RIP Dime

[Rocker123]

6 years ago today, we lost one of metals greatest guitarists.
Getcha Pull.

 

[SocialNumb]

Yearly RIP incoming.

 

[LeSedna]

6 years ago, ALREADY ?

aw I'm getting old, and also, I'm not that better than 6 years ago at guitar playing !

 

[Jind]

6 years ago, ALREADY ?

aw I'm getting old, and also, I'm not that better than 6 years ago at guitar playing !

^^^This - you'd think by now I'd have improved over where I was six years ago, but in truth I actually might have slid backwards as I don't play as often as I used to.

But anyway - RIP Dime.

 

[Boerboel666]

 

[LeSedna]

^^^This - you'd think by now I'd have improved over where I was six years ago, but in truth I actually might have slid backwards as I don't play as often as I used to.

But anyway - RIP Dime.

I's like I have built my guitar playing ground during the first 1 or 2 years. Hopefully, I did still have many time for random stuff and I got inside guitar pretty quickly. The last 5/6 years have been occasional playing and maturing my playing, sometimes just by overthinking it instead of physically training.

I need to train more.

RIP to one of my favourite guitarists ever. I still own a Dean he had too, a 50ex special series that I know he had number 50. Mine is 23

 

[PhilTheBeard]

RIP dime i still jam to all of the stuff he has ever done. Def one of my fav guitar players ever

 

[Dimaura]

 

[guitarguru777]

I will tell this story like I do every year with my Blacktooth held high and say I miss ya brother!

Dime got my first band signed. He single handedly gave me the confidence to get out there in front of 20,000 screaming mother fuckers and rock the fuck out!

We met Dime in 1994 after a show Pantera played at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale NY. We went to the closest titty bar we could fins after the show and after about 2 hours Dime, Rex Big Val, and Vinny walked in. We sent over a round of drinks just to say thank you for putting on an amazing show. No sooner then the drinks got to the table Dime came walking over and asked us to join them. (FYI, I just started tearing up as I am typing this...lol I am such a fag ...lol)

So we all sat around bullshitting for about another hour. We got into discussing music and playing guitar and his rig, bla bla bla. He asked about my band and if we had a demo. I said yes and he said he wanted to hear it. He gave me his address on a napkin and said send it to him. Well it turns out I have one in the car I said to him. He immediately grabs me by the arm and heads for the door.

Now you have to realize at this time Dime was my biggest influence. i mean EVERYTHING I played then was Pantera / Dime inspired in one way or another so just getting to meet him was a huge deal.

So I put the demo on and him and big val are headbanging and getting into it. it gets to the solo, and he looks at me and goes "Dude fucking play that shit again!". So i back up the tape, and play it again. He fucking jumps in my car grabs the fucking tape and puts it in his pocket. He says ... DUDE THIS SHIT IS AWESOME! I am going to give it to my people ....

So I'm like Ok whatever ....

3 months, 6 months, a year goes by and we dont hear anything. All of the sudden out of the blue I get a phone call from this guy Ron at ATCO. He tells me they really aren't picking up any new bands but that he made a promise to Dime that he would find a place for us. about a week later I get a call from this guy saying hes with Roadrunner and they are willing to do a deal for bla bla bla .... The rest is history.

The following summer we head out to summer NAMM and I am at the washburn booth checking out Dimes shit and this fucking dude jumps on my back. Im like WTF ready to kill a mother fucker and its Dime laughing his ass off. Hes like " Dude you never sent me that fucking demo". I told him its cause he stole the one out of my car, and hes all like "Well ya man I gave that to my peeps I need shit to listen too ya know". Well we hung out at NAMM all weekend exchanged numbers and all that jazz....

We kept in touch right up until the Damage Plan Album came out, he got busy with shit, and so did I moving on to a normal career. but he was always awesome. I had heard through the grape vine what had happened witin an hour, so I called Vinny and left a message, he called me back that night and told me what happened. I was in total shock and just cried for hours.

I really do miss him... He was a great man, not just as a guitarist, but as a person. He could see right into your soul and know what it took to make you feel like a million bucks. If it wasn't for him I never would have had a career in music.

Thank you my friend.

I still see Vinny from time to time here in Vegas, and we just talk about the good times.

 

[Harry Hughes]

^That's a really awesome story man
He just seemed like such a great guy from the way everyone that's met him talks about him.

I'm gonna listen to that outro of Floods on repeat for a while.
Really beautiful and sad sounding at the same time, powerful stuff.
RIP Dime.

 

[muckypup1]

I will tell this story like I do every year with my Blacktooth held high and say I miss ya brother!

Dime got my first band signed. He single handedly gave me the confidence to get out there in front of 20,000 screaming mother fuckers and rock the fuck out!

We met Dime in 1994 after a show Pantera played at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale NY. We went to the closest titty bar we could fins after the show and after about 2 hours Dime, Rex Big Val, and Vinny walked in. We sent over a round of drinks just to say thank you for putting on an amazing show. No sooner then the drinks got to the table Dime came walking over and asked us to join them. (FYI, I just started tearing up as I am typing this...lol I am such a fag ...lol)

So we all sat around bullshitting for about another hour. We got into discussing music and playing guitar and his rig, bla bla bla. He asked about my band and if we had a demo. I said yes and he said he wanted to hear it. He gave me his address on a napkin and said send it to him. Well it turns out I have one in the car I said to him. He immediately grabs me by the arm and heads for the door.

Now you have to realize at this time Dime was my biggest influence. i mean EVERYTHING I played then was Pantera / Dime inspired in one way or another so just getting to meet him was a huge deal.

So I put the demo on and him and big val are headbanging and getting into it. it gets to the solo, and he looks at me and goes "Dude fucking play that shit again!". So i back up the tape, and play it again. He fucking jumps in my car grabs the fucking tape and puts it in his pocket. He says ... DUDE THIS SHIT IS AWESOME! I am going to give it to my people ....

So I'm like Ok whatever ....

3 months, 6 months, a year goes by and we dont hear anything. All of the sudden out of the blue I get a phone call from this guy Ron at ATCO. He tells me they really aren't picking up any new bands but that he made a promise to Dime that he would find a place for us. about a week later I get a call from this guy saying hes with Roadrunner and they are willing to do a deal for bla bla bla .... The rest is history.

The following summer we head out to summer NAMM and I am at the washburn booth checking out Dimes shit and this fucking dude jumps on my back. Im like WTF ready to kill a mother fucker and its Dime laughing his ass off. Hes like " Dude you never sent me that fucking demo". I told him its cause he stole the one out of my car, and hes all like "Well ya man I gave that to my peeps I need shit to listen too ya know". Well we hung out at NAMM all weekend exchanged numbers and all that jazz....

We kept in touch right up until the Damage Plan Album came out, he got busy with shit, and so did I moving on to a normal career. but he was always awesome. I had heard through the grape vine what had happened witin an hour, so I called Vinny and left a message, he called me back that night and told me what happened. I was in total shock and just cried for hours.

I really do miss him... He was a great man, not just as a guitarist, but as a person. He could see right into your soul and know what it took to make you feel like a million bucks. If it wasn't for him I never would have had a career in music.

Thank you my friend.

I still see Vinny from time to time here in Vegas, and we just talk about the good times.

Cool story man, Its such a shame what happened to him I worshipped him since i was 5 years old, when i heard he had been killed, It was painful, i never physically knew him but after years of constant ear abuse from his music and then learning guitar because of him, then some motherfucker killing him, it still upsets me.

R.I.P Dime

 

[P-E]

^ Exactly what you've said. (Well what Harry said)

 

[muckypup1]

^That's a really awesome story man
He just seemed like such a great guy from the way everyone that's met him talks about him.

I'm gonna listen to that outro of Floods on repeat for a while.
Really beautiful and sad sounding at the same time, powerful stuff.
RIP Dime.

Same, i used to listen to that song so much, it was the intro that really caught my ear though, it was so different to the usual pantera/dime style solos and riffing, the usual songs to smash stuff and people up to haha, Floods showed a different side to them, so did Hollow. i tried learning it but i failed

 

[guitarguru777]

Seriously, to listen to him and see him on vid's on youtube I can tell you that was him dude! All killer no filler!

Its great to see everyone still remembering him, and I know for sure that if he were alive today and able to reach out and meet every single one of you he would do it in a second. He was a fan before he was a musician.

We had a convo once about how big of an influence he was on me, and how much I worshiped him when I had first met him. He literally turned to me and said ... Jason, Dude I can totally relate to that but like Eddie told me. I am just a man, shut the fuck up and jam!

He was so fucking awesome in every way I can think of. I still have some of the stuff he gave me over the years. No autographs and shit like that, but they sit in my bed room just so I am always thinking about how much he changed my life.

 

[neverpurify]

also john lennon 30 yrs ago. didn't want to make a new thread about it. if it's already been posted I apologize.

 

[FloridaRolf]

Over the last few years I didn't listen much to Pantera, but I am still amazed by his style of playing guitar. All the riffing is just unique

 

[Sickan]

Getcha pull!

 

[Randyisgod15]

R.I.P. Dime. I made this tribute out of random videos I had on my hard drive for the first anniversary of his death. At the time I had little experience in audio/video so it's by no means professional, but it meant a lot to me at the time. I may have shared this here before, I can't remember.

I remember the day he died was in my junior year of high school, and I was working on a history project in the computer lab. I was listening to Pantera in my headphones, but said fuck it and just blasted it through the monitor's speakers. The teacher came up to me to reprimand me, but I told him what happened and he let me blast it for the rest of the class (I had previously let him borrow my Iron Maiden DVD, so I know he had to respect). Cool dude. I will never forget that day, nor the legend who passed on it. Live on brother Dime

 

[arv_foh]

RIP Dime... and also the others that died: Erin Halk, Nathan Bray, and Jeff Thompson.

I'll never forget watching you and Vinnie soundcheck with "Walk" for the last time ever

 

[SentencedToBurn]

RIP

its a damn joke that vh1's "most shocking moments in music" didnt even include dimebags death. Dimebags murder is THE MOST shocking thing to ever happen in music, let alone metal. His murder and john lennons murder are number 1 and 2. Its unbelievable what happened to him. I was huge pantera fan for years. awesome shit.