the greatest bands in the history of metal that's nothing to sniff at because felen is an incredibly talented musician it made sense for him to go off and try the things pant's next album The Great Southern Trend kill was recorded at dimebag's new home studio chasing Jason in Arlington however Phil ancelmo stayed in New Orleans to record vocals it seemed the band were not as close as they once were Phil's lyrics tackled drug abuse and suicide and his vot style was darker than ever fellas said in interviews repeatedly that if panta weren't a metal band they'd be a Southern Blues Band and they would be playing acoustic blues the thing is anyone who listens to Johnny Cash knows that that's Heavy Music it's not about how hard you hit the drum it's just about the weight of the lyrics and that's the kind of gravity that Penta were trying to move toward all of the instrumentation was done at Dime Studio Chason Jason which we still use Terry would leave here and go to New Orleans to record fi vocals and then they would marry it all up and get it all together and then they ended up mixing the whole thing in La he would do his vocals and then I would bring him back to Texas after two weeks and they would hear him so there's more of a disconnect between uh between the two it was the only way we could work at that time it was obvious they were in Decline creatively and that's not to say that they didn't have more albums in them but certainly uh they've been going for too long and the thing is is internally if you read any interviews around the time you begin to sense that they just didn't like each other it causes isolation it causes your entire lifestyle to change and at that point panta was gigantic and I had a job to do through pharmaceutical or anything to get me up on that damn stage and desperately not feel that pain I would drink an entire bottle of wild turkey before we went on to just be know which of course was affecting my performances and putting some worry into the band you know the Press speculated that all was not well with panta and it was while the band was on tour that the situation became clear on July 13th 1996 after playing a show in Dallas Phil anelo collapsed of a heroin overdose it emerged Phil was also suffering a recurring back injury which caused him severe pain and he later became addicted to painkillers so I didn't really see it but I I knew something was going on and it didn't really hit me until the night that that he passed out there at the starlex here in Dallas and I and then I was like that's what's been going on so you know you you could feel it it was a Vibe but you couldn't really tell you know they weren't they weren't speaking out about it just real uncomfortable man it was was just what the fun was gone you know the unity that we once had wasn't there at the time I didn't know anything about heroin I had no clue what it was you know you could see other projects were in the works the wheels were turning I was like what can I do after this because this is getting close to being done and you can kind of feel that everywhere fono has a drug habit that's been well publicized and that's going to cause a strain in any kind of band it's no secret that dime bag and then like to party as well but the fact is is when a band doesn't record in the same Studio they can't actually be around each other you got Phil em recording in Louisiana got the rest of the band some other place that's a sign that they really are just starting to look at their music like a product and um it's not to say that they were that cynical or uh that they were really trying to cheat anyone out of their money or anything like that but a a band that doesn't play together just isn't really a band you never knew what Phil was going to get on stage some nights you'd get the bulldog and other nights you'd get the dude on Twi well Su was or whatever he was on and laying on his back screaming in the mic you know it was embarrassing despite this turbulent time Pantera's success rolled on and Cowboys from Hell Vulgar Display of Power and far beyond driven when platinum in 1997 with Phil ancelmo attempting recovery and the rest of the band back in Arlington the remaining members busied themselves with mixing and releasing a live album official live 101 proof with Vinnie Paul now confident in a producer role this would spell the end of their long collaboration with Terry date we had a really good time going through the tapes and uh Vinnie would sit there and we'd piece it together in in the tape machine and and uh and edit it together where it would flow uh and uh he was just really good and uh and he was like man we don't I don't think we need Terry you know we can do this man we can run this place Vinnie kind of stepped up and said well I I feel like I want to produce the next record and and you know you you know he was telling dime you know you and me can produce and we'll get Sterling to engineer and and we'll just do it that way and of course I'm just sitting there going hell yeah you know here's my chance to step up so um that's uh that's pretty much what happened you know and Terry was super fine with that Phil anelo returned to panta and the band toured for the remainder of the '90s playing osfest and receiving two Grammy nominations panta saw in the New Millennium by recording and releasing Reinventing the steel much to the relief of fans but this would be pant's last album it was something else man it was uh was quite a ride uh we worked on that thing for uh about a year you know it was right out of years probably about 11 months something like that but uh it was fun yeah because it was you know no holes bar let's go uh let's do this and and we got down there every day and we'd sit down there and and chop away at this thing and make sure that it was the best that it could be you know the next the next Plateau for panta I mean it was ambitious at times and it it it just had just like this absolutely towering sort of technicality and uh uh just the obviously there's DME bags virtuosity there I mean it had all the elements of the panta album but it just didn't really have the soul you know Reinventing the still was them discovering their love for each other and their love for their influences and I think you know that that definitely could have catapulted them into the into the 2000s but you know it wasn't to be the reunion was shortlived and events soon turned sour for panta Phil and Selmo focused on down and was joined by Rex Brown on Bas a bunch of he said she said nonsense that was going on and I didn't get in the middle of it a lot of it was nothing but hor so at a certain point there's no going back you know absolutely none we were sitting there riding away two of the best musicians on the face of the Earth that play that kind of music we're sitting there and having to take it in the face no future no nothing just sitting there wondering what the is happening a war of words broke out in the press and panta officially split in 2003 I was always under the impression that that they were past their rough patch you know the whole thing with the what happened during the Train Kill Tour and I was just like man this band is just the best you know and it they'll never they'll never quit they'll keep keep going until the wheels fall off you know until till something happens you know and uh well that just wasn't the case it had a lot to do with um half the band wanting to go in One Direction and the other half of the band wanting to go in a in a completely other direction it got really confining I think for uh believe it or not for uh Vinnie and Daryl they just kind of were starting to get pigeon Hool and and pushed into a corner cor to where they they only had so much room to to write and express themselves and uh so I think there was a lot of uh that going on and create a lot of getting their creativity squashed there was a lot of stuff going on in the Press where it was obvious that things um between them were not good whatever it's just uh the problem was that the way it played out to the Press uh I think uh caused a lot of people um to uh just uh kind of think that it was just impossible for them to actually resolve their differences when I actually think it was if they had just been able to sit down in a room together if Phil could have cleaned up if um other uh members of the band might have um just just tried to intervene or something like that that would have been possible it was obvious that there was a massive Communication Breakdown you know Vinnie would come in and go well guess what happened today you know and and uh Phil would say something derogatory on the internet about Daryl and Vinnie and it just it got really hurtful you know and it was it was really starting to get on me too you know I was like what why is that dude saying those things you know that's not true and how where did this all come from to begin with I we had no idea this this guy felt like this at this point cuz after we had done the very last panta show in Japan he everybody everything was great everything was [Music] super Vinnie Paul and dimeback decided to make their s project damage plan official they recorded an album and organized a tour damage plan started in 2004 I think officially and they were sort of rising up the ranks but they were you know there was something about the sort of alchemy between Phil and the Abbott brothers that is obvious from listening to damage plan you know that didn't have it wasn't necessarily just a bad band but they were going to have I don't know if they they never were going to be as big as panta when it was release pretty much every critic including myself said it's good but will panta not just get back together already because that's what everybody wanted to have see on December 8th 2004 events at a damage plan show at alosa Villa in Columbus Ohio broke any hope of a Reconciliation the show had just started they were really they were in the first song really and I've seen the tape and it's just kind of it's weird cuz you you hear from the news reports exactly how it happened you kind of figure out in your head but then we see it on video it's it's something else 25-year-old Nathan Gail jumped on stage with a gun during the show and opened fire killing Dimebag his bodyguard Jeff Mayhem Thompson fan Nathan Bray and Club employee Erin Hulk wounding tour manager Chris Pusa and drum technician John Brooks before being shot dead by Officer James Nigam Mayhem uh Thompson their their bodyguard he was on Daryl's side of the stage but he moved over to the other side of the stage right before Nathan gaale got up there so instead of being able to head him off at the pass he was now in the position of having to chase him and nobody really you know there's stage divers at all these shows nobody really knew that was G to happen so Nathan Gale runs up on stage he gets in front of the drum Riser he pulls a gun out and puts it into you know shoot firing position Daryl had gone kind of around the side of the drum Riser he's playing his guitar he's just pairing his face just doing what he does and you know Nathan G just kind of surprised him put him a headlock shot him in the head and then shot him as he went to the ground shot him again and he SE on the tap Chris Bosa their uh tour manager he runs out to try to stop him he gets shot in the chest Mayhem runs over to stop him he gets shot too um and then there's silence and it's just pretty eerie and they're they go they kind of off stage and uh you look at the crowd and the crowd like for the most part I mean I think they just thought it was a joke I thought there was it was a big goof and you know you see the gun go off it almost looks like a cap gun there's a little bit of smoke but it just doesn't seem real I mean I've never had a gun fired around me like that before and maybe it was you know they see the you kind of see the fans and they kind of have this kind of like some kind of even laughing because they don't know what's going on but there's um there people up front who kind of see what's going on one of them climbs over the barrier and he he goes to try to help uh I think he thought he was helping Daryl but uh it was Mayhem laying on on the stage and uh he gets shot too and then it's quiet again and this whole thing takes 3 minutes and few more shots get fired off and then there's a huge boom and it's uh officer Nigam and he had blown off I guess he had blown off Nathan G's head with a shotgun he had one of the panta crew and a headlock and he was I think trying to get out the back with a hostage Niger comes running to where the camera had been set up and he's like you guys are all my Witnesses I had to do it he's I mean he's not a cop at that point he's just like a freaked out 31y old guy who just shot a man to do it sa man's probably from about 2:00 in the morning to about 7:00 in the morning morning I bet I got a dozen phone calls from different people different tours different you know bands that I had worked with that somebody had just found out and they were calling everybody that they knew and you no sleep that night it was amazing to me how much that affected me at that point I felt like it was just devastating and the first person I wanted to call was Terry glaze and I called him and he had heard about it and he was calling all the people he knew cuz we were all frantically trying to figure out what was cuz all we were getting is from the news and this was early in the morning I guess it happened at what 2 or something in the morning Ohio time and this was about 6:00 in the morning here when the news was really starting to cover it around here and was and at that point we didn't know if he was dead or not he would there was speculation that he was still alive that he had survived it and so we were just frantically calling each other and I actually called Rex and Rex was like dude I haven't talked to you in 12 years and and I'm like yeah but I need to know what's going on and so it was amazing how we all kind of came together it hurt and and I was really surprised cuz I hadn't really talked to Daryl in probably five years and but like I said it felt like I just was seeing flashes of the kid that I played with in the 80s and it was like I couldn't believe it he died with a guitar in his hands in the middle of like a a solo so I don't think he would have you know he died doing what he loves and had no idea it was coming I mean I think he was dead before he even hit the ground even though he got shot a few more times I think Nathan Gale had rushed the stage at a Cincinnati show like months before and they had had to drag him off the stage and they didn't find a gun on him at that point but he knocked over some lighting equipment and caused a few thousand worth of damage damage plan guys decided to not press charges cuz they didn't really want to to go up with the hassle couple thousand bucks it wasn't a big deal I don't know if that would have stopped what happened I mean I don't know if he would have just got a slap on the wrist or whatever he was just crazy I mean he used to tell people that panta stole lyrics from him I don't think the security situation would have changed much I he hopped the fence anyway if that guy wanted to do something like that he would have found a way Dimebag Daryl Abbott was buried in MO Memorial Garden cemeter Arlington in a themed kiss casket donated by Jean Simmons a public memorial service was attended by thousands of fans and his private funeral by his Heroes you hear the stories at darl's funeral when um Eddie Van Halen showed up and he actually had a phone call that he had left on his voicemail from Daryl cuz Daryl and Vince went went and saw them play in I believe it was leic they played a show in leic and Eddie played it and but you can tell that Daryl sounded like this this little kid that was just like you're you're the best Eddie you're the best it was great it was a magical show it was awesome Terry and I were standing at at the funeral and when Eddie was up there talking I leaned over to Terry and told him I said you know what I can promise you if Daryl would have known back in the day that Eddie Van Halen was going to speak at his funeral he said shoot me now I want to be dead because he is so in love with d Van Halen and it was it was very powerful that Eddie was there and it was it was it was an amazing thing to see him and see how he spoke of Daryl we knew darl was a great guitar player but we didn't know he had the respect that he did across the industry throughout his life Dimebag had been a champion of Dean guitars and even collaborated with the company on his own range of signature guitars he was to be buried with his first ever Dean guitar which he won in a competition when he was 14 Eddie Van Halen had other ideas Eddie Van Halen showed up with a black charl that he had the black guitar that many people have seen with the yellow stripes on it he showed up with that and they actually laid it in the casket with him that was breaking down and and I was going wow I said this is amazing I'm sitting here crying and I don't even you know I haven't talked to him in that long but it was we were you realize how close we really were even though we far apart that became more evident when I saw Vince at the funeral we were both of us just broke down when we saw each other and it was it was pretty pretty [Music] emotional it was clear that Dimebag was well- loved respected and missed a good old Texas Boy Who Loved music and stayed a true fan at heart he was just the most funloving genuinely nice guy I mean he was just he won't say he was a saint but he was just you know just love life love people it was just you know talk to you know 50 people and they all just loved them he just ring later didn't really ever have a a bad word for anybody when he was up there doing a solo and he's just playing this ear ringing blood curling solos but he had a small face and I think that's what Drew people to him is he always just was happy a happy guy darl you could just tell he just loved the crowd and he thank you could just tell he thanked them when I covered his memorial service in Arlington I I went through the line I was originally supposed to do some kind of man on the street thing and you know sort of gauge reaction why people were out here and I few thousand people online and I talk to few dozen every single person had a story like a person personal story about drinking with Daryl at a bar doing shots with him not just like I saw him at starlex and it was awesome it was like Daryl came to see my band and we did shots Daryl came into this bar I work at you know story after Story was All These Guys these big name guys guys from Anthrax Aussie you know Jews priests and each one of them had a story of how Daryl pranked him in some form or fashion and I was like I could come up there and give you a long list of the pranks he used to do back in when we were in high school but if I'm just sitting here doing something like this you know and I'll be sitting here doing my thing and I'll look over here and I've got this little picture of dime right here so I can stare at it sometimes and I'll giggle cuz I'll think of something he did you know just it's silly stuff but uh you know there was there was a lot of good times man a lot of good times as V Paul had only ever played in a band with his brother it was unclear whether he would ever play in another band again he bounced back with a new band hell yeah and returned to the studio to record an album the first night was the hardest of any had a real rough time uh just uh ju the minutes leading up to when we were actually going to start recording and I I was I wasn't as bad off as Vinnie cuz he was like really upset at first not upset but he was like trying to calm himself you know his nerves and everything and uh I was kind of doing the same that first night was absolutely magical I mean immediately it was like magic and all the music just started flowing night after night after night and it was a very magical experience too uh for for all of us you know all everybody else included it was just it was something else to watch watch them just sit in there and jam and then within hours have a complete song another one of them cold chills moments you know when you know someone's look looking over your shoulder you know someone's there with you you and it was it was really really cool [Music] experience dimebag's Life and Legacy is celebrated in Dallas each year with the annual ride for dime a charity motorbike ride and concert organized by friends the ride for dime idea came up like in March of 2005 there was a few of us on the damage plan.net message board that wanted to find some way to honor uh Daryl when somebody mentioned well why don't we do a motorcycle ride and see if we can raise a little money we put it towards the Dimebag memorial fund on August 20th 2005 we had our very first ride and we noticed that once the ride was over with suddenly we started getting all these inquiries about it you know why didn't we know about we want to be part of it uh and they said you know what about us people without motorcycles how can we be a part of it so we decided Well you know let's add a concert to it next year it's a way for us here locally uh us motorcyclists to uh uh remember uh a dime bag and some of the other people that that have perished that day in fact one of the guys uh that died with a dime bag on stage was a member of the Clear Channel radio family here in Dallas uh uh Jeff Mayhem Thompson being able to tribu tize them and remember them with the ride for dime is is pretty special for for us uh Texan residents you know to and motorcyclist and uh it gives us a chance to uh to give back to to something that dime would have been appreciative of is uh the little kids rock and that's and that's a an organization that uh helps put uh music back where it belongs which is in the public schools we left uh stroker's ice house which is also a a local motorcycle dealer kind of a cool place to hang out and uh meet up with your other biker friends we got on the freeway uh they close to Strokers and we uh High tailed it out to Arlington once we got to Arlington we got picked up by a police escort and uh they took us in into town we actually passed by the cemetery and everybody carries roses with them and as we past the cemetery gates of the cemetery we all toss flowers in honor of Dimebag and we we have designated person that'll gather up all those Roses after we pass and places them on the grave and uh you know everybody knows that's that's ride for dime was here Cemetery Gates was a Grammy nominated song uh written by panta and it just kind of poetic to to be able to do that and I I know that song is going through everybody's mind as we're passing in front of the cemetery then we went looped around through town again with the police escort and uh landed up at that massive club called Cowboys in Arlington great place to uh to uh um bring the motorcycle uh ride for dime to ahead and party down like rock stars we are it it kind of signifies everything that dying bag did I mean he was a very caring and loving person this is the way we can continue that you know through through ride for dime uh getting he loved education for for kids music education there's been stories where there's a little kid at a autograph signing session said he had a guitar on layway his dad's going to buy it for him for Christmas dime made sure that that kid had that guitar before he left the store that day he said don't wait till Christmas start now so he was all about music education for kids so that uh hopefully through rodford Dy we can continue that dream of his pant's Legacy is in their own signature sound they stay loved and respected because they stuck to their guns and would not adapt to the trends of the moment they were loyal to their fans because essentially they were fans themselves in a of their Heroes even though they stood side by side with them on stage pant's songs are anthems their Antics legendary and their style has influenced a new generation of musicians panta were inimitable that isn't to say that they didn't have countless imitators they didn't really have to respond to to trends that were out there or other music that was happening because what they were doing was really unique even when you listen to it now there's a timelessness to it you know there's a Vitality to the music that still exists and it's the same thing you get when you listen to songs by Sabbath you listen to things by priest whatever and panta have added so many to that store Classics to to kind of uh what are considered like Metals essential hits there was a lot of changes going on in the music business during that time and they did they they didn't try to go with the changes they were the changes that's one of the the biggest tributes you could you could give to those guys is that everybody changed wanted to be in my opinion I don't think anybody can top it nobody can top panta they were The Originators of this push an envelope to to a certain point which opened the door for many other bands to pursue the same type of music uh but you know panta was the one that started it all and that that's going to be their legacy it's some some of the best musicians you've ever heard I mean I would put Vince against any drummer out there I put Daryl obviously was one of the greatest guitar players ever I think they'll be remembered as the fans band the the the band that that the fans latched on to and just kind of stayed true and blue with them the whole way through they were so accessible to the fans I mean they even when they were big you know they'd get off the bus instead of running into the venue to get inside he like there might be 10 kids there might be a 100 kids but you know at least one of them had run over and make an appearance sign some autographs you know possibly the heaviest heavy metal band and and one of the most quintessential what a heavy metal band should be all in all some of the nicest guys that you know you would ever want to go on the road and tour with they they created something that had far more weight than anything a lot of those other bands uh could could really invent because uh they were just talented music musicians you know and it was just a it it it's just like all the elements were there it was it was an explosive combination and they created something that will never happen again they really kept metal alive and they directly influenced so many of those bands that were on o Fest like you know every band that's on headbanger's ball huge panta fans they're the ones you panta in many instances is the band that got them into playing metal they're simply cannot be a metal band today that hasn't listened to panta and either responded to it or tried to emulate them at some level um that's the thing I mean they they're absolutely pervasive they're one of the biggest bands ever and if you're not trying to consciously mimic what diag did on the guitar you're probably try not to sound like what d bag did on the guitar so as far as their influence um it it cannot be [Music] overestimated Mach through the night destroy and [Music] f [Music] death always

Channel: Scott Barrett

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Keywords: Pantera (Musical Group), Thrash Metal (Musical Genre), Groove Metal (Musical Genre), Film (Media Genre), Dimebag Darrell (Composer)

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Length: 67min 24sec (4044 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 17 2013