Pantera: Their Forgotten Glam Metal Past - Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul, Rex Brown & Terry Glaze

Pantera: Their early glam metal beginnings

0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Formation of Pantera
4:55 - Pantera's Early Live Gigs/Albums
6:36 - Lineup Falls Apart
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Pantera is a band whose mostly remembered for their domination of the 90’s metal scene. A lot of people don’t talk about their early days, more specifically their first three albums with frontman Terry Galze, before Phil Anselmo joined the band. Pantera didn’t have overnight success. They took almost a decade to break big and they started out surprisingly as a glam metal band. On the surface they looked like just another band from the sunset strip, but how did they end up playing glam metal and how did their sound finally morph into the Pantera we all know and love? Stay tuned for today’s story.

The 1980’s were really crucial time for heavy metal. The late 70’s and early 80’s saw an influx of british bands includingbut not limited iron maiden, venom, saxon which better known as the new wave of british heavy metal.In addition to that you had speed and trash metal sprouting up and gaining more popularity in both America and Europe.

It was during the early 80’s that two teenage siblings known as the Abbott brothers guitarist Vinnie and guitarist Darrell started their own band. It was no surprise the Abott brothers chose a career i music, it ran in their family. Their father Jerry was a respected blues and country producer who also owned his own studio. Jerry was crucial in encouraging his sons to pursue music. In fact Dimebag Darrell would recall in the book Louder Than Hell By Jon Widerhorn
“my brother vinnie came home from school one day carrying a tuba and my dad said son take that thing back. Play the drums or do something that’s gonna make you some cash.” As kids, the Abott brothers would spend a lot of time in their dad’s studio and meet a lot of blues and country musicians. Some of those musicians would teach the budding guitarist Darrell some cool licks while his father would teach him scales. Jerry would end up producing Panera’s first three albums, he would manage the band early in their career and even bought the band their first car which they used to get to gigs
Initially the Abbott brothers both started out playing drums, but after a few weeks Vinnie got better than his brother and asked his father to buy darrell a guitar. Vinnie would recall the early days of his brother playing the guitar revealing in Louder Than Hell “I used to walk by his room and see him with his ace frehley makeup on standing in front of the mirror holding the guitar. I said are you ever gonna learn to play that thing. I never thought he would. One day he comes into my room and says are you ready to jam. He plugs in and starts playing smoke on the water. We played it for five or six hours and we were hooked forever.
The brothers would attend Bowie High school in Arlington Texas where they met Terry Glaze and Tommy Bradford. Glaze who played guitar at the time wanted Vinnie to join his band with Bradford, but Vinnie made it clear he came as a package deal with his brother. They would agree and add singer Donnie Hart who had a PA.
The lineup underwent several changes and they soon lost their singer and rhythm guitarist before adding bassist Rex Brown and Terry Glaze would take over vocals shrinking the lineup to a four piece. Brown would remember his early days with the same book revealing When I first met Darrell he must have been 14. Me and Vinnie were in high school and Darrell could barely hit a bar chord. But he learned fast. He was a natural. “ And that’s absolutely true. By Darrell’s own admission he only ever took one guitar lesson in his life and never went back for a second one. He ditched school and guitar became his main focus in life. Soon enough he would start winning guitar contests and getting free gearand at one point was banned from entering any more contests because he was so good. Soon enough he started judging guitar contests as a teenger according to Glaze.
The band would go by several monickers before landing on the name Pantera including Gemeni, and Eternity. The band members soon took stage names with Darrell referring to himself as Diamond Darrell while Re

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