[kj] Pantera (WAS: 1000 SUNS Outside Gate and PHANTASMAGORIA)

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Alex,

You paid close attention when I said Decline 2 sucked ("BUT YOU SAID 
YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT OLIVER!" - zing!) so I am surprised you didn't pay 
such laserlike attention to my earlier posts where I've said I LIKE 
metal a la Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Motorhead, a lot of NWOBHM stuff, 
early Venom, etc. Remember, I even compared some stuff on Hosannas 
favorably to Motorhead and the bassline on the title song of Hosannas to 
the bass line on Venoms song "Sons of Satan." I love very early Metallica.

I just don't like Pantera.

I'm not in the hair salon as much as the people you've posted pics of on 
your blog. And making fun of hair is fun. FYI: I didn't invent the 
description "hair metal," someone else did.

The mourning I saw of Dimebag was  along these lines: 
http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A60919/high/bmepb357260.jpg

Especially here in Dallas where he lived. It was pretty nauseating.

-Oliver




Alexander Smith wrote:

> Pantera -- despite Phil Anselmo being a giant-sized asshole -- made  

> great music.

>

> Stop worrying about whether they're "punk" or "metal" or whatever.  

> Get out of the hair salon!!!!

>

> And the mourning for Dimebag is fairly genuine and justified. By all  

> accounts, he was a good man, an innovator on his instrument, and  

> killed in a senseless way.

>

> Alex in NYC

>