Dimebag Darrell is a walking textbook of modern metal guitar techniques, liberally spraying bone-crushing power chords, dissonant intervals, tremolo arm insanity, and a shredding lead voice worthy of the masters.
Black Tooth Grin is the first biography of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the Texas-bred guitarist of the heavy metal band Pantera, who was murdered onstage in 2004 by a deranged fan-24 years to the day after John Lennon met a similar fate.Darrell Abbott began as a Kiss-inspired teenage prodigy who won dozens of local talent contests.
Zac Crain’s favorite “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott story isn’t about Dimebag, actually. Rather, it’s about one of the late guitarist’s pets. “He had a goat and had dyed its beard like his, so it was a ...
Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of Dimebag ...