Unreleased Dimebag Solo To Appear On Nickelback Song
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Jon Wiederhorn of MTV.com is reporting that a previously unreleased solo by late PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist Dimebag Darrell will appear this fall in an unlikely place: on NICKELBACK's new album, "All the Right Reasons". The guitar parts for the flailing, 24-second lead were donated by Darrell's brother, drummer Vinnie Paul, and assembled from outtakes from the PANTERA albums "Vulgar Display of Power" and "Far Beyond Driven".
The song, a tribute to Darrell titled "Side of a Bullet", was written three months after the guitarist was killed while performing onstage with DAMAGEPLAN in Columbus, Ohio. NICKELBACK mainman Chad Kroeger first penned the song's aggressive, metallic riff, then wrote call-and-response lyrics from the perspective of a PANTERA fan so enraged over Dimebag's murder that he vows revenge, not realizing the shooter had already been killed by a policeman.
"I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry," Kroeger told MTV.com. "I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before — it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful."
Once Kroeger finished demoing "Side of a Bullet", he called up Paul and played it to him to get his take on the tune. Paul liked what he heard and urged Kroeger to write lyrics about Dime. "I said, 'Well, funny enough, that song is about your brother,' " Kroeger recalled.
Paul volunteered to play on the song, so Kroeger overnighted him the tape and encouraged him to record a new drum track over the one played by NICKELBACK drummer Daniel Adair. "He thought about it for a while," Kroeger said, "then he decided that Daniel had done such an amazing job that we should leave it the way it was. That's when he sent the guitar parts from 'Vulgar Display of Power' and 'Far Beyond Driven', which we used for the solo."
Read the full article at MTV.com.
Source: Blabbermouth
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37 Comments on "Nickelback to Use Unreleased Dimebag Solo"
6. writes:
Dudes, i agree that nickelback is a horrid band and should be strung out and shot, but if I hear one more rip on Canada i'm gonna have to request every one who does to post their address so i can visit them personally and knock their teeth down their throat.
R.I.P. Dimebag
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13. writes:
Hey guess what.I dont give f***ing sh** what you think about me. I'll say what ever i want about candians cause im part candian.Mostly irish though so you can kiss my white irish mick a$$ cause more than likely im about to go and get drunk so that i cant read any of your stupid a$$ remarks about how i hate canada cause they never have and never will do anything for any body cause they are all a bunch of p***ies except for me cause i denounce that part of my heritage.Irsh people f***ing kiss A S S.But i do have to give canada a tiny bit of credit for giving us Pamela anderson.She may be canadian but those tits of hers are american made.
16. writes:
nickelback are talented and worthy band......all bands are, except 4 frans ferdinand. Just cos u hate them, doesn't mean they are sh**. Just because they don't slit pig's throats and rape young virgins doesn't mean that they are not worthy of Pantera (Pantera didn't do that bullsh** like u guys anyway). Don't any of you mummy haters agree that it is cool that all kinds of music are uniting to aknowledge how cool dime was and is............
17. writes:
Nickleback are not metal, but are a decent rock band. I like a few of their songs. The one about the slut is great, "figure you out" or something. Just because they aren't really a heavy band, they may have been big fans of Pantera. They were one of the biggest f***ing metal bands ever...
I don't agree with using Dime's material, I say dedicate a song, or cover a song.
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18. writes:
Listen, obviosly Chad Kroeger knew and where friends with Dimebag and Vinnie. Vinnie gave him his stamp of approval. Doesn't that mean anything to you guys?
John and Dan have it right. Nickelback is letting Dimebag live on through their music. If it is cool with Vinnie amd obviously would have been cool with Dimebag (beings they were all friends) then it is good enough for me!
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19. writes:
Nickleback is crap, but it is a good thing reproducing dimebags solo's to bad they suk ass(that is nickleback not dimebag RIP) and i wish someone better could of done the solos like hammet or sinister gates or that guy from dream theater , it would of been better though if bag was still alive and doing it himself though.
20. writes:
Nickelback is the heaviest band out right now. They make Pantera look like Britney Spears. Everyone should be glad an amazing band like Nickelback is making Pantera look good.
LOL. SARCASM.
P.S. Irish people rock, Canada sucks. 6743 Rhode Island Ave. Hammond, IN dude bring it!
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21. writes:
Damn FU CKIN right!!!!!! Us Irish people kick some much a$$ regardless of whether or not we're drunk. nickleback can go and choke on a huge a$$ motherf***ing d***. Dimebag should've used those canadian douchebage and used them as a body shield. sh** at least then they wouldve been usefull for once .
25. writes:
you f***in idoits are completely clueless. COMPLETLEY. You f***ing bloody godamn retard abortions don't even f***in know the dimeback actually recorded tracks with chad kruger and nickleback one of which was released as a single "Saturday Night" ,elton john song, wih kid rock. This all happend several months before his murder. So now you know the history muher f***er. Dimebag wasn't a f***in canada hatin prick either so eat a d***.
27. writes:
WHAT THE f***!. I'm completely p***ed off at this very moment. NICKELBACK makes me sick. Who do they think they are anyway, using Dimebag solos. We all know DIMEBAG is the best guitarist in the world. If I ever see one of the members of NICKELBACK I will rip their head and sh** down there motherf***ing neck. f*** this f***ED up. Who the f*** gave them f***ing permission to use the f***ing solo, that's what f***ing pisses me off. Whoever the f*** it f***ing was shot be shot in the motherf***ing head, you f***ing worthless piece of motherf***ing sh**. f*** all this Canadian music, it f*** sucks. I mean I'm From motherf***ing CANADA and I listen to American bands, The only f***ing canadian f***in I listen to is Motherf***in Cryptopsy. f*** NICKELBACK!,
PANTERA f***ING ROCKS
DAMAGEPLAN f***ING ROCKS
R.I.P. DIMEBAG
31. writes:
You guys are all a bunch of whiney pissbags. Of course Nickelback isnt anything even remotely close to what Pantera was, but they still have love and respect for each other as rockers. I think it's great that someone other than a Pantera soundalike decided to give recognition to Dimebag. As musicians, there should be mutual respect for one another and I mean this on a much larger scale than just between members of the above-mentioned bands. Dimebag is greatly missed. If Elton John decided to write a song in tribute to Dimebag, then more power to him, that would be f***in awesome.
33. writes:
OMG, I cant believe the ppl that are talkin so bad about Nickelback for the song with dimebag. You need to get your facts straight, it was dimebags brother that was in this with Chad. Just cause you guys like or love pantera doesnt mean that Nickelback sucks. They're the best thing that has happened in the music world in the past few years and they are trying to show respect for him, which is obviously nothing any of you a$$holes would know about. NICKELBACK ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
36. writes:
you lot aint got a clue im a mucisian an if that happend to me and whitny houston did
he same thing i would be hounerd f***ing hate self riteouse americans what do you now about rock we invented it in the uk and metal so go f***k be happy someone is keeping
dime alive sad f***s
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1. Shreddin writes:
GOD DAMN CANADIANS!Canada sucks.Nickleback SUCKS. And they should just stay the hell up their in their gay candy a$$ btich of a homeland.Personally I think nickleback should be just go straight to hell and get raped by the devil so that they might have a clue what true metal in its essence is.