In a recent interview with Guitar Interactive magazine, Zakk Wylde discussed the possibility of the reformed PANTERA lineup—which includes surviving members Philip Anselmo and Rex Brown, along with Wylde and Charlie Benante—creating new music.
Well, the fellows [Philip and Rex] were talking about doing something, and Rita [Haney, longtime girlfriend of late PANTERA guitarist ‘Dimebag’ Darrell Abbott] has tons of cassette recordings of Dime writing riffs and stuff like that,” Wylde said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “So, I guess if it would be like something like, let’s say if it’s Eric Clapton playing with [JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE drummer] Mitch [Mitchell] and [bassist] Noel [Redding], ’cause if Eric went out and did what we’re doing right now, did a Jimi Hendrix celebration, and Mitch and Noel asked Eric Clapton to come out ’cause he was buddies with Jimi and they were just, like, ‘Would you go out and sing and play Jimi‘s stuff?’ And Eric does it, and then after that, it’s just, like, ‘We’ve got these recordings [that] Jimi never finished, a song called ‘Purple Haze’ and a song called ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ and this song called ‘Little Wing’ or whatever,’ and we’ll properly record ’em [with Eric], because if they were just Jimi just jamming on a tape recorder, just him playing ’em. If they were, obviously, Dime‘s original riffs and ideas, yeah, of course. But PANTERA is those four guys. You’re gonna call it the Jimi Hendrix band and you’ve got Eric playing and singing. It’s just Mitch and Noel. If it’s Jimi‘s original ideas, and they’re just gonna properly record ’em, take it from the little tape recorder from a cassette, yeah, that would be cool. ‘Cause if it was something Dime wrote and him and Vinnie were working on or whatever…”
During last year’s interview with AndrewHaug.com at Knotfest Australia in Melbourne, PANTERA bassist Rex Brown was asked if he would be open to collaborate on new music with the reunited iteration of the band.
“Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I could tell you more but I’m not going to,” he responded.
Elsewhere in the conversation, Brown discussed the experience of performing as PANTERA for an entirely new generation of fans.
“You can’t see it on the YouTube. You can’t feel that vibe until you actually come to the show,” he said. “And we haven’t been doing interviews just for the fact we want people just to come to the show. It’s not about anything prior past or present that I wanna talk about today — just the show tonight.
“We’re pinching ourselves over these new fans that have never seen this before, and it’s a whole another generation that we either didn’t know a) that were out there, b) that were still listening to us, and the turnout has just been unbelievable. Of course, at first you had the naysayers and all that stuff, and as we played gig by gig, it’s made us tighter. And I’ve been trying to rehearse this band as much as I can within schedules, and we’ll just go down for no f**king reason and just jam. That’s what makes a band tight.”
Source: metaladdicts.com
