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He couldn’t convince Dave Mustaine to also hire his brother Vinnie Paul, so Dimebag decided to carry on with Pantera instead, and, together with Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown, boy oh boy was it worth it.
Paul and Darrell Abbott were born in Arlington, Texas to the family of Jerry Abbott, a country musician, and producer.
Brothers Paul and Darrell Abbott developed their interests in music while growing up in Pantego, Texas, where their father owned a Pantego Sound Studio. The boys were encouraged to experiment with the recording equipment and with music in general, which would eventually lead to Paul’s influence as Pantera’s co-producer.
As Darrell recalled in Guitar World:
‘I can remember one birthday of mine where Dad said, ‘Son, you can either have a BMX bike or you can have this,’ and he pointed to a guitar. I ended up taking the bike, but he did plant a seed in my mind.’
After recording their first two albums at Abbott’s studio in Pantego, Texas, Pantera moved on to the new recording studio that Jerry Abbott opened in Nashville, Tennessee, for their third release.
Allegedly, the ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ cover face guy was whacked 31 times before the shot was secured.
The album’s cover was shot by photographer Brad Guice, who also shot the photo for the ‘Cowboys from Hell’ cover. The band told their label that they wanted ‘something vulgar, like a dude getting punched.’ The first version of the cover that the label brought to the band showed a boxer with a punching glove, but the band did not like it, so the label produced a second version. According to Vinnie Paul, the man on the cover was paid $10 a punch and was hit in the face 31 times to get the right picture. However, Brad Guice stated that the man, who was named Sean Cross, was never actually hit.
At the age of 14, Philip Anselmo burned a portion of his parents’ house down during a prank.
Hear the story straight from Anselmo himself:
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A ‘Reinventing the Steel’ song, ‘Death Rattle,’ was used in an episode of Spongebob Squarepants.
It was entitled ‘Pre-Hibernation Week.’
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The live music videos for ‘Cowboys From Hell’ and ‘Psycho Holiday’ were directed by Paul Rachman and filmed at The Basement, a Dallas rock club where the band loved playing.
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In 1991 Pantera performed for a 1,6 million crowd in Moscow, Russia.
By September 1991, Panterawere sufficiently established as a band. They opened for AC/DC, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, and Queensrÿche at the Monsters of Rock festival in Moscow, Russia. Earlier that year, Pantera was playing to crowds that topped out around 2000 people.
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Pantera earned the respect, dedication, and admiration of heavy metal fans across the world with their live shows.
They played 285 concerts in 17 months to support ‘Vulgar Display of Power.’ In celebration of their Vulgar Display of Power tour, Pantera released a home movie about their life on the road. Appropriately titled ‘Vulgar Video,’ it featured live footage, candid travel and backstage footage with the band and crew, plus several fan encounters, including one confrontation with Christian fundamentalists in the band’s hotel room.
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Pantera appeared on Beavis and Butthead show four times.
They were featured in the following episodes: ‘Way Down Mexico Way’ on May 26th, 1993 ( ‘Psycho Holiday’), ‘Sperm Bank’ on October 7th, 1993 (‘Mouth for War’), ‘The Pipe of Doom’ on May 21, 1994 (‘I’m Broken’), ‘Plastic Surgin’ on December 19th, 1994 (‘This Love’).
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Anton Crowley, who played guitar on cult death metal band, Necrophagia’s 1999 album, ‘Holocausto de la Morte,’ was actually Philip Anselmo, operating under a pseudonym for legal reasons.
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