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art, music, etc. / Re: Pantera - Domination
« on: September 23, 2023, 03:47:41 PM »
The Pantera reunion. 
Some people were pissing their pants with glee at the notion. Others wanted no part of it. I was somewhere in the middle, remaining curious. To be honest, I was leaning more towards wanting no part of it though. Dime and Vinny before each of their deaths made it abundantly clear that Pantera getting back together was never gonna happen. And once you do a little research into the person of vocalist Philip Anselmo, it's pretty obvious that his personality grated on the Abbott brothers until it was finally more than even someone as wild and crazy as THEY WERE could put up with. Don't get me wrong, I love all the music Pantera did (even Great Southern Trendkill), I loved Down, I love Superjoint... eh, not so much Anselmo's other various projects. But... they guy is just a massive DICK. He's got this thing where he always feels like he needs to put on that he's the biggest alpha dog of the cell block. He does shit in interviews just to try and intimidate people for no reason (moreso in the past, he's cooled it a little bit on that with age I'd say, but he still does it). I've known guys like him, and as much as you love them and enjoy hanging out when they're being cool, inevitably they can't help themselves and they gotta go into bi-polar mode and start smashing your buttons. And they think that because you don't react by knocking the living shit out of them that they've somehow intimidated you. It's a silly childish game they play. Anyway... yeah, Anselmo's a dick.
Zakk Wylde, as cool as he is, just doesn't have the same groove that Dime did. He plays some of the songs really close, but it stills sounds like him all the way through.
That fuckin VIBRATO though. It's his thing. There's no losing that wacked out Zakk Wylde vibrato I guess. It sounds out of place in Pantera.
It's a "when the hell will I get this chance again?" kinda thing, and even though I know the whole thing probably makes Dime spin in his grave... I was still considering going to the show when it hit Atlanta, especially since Mastodon was also going to be there. I LOVE MASTODON. But after seeing this... yeah I don't think I missed much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlB-LzSSNQ
Some people were pissing their pants with glee at the notion. Others wanted no part of it. I was somewhere in the middle, remaining curious. To be honest, I was leaning more towards wanting no part of it though. Dime and Vinny before each of their deaths made it abundantly clear that Pantera getting back together was never gonna happen. And once you do a little research into the person of vocalist Philip Anselmo, it's pretty obvious that his personality grated on the Abbott brothers until it was finally more than even someone as wild and crazy as THEY WERE could put up with. Don't get me wrong, I love all the music Pantera did (even Great Southern Trendkill), I loved Down, I love Superjoint... eh, not so much Anselmo's other various projects. But... they guy is just a massive DICK. He's got this thing where he always feels like he needs to put on that he's the biggest alpha dog of the cell block. He does shit in interviews just to try and intimidate people for no reason (moreso in the past, he's cooled it a little bit on that with age I'd say, but he still does it). I've known guys like him, and as much as you love them and enjoy hanging out when they're being cool, inevitably they can't help themselves and they gotta go into bi-polar mode and start smashing your buttons. And they think that because you don't react by knocking the living shit out of them that they've somehow intimidated you. It's a silly childish game they play. Anyway... yeah, Anselmo's a dick.
Zakk Wylde, as cool as he is, just doesn't have the same groove that Dime did. He plays some of the songs really close, but it stills sounds like him all the way through.
That fuckin VIBRATO though. It's his thing. There's no losing that wacked out Zakk Wylde vibrato I guess. It sounds out of place in Pantera.
It's a "when the hell will I get this chance again?" kinda thing, and even though I know the whole thing probably makes Dime spin in his grave... I was still considering going to the show when it hit Atlanta, especially since Mastodon was also going to be there. I LOVE MASTODON. But after seeing this... yeah I don't think I missed much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlB-LzSSNQ
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