More guitars painted by celebs for the Six String Masterpieces exhibit in remembrance of Dimebag Darrell.
I’ve been meaning to post pictures of these guitars since Dime’s birthday, but I never got around to it until now.
I plan to post pictures of all of the guitars, but the rest might come a little later.
Just a side note, Bob Tyrrell’s has always been my favorite one.
Irony.
I have a playlist on my ipod called Dimebag Darrell. It has every song I’m aware of in which Dimebag is a prominent performer. I keep it on shuffle and I listen to it while I’m driving.
So I was driving home from class tonight and the next song came on.
Then the lyrics started. “COOOLD! BLOOOOODEEED! ICE IN MY VEINS!”
And right as that line started, I saw eyes in the road ahead. It was a cat. So I quick hit my brakes and came to a stop in front of the cat as it ran into the ditch.
Conclusion: I am clearly not cold blooded..
Why I don’t respect ted nugent.
I never really cared for ted nugent’s songs. However, when I listen to Pantera’s cover of Cat Scratch Fever, I can’t help but sing along.
But allow me to direct you to a little something from ted nugent, as I understand it, from shortly after Dime died.
Ted Nugent has slammed PANTERA’s cover of his signature tune “Cat Scratch Fever” as having “no soul, no balls” and “no feel,” adding that the members of PANTERA appeared as “Ozzy-like zombies on TV” whose conduct on stage went against his lifelong anti-drugs and -drink stance.
Responding to a fan posting on Nugent’s official message board (dubbed “The Nuge Board”) about late PANTERA guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and the VH1 “Behind the Music” special on PANTERA that premiered this past Thursday, Ted (who posts on the message board under the name “Nuge”) wrote that he “never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.” (Apparently referring to the fact that Darrell’s “Dimebag” nickname is a slang term for a $10 bag of marijuana.)
When another fan pointed out that Dimebag “loved” Nugent’s music and that he had stated in a magazine interview that he often played some of Ted’s riffs before a show to loosen up the fingers — going so far as to cover “Cat Scratch Fever” for the 1999 “Detroit Rock City” soundtrack — Nugent responded, “though I’m no expert on all things PANTERA, I did hear their version of ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ and it was exceedingly white. No soul, no balls, no feel. Caucasian all the way. Elements of dope, booze and heroin disconnect quite apparent as usual. There is no excuse for such horrifically negative, irresponsible, criminal, America-wrecking behavior as such chimp-like substance abuse. Period. They appeared as Ozzy-like zombies on TV. Ya think. American drunks and dopers are allahpuke terrorists’ favorite allies. Damn them. Damn them all.”
After the fan who started the original thread (who calls himself “the_A_team”) defended Dimebag by saying that “you have to at least respect Dime as a guitarist,” adding that “even though he did drugs, I heard he didn’t do very many,” Nugent replied, “I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.”
Clicking the source will take you to this post on the blacklabelsociety.net website which has links to the original posts.
A beloved person just died? I have an idea, lets bad mouth him publicly.
ted nugent can go fuck himself.
(Note: nugent’s name was intentionally left lower-case.)
