When I first met him, that’s how he was (laughs). I don’t remember what he said to me, but we used to play in the neighbourhood together. We were eight-years-old (laughs), and little bratty kids – the both of us. “Well, no… He didn’t have his braces yet – just big teeth. “He had kind of big ears and braces…,” Rita remembers. It’s coming together.”ĭimebag happened to be a character personality ever since the day the long-time couple first met. It gives us a place to get to share that as well. He had so much fun with the music, even when he was off, and with music that had nothing to do with Pantera. Plus with the Dimevision releases, it gives us a chance to release music that he recorded on his own, even if it was parodies and just for fun – just as four-tracks. “Hopefully that lets people even more into the behind-the-scenes of living at home, and living with Dime. There’s just so much footage of him at home entertaining himself that I really wanted to share that with people, so that they knew that what you saw was what you got. It wasn’t just a stage presence, or just a rock ’n’ roll side to him he was that way 24/7, and he just was always comical, always creative. The one thing about Darrell was he was a character. “See how he was at home, the way he lived. “I would say with the Dimevision volumes we are doing, our first intentions on it – and as far as with this volume, as well – were to let people see Darrell outside of being onstage or on the road,” shares Rita Haney, long-time girlfriend of Dimebag. ![]() 2: Roll With It Or Get Rolled Over will be issued in November 2017 via Metal Blade Records. The label of Pantera drummer and brother Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Paul Abbott, Big Vin Records, oversaw its release. 1: That’s The Way I Have Fun paid homage to the memory of late Pantera and Damageplan guitarist ‘Dimebag’ Darrell Abbott, the DVD culled from footage Dimebag had shot with a camcorder over a number of years on the road and at home. ‘Dimebag’ Darrell Abbott onstage with Damageplan in 2004
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