{"id":79708,"date":"2023-10-01T18:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T23:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=79708"},"modified":"2023-10-01T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T23:14:19","slug":"dimebag-wanted-to-go-back-to-pantera-in-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=79708","title":{"rendered":"DIMEBAG &#8211; &#8216;Wanted To Go Back&#8217; To PANTERA In 2004, Says Friend, &#8220;In his heart, he was PANTERA \u2014 he always would be.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dimepink.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79709\" style=\"width:360px;height:488px\" width=\"360\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dimepink.jpg 451w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dimepink-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Daryl &#8220;Bobby Tongs&#8221; Arnberger<\/strong>, who was one of <strong>&#8220;Dimebag&#8221; Darrell Abbott<\/strong>&#8216;s closest friends and an official videographer for <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> and <strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong>, in 2020 gave a two-hour interview to the <strong>&#8220;Landry.audio&#8221;<\/strong> podcast in which he went into detail about <strong>PANTERA<\/strong>&#8216;s early glam days, the arrival of singer <strong>Philip Anselmo<\/strong>, the changing of the band&#8217;s sound, <strong>Anselmo<\/strong>&#8216;s drug addiction, how <strong>Philip<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>DOWN<\/strong> side project affected <strong>PANTERA<\/strong>, <strong>PANTERA<\/strong>&#8216;s breakup, <strong>Dimebag<\/strong>&#8216;s gradual frustration with <strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong>, and <strong>Arnberger<\/strong>&#8216;s current relationship with the surviving <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> bandmembers. You can check out the discussion below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Landry.Audio E28: Pantera -The Complete History From Start To Finish With Bobby Tongs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYj_aen4eY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Speaking about <strong>Darrell<\/strong>&#8216;s desire to reform <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> in the months leading up to the guitarist&#8217;s untimely death, <strong>Arnberger<\/strong> said: &#8220;Oh, yeah. He would have. The last time I saw him was in November of 2004. I was about to go back out with <strong>SLIPKNOT<\/strong> or [<strong>MARILYN<\/strong>] <strong>MANSON<\/strong>, one of the two. And I went over to his house. I was just talking to him briefly about everything. He was, like, &#8216;We&#8217;re gonna go out and do this [<strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong>] tour through December, and I&#8217;ll see you for Christmas and everything. After that, we&#8217;re gonna have some new shit going on. And it&#8217;s not gonna be this. Whatever it takes, we&#8217;re gonna get these guys back together and do it right.&#8217; <strong>(PANTERA)<\/strong>\u2026 He was saying he was gonna do everything he could. He was pretty much done with what they [<strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong>] were doing at that point. He wanted to move on and go back to <strong>PANTERA<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Asked what it was about <strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong> that was irking <strong>Dimebag<\/strong> shortly before the band&#8217;s final tour, <strong>Arnberger<\/strong> replied: &#8220;He didn&#8217;t think the other guys were as into it. He obviously didn&#8217;t feel the magic as much as he did with the other two guys,&#8221; presumably referring to <strong>Anselmo<\/strong> and <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> bassist <strong>Rex Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Arnberger<\/strong> also revealed that he never read <strong>Brown<\/strong>&#8216;s 2013 memoir, <strong>&#8220;Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story Of Pantera&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;One of my friends \u2026 told me one of the first quotes in there was something about <strong>Vinnie<\/strong> being fat, and all this shit,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then he talked shit about <strong>Darrell<\/strong> in the first chapter. And it&#8217;s, like, there&#8217;s no way that <strong>Rex<\/strong> can talk shit about those guys. It&#8217;s obviously a pile of shit, and I didn&#8217;t read it. I didn&#8217;t read it. I don&#8217;t wanna read it. Everybody&#8217;s told me enough about it. Through the years, everybody&#8217;s told me what a bunch of horseshit it was \u2014 people that were there and people that know. And even <strong>Rex<\/strong> himself has said it wasn&#8217;t meant to be that way. He was telling me some shit about it. But I don&#8217;t know. I didn&#8217;t read it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Arnberger<\/strong> went on to say that he still has a cordial relationship with both <strong>Anselmo<\/strong> and <strong>Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In 2018, <strong>Dimebag<\/strong>&#8216;s longtime girlfriend <strong>Rita Haney<\/strong> told the <strong>&#8220;Talk Toomey&#8221;<\/strong> podcast that a <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> reunion &#8220;definitely&#8221; would have happened had <strong>Dimebag<\/strong> not been taken from us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;[<strong>Darrell<\/strong>] had already made the effort to get on the phone with <strong>Rex<\/strong> on his birthday, on August 20th, in 2004, and had made plans to speak with him again,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, yeah, definitely. Because I know how, in his heart, he was <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> \u2014 he always would be. No matter what it was called \u2014 <strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong> or what \u2014 that was always what was inside of him. And I know the things that he was feeling when he came home. He felt he had something to prove. He didn&#8217;t wanna do those things with [<strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong> frontman] <strong>Pat Lachman<\/strong>. <strong>Pat<\/strong> had already been causing issues and there were problems. I have several voice messages from [<strong>Darrell<\/strong>] that I still have of things that he left and was telling me about the things <strong>Pat<\/strong> was doing out there. And he was, like, &#8216;Man, I don&#8217;t wanna work with this dude. I wanna fire him. I just don&#8217;t want people to think we&#8217;re difficult to work with.&#8217; I mean, that&#8217;s just how he felt. So, yeah, I definitely believe that [<strong>PANTERA<\/strong>] would be standing on stage together [again].&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Up until his passing in June 2018, <strong>Vinnie<\/strong> remained on non-speaking terms with <strong>Anselmo<\/strong>, whom the drummer indirectly blamed for <strong>Dimebag<\/strong>&#8216;s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">There is also word going around that a top-secret project is in action to use the unfinished tracks cut by the Abbott brothers as the final PANTERA album. Both Dime and Vinnie Paul completed the drums, bass and guitar tracking for these songs before Dime was murdered, and it&#8217;s said they returned to their thrash\/groove roots. TMD has recently confirmed that these songs do indeed exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Vinnie<\/strong> and <strong>Dimebag<\/strong> co-founded <strong>PANTERA<\/strong>. When <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> broke up in 2003, they formed <strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong>. On December 8, 2004, while performing with <strong>DAMAGEPLAN<\/strong> at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, <strong>Dimebag<\/strong> was shot and killed onstage by a troubled schizophrenic who according to the narrative being sold by the authorities, he believed that the members of <strong>PANTERA<\/strong> were stealing his thoughts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rocketden-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79711\" style=\"width:494px;height:370px\" width=\"494\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rocketden-7.jpg 599w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rocketden-7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A wild conspiracy theory that has been suggested by legendary rock journalist, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rocketmetalden\">Randy &#8220;Rocket&#8221; Cody<\/a><\/strong>, actually puts Phil Anselmo as a co-conspirator in the carefully executed assassination of<strong> Dimebag<\/strong>, with the full backing of the <strong>Central Intelligence Agency<\/strong> and <strong>Church of Satan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Report: DAMAGEPLAN, Baphomet And The Lamb Of God (Pt. 2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/us7f4GAfWv\">https:\/\/t.co\/us7f4GAfWv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMetalDen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheMetalDen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisDayInMETAL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ThisDayInMETAL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndOfCentury?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EndOfCentury<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfhnyy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cfhnyy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CielGris1987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CielGris1987<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoylentRadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SoylentRadio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachMoonshine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ZachMoonshine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UrMidnight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UrMidnight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetalNation247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MetalNation247<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TruthForDimebag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TruthForDimebag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6IGbRJ8SUR\">pic.twitter.com\/6IGbRJ8SUR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Randy Rocket Cody (@rocketmetalden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rocketmetalden\/status\/954912886203219968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daryl &#8220;Bobby Tongs&#8221; Arnberger, who was one of &#8220;Dimebag&#8221; Darrell Abbott&#8216;s closest friends and an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79708"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105436,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79708\/revisions\/105436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}