Dimebag Darrell

Dimebag Darrell

Dimebag Darrell (born August 20, 1966 in Dallas , Texas , † December 8, 2004 in Columbus , Ohio ; real name Darrell Lance Abbott , until 1992 known as Diamond Darrell ) was an American guitarist . He became known as a member of the groove metal band Pantera , where his brother Vinnie Paul played drums, and was the son of country producer and composer Jerry Abbott .

Life

Dimebag Darrell initially played drums , but soon switched to electric guitar . His role models were guitarists like Ace Frehley , Tony Iommi and Eddie Van Halen , and he was also a fan of German metal bands such as Accept .

As a teenager, he usually practiced his instrument for several hours a day and over time won a large number of local talent competitions, from which he was ultimately excluded in order to give other young musicians a chance.

In the 1980s Darrell gave himself the name Dimebag, which alludes to the smallest sachets that can be bought at drug dealers.

Dimebag Darrell (until 1994 also Diamond Darrell ) became known as a founding member of the neo-thrash metal band Pantera. After the release of the 1988 album "Power Metal" Megadeth tried to win Darell as a guitarist, but he turned it down because he only wanted to accept the offer together with his brother Vinnie as a drummer.

With Pantera, Dimebag Darrell could look back on over ten million records sold between 1983 and 2000 and four Grammy nominations. In 1996 he denounced in an interview that in the music business it is always more about the show than the real technical ability.

After the dissolution of Pantera in 2003, Dimebag Darrell was active in the band Damageplan , which he and his brother Vinnie Paul founded .

Darrell died on December 8, 2004 at a Damageplan concert at the Alrosa Villa Club in Columbus after Nathan Gale of Marysville , Ohio fired at least four shots at the guitarist. The gunman continued to fire aimlessly and met other people present. Only a fatal shot from the gun of an incoming police officer could stop Gale. A total of four people died and two other people were seriously injured and hospitalized. Dimebag Darrell was buried in the "Moore Memorial Gardens" cemetery in Arlington, Texas in a coffin designed by the rock band Kiss ( the Kiss Kasket ). Eddie van Halen put his second Frankenstrat guitar in the grave as an addition.

Posthumously published in 2006 by Rebel Meets Rebel album, which is the result of an earlier collaboration between Dimebag Darrell and other former Pantera musicians with David Allan Coe , an outlaw - Country musician is.

Betrayed by Avenged Sevenfold is about the death of Darrell and is dedicated to it. Nickelback released the single Side of a Bullet in 2007 , which is about the assassination of Dimebag Darrell. Black Label Society dedicated their song "In This River" to Dimebag Darrell. On the album The Blackening of Machine Head is found with the piece Aesthetics of Hate a reply to William Grim; Dimebag Darrell had previously massively attacked in an article in various ways. Blaze Bayley dedicates the song Dimebag to Darrell . EyeHateGod dedicated the 2005 compilation album Preaching the “End-Time” Message to Darrell .

The Rolling Stone Magazine leads Dimebag Darrell at number 92 of its list of the 100 greatest guitarists and explains: "One of the leading lights of modern metal". The pieces "Floods", "Cemetery Gates" and "Mouth for War" are referenced.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Dimebag Darrell. The best of the best. In: Metal Hammer. Special issue No. 1/2012: History of Metal. P. 75.
2. ↑ taz.de - The Ohio Metal Massacre
3. ↑ metal-hammer.de - On the anniversary of Dimebag Darrell's death
4. ↑ feelnumb.com
5. ^ EyeHateGod - Preaching the "End-Time" Message. Liner notes
6. ↑ rollingstone.com: The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - Dimebag Darrell English. Retrieved July 6, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Dimebag Darrell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official site of Damageplan with obituary [offline since January 28, 2017]