the world is a little less metal...
my brother got home on wednesday night around midnight and called my cell, as i was in bed and he was downstairs and he says "did you hear about dimebag darrel?" and i say "huh" and he says "dimebag was murdered onstage tonite" and i say no way and he tells me to come look at the proof online.. and sure enough it was true and i was pretty much in shock for a little while. i called matt and mike and told them then i called dave makeshift, as he was the only person who would understand the sorrow over how the world had just gotten a little less metal.
dave: "i mean, who shoots dimebag? he never did anything to anyone.... except wail."
me: "yea, he never hurt anyone, he just shredded."
and shred he did... at band practice last night i threw as many unecessary solos into every song possible... they have been playing pantera every hour on the our on WSOU and when they first played "cemetary gates" it was very sad. I was never like a huge pantera fan, but the 1st time i heard "cemetary gates" will always stick in my mind.. i just remember that it was the most evil sounding and menacing riff i had ever heard.. and it was just so amazing sounding.. and it was a little while before i got the cowboys from hell album (mind you i was like 11 here where im talking about) and whenever i would hear the song it just struck something in me. it just felt so dark and i loved it, whenever i heard it all i could picture was a cemetary with the dead rising to kill the living, and mind you, and i was little then and it was a pretty dark image to have and it sort of was frightening but i still loved it and wanted more. to this day when i listen to that song i just love it, the main riff right when the band comes in just brings a feeling in me, and few songs do that. if i had to make a list i'd say thats the 2nd best riff ever (second only to "south of heaven" by slayer of course).. and it's not like that was just one song that was amazing, Dimebag's guitar playing was always just phenomenal, he was without question one of the best hard rock guitarists to ever live... aside from kerry king and jeff hanneman and say kirk hammet, there are few guitarists who just convey the image of Metal. Dimebag was FUCKING METAL. and along with the aforementioned, there arent really any other guitarists who just emodied everything about shredding. he fucking shredded.. i mean there are guitarists like Buckethead or such who are amazing and are fucking liquid fingers and play so fast it's ridiculous, and they are amazing and the speed they have is beyond comprehension... but there is something about, or rather somehting about Dimebag's playing that made it deserve the title of "shredding".. when iw as driving my mom to work yesterday and explaining to her who Dimebag was and why this isnt just a band's member getting killed, "Cemetary Gates" was being played on Krock and as the main riff came on i just turned it up and said "THIS is why it's so sad.."
and sad it is.
and i mean, if he had been shot like somewhere else or at a bar or something even it would still suck but it wouldnt feel the way it does, the fact that he was murdered on stage is like, just really disturbing.. although that is a really fuckin' metal death, but it's not worth it of course, the idea of dying onstage may seem romantic in some ways, but to be murdered by some fuckin psychotic fan isnt the way to go.. and i mean what is this, norway?
but we can all assume he is on a brimstone mountain in hell right now shredding for satan's pleasure, where he will remain forever... shredding... providing the soundtrack to what goes on down there... or on a cloud shredding, whichever you prefer...
shred in peace dimebag... shred in peace.
*dive bomb pinch harmonic in elegy*
(to build on dave's memorial)
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dave: "i mean, who shoots dimebag? he never did anything to anyone.... except wail."
me: "yea, he never hurt anyone, he just shredded."
and shred he did... at band practice last night i threw as many unecessary solos into every song possible... they have been playing pantera every hour on the our on WSOU and when they first played "cemetary gates" it was very sad. I was never like a huge pantera fan, but the 1st time i heard "cemetary gates" will always stick in my mind.. i just remember that it was the most evil sounding and menacing riff i had ever heard.. and it was just so amazing sounding.. and it was a little while before i got the cowboys from hell album (mind you i was like 11 here where im talking about) and whenever i would hear the song it just struck something in me. it just felt so dark and i loved it, whenever i heard it all i could picture was a cemetary with the dead rising to kill the living, and mind you, and i was little then and it was a pretty dark image to have and it sort of was frightening but i still loved it and wanted more. to this day when i listen to that song i just love it, the main riff right when the band comes in just brings a feeling in me, and few songs do that. if i had to make a list i'd say thats the 2nd best riff ever (second only to "south of heaven" by slayer of course).. and it's not like that was just one song that was amazing, Dimebag's guitar playing was always just phenomenal, he was without question one of the best hard rock guitarists to ever live... aside from kerry king and jeff hanneman and say kirk hammet, there are few guitarists who just convey the image of Metal. Dimebag was FUCKING METAL. and along with the aforementioned, there arent really any other guitarists who just emodied everything about shredding. he fucking shredded.. i mean there are guitarists like Buckethead or such who are amazing and are fucking liquid fingers and play so fast it's ridiculous, and they are amazing and the speed they have is beyond comprehension... but there is something about, or rather somehting about Dimebag's playing that made it deserve the title of "shredding".. when iw as driving my mom to work yesterday and explaining to her who Dimebag was and why this isnt just a band's member getting killed, "Cemetary Gates" was being played on Krock and as the main riff came on i just turned it up and said "THIS is why it's so sad.."
and sad it is.
and i mean, if he had been shot like somewhere else or at a bar or something even it would still suck but it wouldnt feel the way it does, the fact that he was murdered on stage is like, just really disturbing.. although that is a really fuckin' metal death, but it's not worth it of course, the idea of dying onstage may seem romantic in some ways, but to be murdered by some fuckin psychotic fan isnt the way to go.. and i mean what is this, norway?
but we can all assume he is on a brimstone mountain in hell right now shredding for satan's pleasure, where he will remain forever... shredding... providing the soundtrack to what goes on down there... or on a cloud shredding, whichever you prefer...
shred in peace dimebag... shred in peace.
*dive bomb pinch harmonic in elegy*
(to build on dave's memorial)
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