GUITAR WORLD Magazine To Pay Tribute To DIMEBAG DARRELL

January 6, 2005

According to the Washington Post, the staff of Guitar World magazine is currently working on its next issue, a tribute to "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the former guitarist for the heavy metal band PANTERA who was shot and killed by a crazed fan in Ohio last month while playing with his new band, DAMAGEPLAN.

"I was friends with Dimebag for 12 years," says Brad Tolinski, Guitar World's editor in chief. "Dime was really part of the family."

Dimebag appeared on seven Guitar World covers, the most memorable coming last March when the mag arranged for Dime to meet Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist, Zakk Wylde, a man who shared Dime's love of high-spirited high jinks. The meeting took place at Dime's house in Texas with two GW reporters observing.

"They got the reporters totally drunk and threw them in the back of the car," Tolinski says. "Then they went on a joy ride in Dime's neighborhood. And on Dime's lawn was a large evergreen tree, and they decided to smash into it until it fell over."

Leaving the car parked atop the fallen fir, Dime escorted his guests inside, where they encountered a half-dozen friendly local striptease artists.

"They provided lap dances for the musicians and members of the journalistic community," Tolinski says.

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