A biography for Dimebag Darrellhasn’t been written yet.
“To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.”
“Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.”
“Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.”
“I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.”
“Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.”
“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.”
“I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?”
“Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.”
“I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.”
“I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.”
“Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.”
“I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.”
“I respect the Pantera fans with all my heart.”
“I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.”
“Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.”
“I'm into sounds, man.”
“My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.”
“The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.”
“My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.”
“As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!”