former Pantera singer terry grays called the band’s current comeback “a good thing” and said it was a great way to celebrate the music of Texas metallers. glazewho fronted the band during the glamor era of the early to mid-1980s, commented in a recent interview while speaking with Eonmusic.
glazecurrently involved in a number of projects including: Yvel Frehleyspoke frankly about the time Panteracooperation with the deceased Abbott Brothers Vinnie Paul When “Dimebag” Darrelland their passing in chat.
About meeting with and forming a band dime When Vinnie, terry “We wanted to play with the best drummer we could find, and the best drummer at our school was Vince AbbottSo we got together and jammed and tried to get him to play with us.It was an agreement to take his brother Darrell I was in middle school. I reluctantly agreed, even though I wasn’t really into middle school kids. I was lucky to be able to do that.”
Continuing to talk about his desire to see the band’s early output reissued — 1983’s “Metal Magic”1984s “Project in the Jungle” and the 1985s “I Am The Night” — he says: Darrell, and that’s where I stand for it. It’s amazing. We could make a big box with everything in it, and that would be just cool.”
He continued:
when ion music point out Pantera bassist Rex Brown In a 2021 interview with the site, the brothers said they were “totally opposed” to re-releasing these early albums. terry Counter-argument: “It’s still to this day in terms of how the band felt with the brothers, right? So people change their minds and business opportunities arise. What are you going to do? Do?” “
When asked about his recent impressions Pantera‘s current comeback tour, featuring brown and a surviving vocalist Philip Anselmo alongside the guitarist Zakk Wylde and drummer Charlie Benante, terry Said: “I feel just the way I feel Van Halen; it would be hard to believe Van Halen without it Eddie Van HalenWhen Alex still alivePlease try to imagine Eddie When Alex Gone and it was Van HalenIt’s just difficult for us old people. ”
He continued: Celebrate those songs. It means so much to them and music means so much to so many people across the planet. More to them to celebrate music. Power. Good things that bring people out and live together for rock and roll. “
Read the full interview on Eonmusic.
2021, brown fired the first three Pantera tell the album ion music it was the addition of Anselmo That Pantera The story began in earnest.
“That old singer? Damn it just flew by.” rex Said. “He wasn’t on the same wavelength as the three of us. The man had never worked in his life. I saw him shooting his mouth in some of these magazines.” Look. “You know what I’m talking about? Thirty-five years later, do you want fame? Sorry buddy, I’ve missed the boat!” I don’t want to give credit. philip In the band it developed into something else and it became Pantera Now that we know it, we never talk about old records. ”
recall, brown Admitted: “Hey, look, it’s nice to be back in memory lane, but waking up first thing in the morning is the furthest thing. “Nothing On (But the Radio)”, and the singer? No! I mean, I hate fucking songs like that, but it’s a process of growing up and now things are coming out and it’s been bootlegged 100,000 times, so people put it in our history. I think it’s part of… it’s not.otherwise philipis singing on it, but it’s not PanteraThat’s how I see it. ”
When asked candidly to clarify that he had no desire to see those records formally reissued, rex emphasized. “No, no! The brothers were against it, and I was against it, and that’s it. Period. It doesn’t come out.”
