The first three years or so after that were a definite blur. It’s so hard to believe it’s been 10 years. I remember Ozzy and Sharon sent a beautiful arrangement made out of Crown Royal bags and the Slayer guys sent a flower arrangement in the shape of a Crown Royal bottle. It was like Darrell was there, throwing one more party for everyone. It was such a weird day, but the feeling of family was so wonderful. I was worried that the coffin stand was gonna collapse! The pallbearers definitely complained about how heavy the coffin was. There were so many things in there - and people kept putting airplane bottles of Crown in there during the service. Zakk Wylde said there was plenty of Crown Royal and Seagrams 7 in his coffin as well. Ozzy Osbourne Talks Black Sabbath’s ‘Last Hurrah’ & Return to Solo Material Eddie said, “I can’t go in there, I can’t see him like that - I want to remember him like he was that night I met him.” I said, “That’s okay, Eddie - we’ll take it to him,” so John and I went in and placed it with him. We got to the room where Dime was, and you could see feet through the doorway. We were walking down the hallway of the funeral parlor, me, Eddie and John “Bushman,” who had been out with Damageplan as a tech - he’s the one who dragged Vinnie off the drum stand and threw himself on top of him to protect him. He said, “An original should have an original.” When he came for the funeral, he brought his original yellow and black from 1979. He said, “One of the red, white and black ones?” And I said, “No - Darrell always said that the yellow and black was your toughest guitar!” So I asked him if he’d stripe up a guitar for Darrell. We’d met him just a few weeks earlier for the first time, and Dime was ready to cut him a $30,000 check that night for one of his striped guitars, but Eddie told him he’d do one special for him. Three hours later, Eddie called to see if he could do anything for us and for Dime. I remember talking with Vinnie, trying to decide what guitar to bury him with. What was the story of Eddie Van Halen bringing the guitar to Dimebag’s funeral? Van Halen’s ‘1984’ At 30: Classic Track-By-Track Review One night, Darrell and Philip were getting stoned and Philip just started calling him “Dimebag” and it stuck! He was always calling up Darrell to ask if he had any weed, or knew anyone who could get him some. He’d moved to Texas from New Orleans when he joined the band, totally committed, and he didn’t really know anybody at first. Where did Darrell get the nickname “Dimebag”?Īnselmo gave it to him. And when Cowboys came out, that was really all them. But when Philip joined the band, Darrell really had an ally for taking the band in a harder and more personal direction. Their dad was their manager at the time, and he really wanted them to play safe - play music that was commercial - and Vinnie felt the same way. It’s funny, I had the early Pantera albums out just the other day, and Darrell’s playing is really great on them, but you can hear all his favorite bands at the time in his playing - KISS, Def Leppard, UFO. We became friends with those boys and they were a big influence on Darrell. There were maybe 30 people there and I was one of maybe three females. We saw them play some little place in Texarkana on the Kill ‘Em All tour, right after Kirk joined the band. Do you remember what motivated that change? Pantera started out playing more mainstream “hair metal,” then switched to a heavier direction around the time Phil Anselmo joined the band. Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ Hits 16 Million in Sales He was so much like his mom in so many ways, while Vinnie really took after their dad. She had an incredible work ethic, which Darrell picked up from her. She worked a lot of different jobs - cleaning, assembly line, things like that. His dad Jerry worked at a recording studio. But we had KISS in common from the beginning. Oh, yes - that wasn’t for another three or four years.
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