sumthing i found on Fuse's website...
We get reactions from Charlie Benante (Anthrax), Mikey Doling (Snot/Soulfly), Mark Hunter (Chimaira) and Scott Ian (Anthrax)...
Charlie Benante From Anthrax phone call with Uranium
12/9/04
This is going back a couple of years. I went to Dimes house and I was staying with him. Two days prior to that someone dropped off a goat on his doorstep randomly. And Dime painted the goat’s goatee pink like his. There was this goat running around his house with a pink goatee and I’m like what the hell? Why would I say what the hell? I would expect something like that from him.
We may have to skip over Dallas. I’m sorry Dallas but it might have to happen. I am totally devastated by this. I can only imagine what Vinnie is going through, Rita you know? It is so sad, so devastating. The things that bother me about this situation is that Dime didn’t have a chance to fight back or anything. This guy just came and took it all away from him. That’s the thing that really fucking kills me the most.
He was the kind of person who brought the life out of people. I would bring a person to a show. Dime would feel like they had known him forever. That was the kind of person he was. He was an entertainer offstage and on. He wanted you to be the happiest you could be when you are around. That’s him in a nutshell.
Dave just called me up. From Sum 41 and was talking to me. Just telling me how he learned how to play guitar listening to Dimebag. We both said that he was a force of nature. I don’t think there will be someone like him again. When you hear him you knew it was him. I’m gonna miss all these things. I’m gonna miss the crown royal doubles. I’m gonna miss everything you know? I’m starting to get choked up again. It fucking kills me. I hope and I pray that kids today don’t skip over what he did as a guitar player. He for me in the 90s was what Eddie Van Halen was in the 80s. Dimebag just took guitar playing to another level. I hope that doesn’t go un noticed. When I see things like the 100 greatest guitar players of the world and I don’t see Dimebag Darrel’s name on it that to me is just disgusting.
Mikey Doling ex member of Snot and Soulfly phone call with Uranium
12/9/04
When I was on tour with Pantera I was in Soulfly. I said to Dime I would love to get on stage and play with him. He punched me in the chest and said all right, see you tomorrow night. Learn Walk. From that night on, for about 10 nights I performed with my hero Dimebag Darrel. He was the greatest.
I would have to say that we lost the greatest guitar player in metal history. No disrespect to Randy Rhodes. I would have to say, attitude, and kindness, not rock star attitude. It is unbeatable forever. He is the greatest.
v I don’t see how someone can take a gun and shoot somebody so kind.
I just wish that uh, I could get my hands on the guy who did it. Even though he’s dead, I’d just love to beat the shit out of his corpse.
Mark Hunter From Chimaira phone call with Uranium
12/9/04
This summer, uh, we were at the Metal Hammer awards, and Dime was a little out of his mind that evening, and I was standing in the uh VIP room, next thing you know, I see Dime running in with a guitar, and he just proceeded to smash it against the ground, and he won guitarist of the year award and threw it into the crowd, and you know what? That’s true Dime fashion.
I mean he’s one of the most innovative guitar players of the genre, and I don’t think anyone will ever take that away.
You know, the first time I met him, I was of course nervous, because he’s such a hero of mine, and you get nervous when you meet people like that, and he was just so inviting and warm and super-friendly, and you felt like you knew the guy. For twenty years, after a five minute conversation.
If we jam anything we’re just gonna jam some Pantera, and I know that there definitely should be some heavy drinking in Dime’s honor for this evening.
Scott Ian from Anthrax phone call with Uranium
12/9/04
The only other time really in my life that I can compare this to is when Burton got killed and uh, you know, we were there then, so same kinda thing just like this stunned disbelief of how could that be possible.
In a crazy way this is even more unbelievable to me than 9/11. 9/11 you can at least say this is why this happened, and this is an act of war and all this, but this is you know, this was like some insane dude’s premeditated.
We’ve been lucky enough to have him play on our last three albums as our sixth member of the band in a way, and uh you know, which is a mind-blowing experience because not only is the guy a great friend but I’m such a huge fan of his, you know, after Eddie Van Halen he was the next guy that came along that influenced the whole generation of guitar players, so for us to have him with us is amazing.
It was always more important to him to make sure everyone else was ok around him, and make sure everyone was blowin’ it up and havin’ a good time, and you know, I think, you know, that’s how I’ll always remember him.
My deepest, deepest heartfelt condolences go out to Rita and Vinnie and Phillip and Rex and everyone else in Damage, you know, Patrick, I mean, everybody, the whole extended family, I mean, there’s so many people involved, in this, the whole metal world, you know, it’s it’s it’s just. It’s heart breaking. It’s crushing, you know, it’s like soul crushing this whole thing and my thoughts are with everybody right now.