In a recent chat with Guitar World, Rex Brown talked about Dimebag Darrell’s guitar solo that made him cry.
“‘Planet Caravan,'” the bassist answered when asked for his favorite guitar solo from Dimebag. “[Dimebag] thought it sucked, and I told him to leave it alone, so he comped it and stayed with that one. I was literally in tears.”
In a 2022 interview with Tone-Talk, Brown recalled, “Now this is very, very important. Dime, when he went to play that lead, the first one, I had to leave the room because it was so f*cking good.”
“‘Planet Caravan,’ it’s like an E9 kind of a chord, and just the way that Dime played, it was the perfect chording for him to play over. And the way he put those notes together, just off the fly,” Brown continued.
He also explained, “You know, he always came in with something, but we cut this so quick that, I think we’d gone out to dinner and he just came back and let it let that one have it. It was like… I won’t say ‘Eruption,’ because that changed f*cking everything for everyone.”
“But I will say that it was one of those moments for me, of listening to that and being right next to my best friend [who] just played it. So [I] keep that in my heart,” Rex further shared.
Earlier this year, Pantera added ‘Floods’ to their setlist. Drummer Charlie Benante shared on Drumeo that Darrell considered ‘Floods’ his favorite solo. “It was Darrell’s favorite guitar solo that he did in the history of Pantera,” the musician said.
‘Floods,’ from ‘The Great Southern Trendkill,’ is a 7-minute song. Halfway through, Dimebag plays a powerful guitar solo. After over a minute of intense shredding, the solo ends with Phil Anselmo shouting ‘die, die, die,’ and the guitar sound turns into a heavy crunch leading to the outro.
