REX BROWN – On PANTERA Reunion: “I’m In”

Former PANTERA/DOWN bassist, Rex Brown, says “I’m In” for teaming up with Philip Anselmo and Zakk Wylde for a ‘special reunion tour’ celebrating the music of PANTERA.

Brown reportedly made the comment in response to an interview “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott‘s longtime girlfriend Rita Haney gave last month in which she said she would “definitely” be in favor of Anselmo, Brown and Wylde embarking on such a trek.

Eight days after BLABBERMOUTH.NET first published Haney‘s remarks, Brown took to his Twitter to write: “I wanna make sure that ppl understand what I’m about to tweet.. It’s not up to Rita to say what will happen, only what Philip & I say…I’m in!! Dig?!?!?”

As the story goes, Rita discussed the possibility of the former PANTERA members and the OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist paying tribute to Dimebag and his brother Vinnie Paul Abbott while speaking to “The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show” on the red carpet of the Ronnie James Dio 10th Memorial Awards Gala on February 20 at the Avalon in Los Angeles.

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There is also said to be a top secret discussion going on for Phil and Rex to complete the unreleased tracks intended for the 2nd DAMAGEPLAN album that were cut by Dimebag and Vinnie Paul before Dime was murdered on the stage during a show in 2004.

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Last year, Anselmo told Chile’s Humo Negro that he would consider getting together with Wylde and Brown and performing PANTERA‘s classic songs in concert. “Well, Zakk is a busy man,” he said. “He does his own band, he does stuff with Ozzy and all that stuff. We spoke about it maybe one time. And I think everybody — everybody — is… I guess they’re like me. Keep an open mind about it. We’ll see. But I know from all the hard work with [Anselmo‘s] THE ILLEGALS [project] here to make those songs right, all of us, we would have to take time off and really practice together and get everything perfect. So it’s a lot of work. And I’m doing a lot of bands, man, right now. [But] if everything was lined up, I would do it — sure. Fuck yeah! Why not?”

Legendary rock journalist, Randy “Rocket” Cody, has issued a wild conspiracy theory that has Phil Anselmo and the CIA having arranged the assassination of Dimebag via a “False Flag” attack.

Anselmo had taken major heat for using the Nazi salute during a prior Dimebash invent meant to honor Dimebag and he shouted “White Power!”

Anselmo also went on the record during a notorious magazine piece just prior to Dime’s tragic concert slaying claiming he could do harm to him.

A few years ago, I interviewed Phil Anselmo and we discussed the White Power symbol of the confederate flag. This was prior to him flashing the Nazi Sieg Heil sign at Dimebash. Read here: https://t.co/0GlVOgjda5 @TheMetalDen #TruthForDimebag #mkultra pic.twitter.com/HZMW9WAoxQ
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Zakk Wylde is also open to the idea, telling “The Cassius Morris Show” last October: “When Saint Vinnie was still around, they were talking about it then. I mean, the way I always looked at it is it’s a PANTERA celebration and an honor. I mean, every night I’m playing with Ozz, we honor Saint Rhoads [late Ozzy guitarist Randy Rhoads]. I’m playing the Randy stuff every night, and I’m blessed and it’s an honor to do it. Basically, we’re paying tribute to Randy every night — keeping his music alive.

An alleged new track that is planned for the final PANTERA album is tentatively titled “Best Dude” and was jammed as an impromptu performance live by DAMAGEPLAN in 2004. Listen HERE.

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