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VINNIE PAUL On DIMEBAG's Murder: 'Nobody Ever Expected Anything Like That'

June 12, 2006

Lynn Saxberg of The Ottawa Citizen last week conducted an interview with former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

On wanting nothing to do with the music business after his guitarist brother "Dimebag" Darrell was shot to death by a fan at a club show in Ohio in December 2004:

"I thought I was done with it. That day when all that happened, my heart went away. Everything that I ever put into music went away and it was just like, 'F--- this, I'm done with this s---.' Me and Dime gave everything we ever had to the fans, and for a so-called fan to take him away from us. ..."

On the possibility that REBEL MEETS REBEL could evolve into a touring act:

"If we end up getting enough fan interest and the record keeps doing as well as it's doing, I think we'll put together a version of the band. Obviously nobody will ever be able to take Dime's place, but we're all still here and we gotta carry on and that's what he wants us to do so we'll definitely find the right guy to come out and do that with us."

On whether his attitude toward fans has changed after the tragedy:

"Never was afraid of them before, I'm not afraid of them now. The night that all that happened, Dime wasn't afraid of them. Nobody expected that. Nobody ever expected anything like that. I think it awakened a lot of people to the f---ed-up world that we live in, but at the same time, we can't live in fear or we can't live at all.

"The bottom line is that my brother loved to entertain people. That was what made him happy, whether it was playing his guitar for people, giving somebody a guitar pick, shaking hands with them, doing a shot with them at the bar. Whatever it was, if he could put a smile on your face, that made him happy."

Read the entire interview at this location.

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