Rex Brown is playing the acoustic guitar part on the album intro - lot of people don't know it but Rex was behind a lot of the musical ideas behind Pantera's music and the Abbott Brothers were technically adept enough in the studio early on to realize a lot of them
That “ guitarist “ is one of the greatest guitarist ever. Dimebag was on another level. Check out Domination by Pantera. One of the best solos to date RIP Dime and Vinnie
It's not hard to hit pinch harmonics once you've been doing them for a little while. Those pitch perfect natural harmonic screams on the whammy bar though are much easier to miss or dampen accidentally. Dime was a God.
Everyone makes the same mistake by reacting to the music video version. It cuts a massive chunk off the beginning of the song and is nowhere near as good.
@@OffbeatLiteracy I guess. Pantera isn't exactly some obscure band though. Pretty well known throughout. Incredible would be if she reacted to Exodus or a band like that.
i simply dont understand why people play a youtube video while reacting to a song, its kinda obvious that you should react to the studio version when it comes to a song!!
R.I.P. Vinnie and Dime. I still remember exactly where I was when I heard about dimebag being killed on stage. Love this band. This is a band that can always pull me out of a funk
Same. I had just clocked in at work when my foreman who was also a metalhead asked if I heard Dime had been killed. My first thought was he was an asshole for trying to prank me like that. It only took another second or two to realize he wasn't joking. The shop owner always kept a TV turned to the news in the front office so I went in there and saw it on the TV. I was crushed and the rest of the day is just a fog. To this day Pantera is still the band I've seen the most times in concert. RIP Dime and Vinnie.
Had seen Shinedown at Starland Ballroom that night, was saying hello to the band after. Barry (drummer) shared about the shooting and Dimebag being killed. And that they had played that venue about a month before.
🎸🎸Probably one of my top 5 metal songs of all time! That outro with the call and response is epic! Plus, Phil had an amazing vocal sustain in his prime. 🎸🎸
The more time that passes I truly believe Dime is the greatest guitarist of my generation. There are so many greats but Dime had something so special that it's left a permanent mark on my soul. A beautiful scar so deep and lasting that the nerve endings musically fuse every atom of my being. RIP Dimebag.
I never saw Pantera but I saw Damageplan and they played this as the first song of the encore and Dimebag slayed it! One of the greatest moments of my life. My friend picked up one of Dimebags picks and Vinnie Paul hit me in the head with a drumstick but it was taken from me. I was 16-17. Insane night.
Well no shit. There will never be another many other unique bands. There will never be another AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Burzum, Darkthrone, Celtic Frost, Mayhem, Ildjarn, Bathory, Slayer, Sodom, Artillery, Sarcófago, Windir, Candlemass, Katatonia and so many others.
You should listen to the album version some time. For some reason they cut the real intro of the song out for the music video. The real intro is beautifully haunting with both great lyrics from Anselmo and incredible guitar work from Dime...it completes the song...makes it one of my top 5 songs of all time.
I believe this song is about the singer losing a loved one and not allowing himself to grieve. Over time he lets himself grieve, deal with the loss and move on. If you have not done 5 Minutes Alone and Floods then this is a must. 2 of the best metal solos ever. Floods is like no other song I have ever heard and very different to any other Pantera song. You should also check out Rime of the Aincent Mariner by Iron Maiden. One of the most epic metal songs ever.
Hi Ray, love your reactions. The song is basically about the character losing a girlfriend and potentially rejoining her in the afterlife. Either when they die or sooner by committing suicide. Phil has said in interviews that he had found inspirations for the lyrics from good friends who had committed suicide. On a brighter note, yes, Dimes guitar work is amazing!🤘🤘🤘🤘
I highly recommend you check out the album version if you liked the song. They cut the entire intro and first verse of the song for the video. Great video as usual!
When you were on the "why" part of your commentating, I thought "Why, why, why did this poor woman not listen to the studio version which is full and not this bastardized video version?! WHY?!" 😂😂😂😂😂
You should consider checking out the song In This River by Black Label Society. As others have mentioned, Daryl "Dimebag" Abbott was unfortunately killed years ago by a so called fan at a show. At the time he was best friends, practically another brother, with another up and coming guitarist named Zakk Wylde who at the time had his band, Black Label Society. At the time Zakk was in a low point and working on this song as a song about the challenges in life, in general. His best friend, Dimebag (now gone), caused him to take this song to and even deeper meaning. It is now considered a tribute to Zakk. If you do, I'm not sure which version you should check out. The official music video IS a tribute to the two of them growing up and, of course, has better audio but there is a live version where he plays it at the Hollywood Guitar World Rock Walk (this is like the Hollywood Walk of Fame but for music artist.) where you can see his emotions really coming out. Overall Zakk is probably not your first ideal impression of a rock star. He's usually really quiet and keeps to himself, very humble and generous but is about 6"6", looks like a gym rat and a straight up Harley-Davidson biker vibes, shreds at guitar but can also play the piano like a damn angel. Zakk has now actually taken over Dimebags place in Pantera and have been touring recently.
I'd imagined since you did I'm broken, your next react would be something in the same category. Saw someone on that comment section calling for Revolution is my Name and you should definetly give it a try. It's a great upright song with amazing guitar riffs. CG is a great one too but it's from a Pantera going through a transition.
Try checking out early Pantera from 1984's Project In The Jungle. The song All Over Tonight. Phenomenal guitar solo by Dimebag who called himself Diamond Darrell back then. Rex Brown was Rex Rocker and they had vocalist Terrence Lee Glaze or Terry Glaze.
This is the edited version of the song. Listen to the album version, there’s alot you’re missing with this edited version. Also, this is the greatest guitar solo in this era of metal.
All the reactors get this wrong, especially the young ones……it’s not a parent and he’s not speaking as a child, but as a young adult/teenager. It’s a lover he’s lost to suicide. The line “I will remember the love our souls had sworn to make”….does that sound like something you’d say to a parent? Sheesh. 😂
Legendary Outro. But as others have noted, the video maker cut some quieter music off the front of it for time. I just remembered... Alex Terrible did a vocal cover of this a few months back. Of course, he didn't try to go high at the end, but went demon voice instead.
Hey, kids. Gen-X metalhead here. Y'see, back in the day, metal and punk were considered 'less-than' by the boomers running the music industry. They didn't hate the money metal and punk brought in, however 'little' it was ('cause similar to gaming and movies these days, you can bring in twice the amount of the production budget in profit, and still 'perform below expectations'), and any chance the CEOs got to fuck a band over, they took it. Henry Rollins and Black Flag literally had to break into the warehouse that their label hid the thousands of already pressed and packed albums in so they could steal said albums and get them out to the fans, 'cause the label decided sitting on them and writing them off on their taxes was _more profitable_ than financing advertisements and distribution. On the basic human need to make and acquire art, not a single fleeting thought was ever wasted by any music CEO with any power. Remember this when they want you to support capitalism, kids: Under capitalism, nobody matters but the shareholders. This and-I-can't-sarc-this-asm-enoughly so-called 'official' video is a masterpiece of a shit chop job. The entire amazing extended intro and the entire first verse of the song cut for... time? AORness? Label CEO caprice? Fuck knows. This video starts a third into the song, and I hate that. Cinematography's okay, and at least they trimmed nothing off the end, but, man... 'radio edits' were a fucking cancer. When you get a chance, listen to the album version. Whispering a curse on the shareholders under your breath the whole time it's playing won't make the experience better, but you might sleep imperceptibly more soundly later.
Everyones talking bout dimes playing but no one mentions phils near-impossible vocals. Even soprano (highest female voice) will struggle to hit such high notes. And theres phil (baritone) going higher and higher
This song is loosely about a suicide pact between two friends, and one friend doesn't follow through with the pact. The tempo and tone shifts go back and forth between contemplation and anger. An old superstition, especially in parts of the Southern US is rolling your car windows up and locking the doors as you pass by a graveyard to prevent picking up unwanted hitchhikers
Hence the lines about being "crucified for no sins" - in other words, placing blame upon ones self for not following through with a deadly promise. I think the character in this song perhaps had a religious or otherwise spiritual hangup about suicide and signed up for more than they really wanted to commit to. "The chance to save my soul, and my concern is now in vain" -- the person feels dead even though they didn't commit suicide because their best friend is gone and they're left alone to deal with that loss. "Unlocking your door "while passing the gates of the graveyard is inviting ghosts into your life, inviting the dead into your world. Trying to reach out to whatever is gone because you don't know what else to do or who else to turn to for closure
The call and response at the end between Phil and the guitar is someone crying out to the dead and a banshee calling back, signifying the death of a family member or someone very intimately close to you. It fades out with a ghostly voice crooning in the background and everything musically dulls out. Burying the past
Wow they hacked the whole beginning of the song out for the video. Rachael, i strongly recommend you check out the full version. It's an epic intro and the whole first verse is missing here.
It’s the brilliance of Pantera. I’ll say it over and over again. What came out of the 80s and 90s metal will never be seen again. Todsy it’s Taylor swift or bust. Sad
The only thing wrong with this song, as far as I'm concerned, is the reverb on the drums. It's just too big, sounds like a parking lot, and takes the punch out of the drums. Other than that, a very nearly flawless song.
R.I.P. Dime and Vinnie 😔😔😔
The album version has an alternate intro with my personal favorite Dimebag solo, set over a piano/accoustic guitar riff
Yooo I forgot all about that version , so frickin good rip to the brothers😢
Yup, the intro is soo good, not worth it to skip.
Album version is better
Rex Brown is playing the acoustic guitar part on the album intro - lot of people don't know it but Rex was behind a lot of the musical ideas behind Pantera's music and the Abbott Brothers were technically adept enough in the studio early on to realize a lot of them
@@neilpatrickhairless Rex had a full scholarship to university to study music but decided he wanted to play music rather than study it.
That “ guitarist “ is one of the greatest guitarist ever.
Dimebag was on another level.
Check out Domination by Pantera.
One of the best solos to date
RIP Dime and Vinnie
Gotta be the live on Moscow one though🤘🎸
@@warwithin7 oh yes
Absolutely
Or Floods, personally my favorite solo
If you weren't into this genre of music you wouldn't know about Dimebag Darrell probably one of the top 10 best guitarists of all time
The way Dime is able to use those harmonics in the rhythm is mind blowing and he can do it flawlessly live too.
It's not hard to hit pinch harmonics once you've been doing them for a little while. Those pitch perfect natural harmonic screams on the whammy bar though are much easier to miss or dampen accidentally. Dime was a God.
Everyone makes the same mistake by reacting to the music video version. It cuts a massive chunk off the beginning of the song and is nowhere near as good.
This! It cuts out the intro and the whole 1st verse
The studio version is much better. The intro is so sweet and sad that makes the song much better.
Anyone finding this band and this song by any means is incredible
@@OffbeatLiteracy I guess. Pantera isn't exactly some obscure band though. Pretty well known throughout. Incredible would be if she reacted to Exodus or a band like that.
i simply dont understand why people play a youtube video while reacting to a song, its kinda obvious that you should react to the studio version when it comes to a song!!
Check out the album cut sometime. There was about 1.5 minutes edited out for the video.
R.I.P. Vinnie and Dime. I still remember exactly where I was when I heard about dimebag being killed on stage. Love this band. This is a band that can always pull me out of a funk
Same. I had just clocked in at work when my foreman who was also a metalhead asked if I heard Dime had been killed. My first thought was he was an asshole for trying to prank me like that. It only took another second or two to realize he wasn't joking. The shop owner always kept a TV turned to the news in the front office so I went in there and saw it on the TV. I was crushed and the rest of the day is just a fog. To this day Pantera is still the band I've seen the most times in concert. RIP Dime and Vinnie.
I was 17 and my Mom told me, and I cried, that was 20 years ago, almost 18 at the time. I cried when Layne Staley passed too
Had seen Shinedown at Starland Ballroom that night, was saying hello to the band after. Barry (drummer) shared about the shooting and Dimebag being killed. And that they had played that venue about a month before.
My mom was trying to tell someone Darryl lance abbot died while I was sleeping... that's what I woke up to in disbelief. And bawled.
Rip Dimebag Darrell and in my opinion Pantera is a band that will stand the test of time it even sounds good to this day in 2024
🎸🎸Probably one of my top 5 metal songs of all time! That outro with the call and response is epic! Plus, Phil had an amazing vocal sustain in his prime. 🎸🎸
The more time that passes I truly believe Dime is the greatest guitarist of my generation. There are so many greats but Dime had something so special that it's left a permanent mark on my soul. A beautiful scar so deep and lasting that the nerve endings musically fuse every atom of my being. RIP Dimebag.
I never saw Pantera but I saw Damageplan and they played this as the first song of the encore and Dimebag slayed it! One of the greatest moments of my life. My friend picked up one of Dimebags picks and Vinnie Paul hit me in the head with a drumstick but it was taken from me. I was 16-17. Insane night.
Top 10 greatest solo of all time.
There will never be another pantera
Well no shit. There will never be another many other unique bands. There will never be another AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Burzum, Darkthrone, Celtic Frost, Mayhem, Ildjarn, Bathory, Slayer, Sodom, Artillery, Sarcófago, Windir, Candlemass, Katatonia and so many others.
I knew she'd love the call and response with Phil and Dime.
Sometimes in life you'll find a musical masterpiece that sticks with you for the rest of your life. A deep bow for these men😊
You should listen to the album version some time. For some reason they cut the real intro of the song out for the music video. The real intro is beautifully haunting with both great lyrics from Anselmo and incredible guitar work from Dime...it completes the song...makes it one of my top 5 songs of all time.
#1 metal 🎸 band of all time.
I believe this song is about the singer losing a loved one and not allowing himself to grieve. Over time he lets himself grieve, deal with the loss and move on. If you have not done 5 Minutes Alone and Floods then this is a must. 2 of the best metal solos ever. Floods is like no other song I have ever heard and very different to any other Pantera song. You should also check out Rime of the Aincent Mariner by Iron Maiden. One of the most epic metal songs ever.
Two words "great rayaction" as always lol. Figured you'd like this one.
Hi Ray, love your reactions.
The song is basically about the character losing a girlfriend and potentially rejoining her in the afterlife.
Either when they die or sooner by committing suicide. Phil has said in interviews that he had found inspirations for the lyrics from good friends who had committed suicide.
On a brighter note, yes, Dimes guitar work is amazing!🤘🤘🤘🤘
I highly recommend you check out the album version if you liked the song. They cut the entire intro and first verse of the song for the video. Great video as usual!
Groove metal at its finest. Also might like "Cowboys from Hell."
A Master piece of 1992!
Yeeeeahhhh, Panteraaaa!!!
My all time favorite Pantera riff. Instant "stank face" every single time.
When you were on the "why" part of your commentating, I thought "Why, why, why did this poor woman not listen to the studio version which is full and not this bastardized video version?! WHY?!" 😂😂😂😂😂
This is still one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I didnt know there were people who still dont know this song.
Great vocal and guitar call and answer at the end!
dime was and will always be the best that ever played guitar
You should consider checking out the song In This River by Black Label Society.
As others have mentioned, Daryl "Dimebag" Abbott was unfortunately killed years ago by a so called fan at a show.
At the time he was best friends, practically another brother, with another up and coming guitarist named Zakk Wylde who at the time had his band, Black Label Society.
At the time Zakk was in a low point and working on this song as a song about the challenges in life, in general.
His best friend, Dimebag (now gone), caused him to take this song to and even deeper meaning.
It is now considered a tribute to Zakk.
If you do, I'm not sure which version you should check out.
The official music video IS a tribute to the two of them growing up and, of course, has better audio but there is a live version where he plays it at the Hollywood Guitar World Rock Walk (this is like the Hollywood Walk of Fame but for music artist.) where you can see his emotions really coming out.
Overall Zakk is probably not your first ideal impression of a rock star.
He's usually really quiet and keeps to himself, very humble and generous but is about 6"6", looks like a gym rat and a straight up Harley-Davidson biker vibes, shreds at guitar but can also play the piano like a damn angel.
Zakk has now actually taken over Dimebags place in Pantera and have been touring recently.
Your hair looks very pretty. Thank you for watching this song and your reaction.
I'd imagined since you did I'm broken, your next react would be something in the same category. Saw someone on that comment section calling for Revolution is my Name and you should definetly give it a try. It's a great upright song with amazing guitar riffs. CG is a great one too but it's from a Pantera going through a transition.
AGUANTE ROCK*PANTERA*CARAJO 🤘🇵🇪
This is one of my favorite metal tracks! You should listen Dream theater it's a pretty cool band!!
Try checking out early Pantera from 1984's Project In The Jungle. The song All Over Tonight. Phenomenal guitar solo by Dimebag who called himself Diamond Darrell back then. Rex Brown was Rex Rocker and they had vocalist Terrence Lee Glaze or Terry Glaze.
This is the edited version of the song. Listen to the album version, there’s alot you’re missing with this edited version. Also, this is the greatest guitar solo in this era of metal.
One of my fav song... And Anselmo is really looking guy
Pantera - the sleep
More PanterA 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I strongly recommend the entire Vulgar Display Of Power album, that album has some of the tastiest riffs out there.
All the reactors get this wrong, especially the young ones……it’s not a parent and he’s not speaking as a child, but as a young adult/teenager. It’s a lover he’s lost to suicide. The line “I will remember the love our souls had sworn to make”….does that sound like something you’d say to a parent? Sheesh. 😂
I wish reactors would quit finding this cut version of the song and people would direct them to the original album version.
Fucking CLASSIC
React to the full/real version
Slash ft myles kennedy n the conspirator "anastasia".
Legendary Outro. But as others have noted, the video maker cut some quieter music off the front of it for time.
I just remembered... Alex Terrible did a vocal cover of this a few months back. Of course, he didn't try to go high at the end, but went demon voice instead.
Hey, kids. Gen-X metalhead here. Y'see, back in the day, metal and punk were considered 'less-than' by the boomers running the music industry. They didn't hate the money metal and punk brought in, however 'little' it was ('cause similar to gaming and movies these days, you can bring in twice the amount of the production budget in profit, and still 'perform below expectations'), and any chance the CEOs got to fuck a band over, they took it.
Henry Rollins and Black Flag literally had to break into the warehouse that their label hid the thousands of already pressed and packed albums in so they could steal said albums and get them out to the fans, 'cause the label decided sitting on them and writing them off on their taxes was _more profitable_ than financing advertisements and distribution. On the basic human need to make and acquire art, not a single fleeting thought was ever wasted by any music CEO with any power.
Remember this when they want you to support capitalism, kids: Under capitalism, nobody matters but the shareholders.
This and-I-can't-sarc-this-asm-enoughly so-called 'official' video is a masterpiece of a shit chop job. The entire amazing extended intro and the entire first verse of the song cut for... time? AORness? Label CEO caprice? Fuck knows. This video starts a third into the song, and I hate that.
Cinematography's okay, and at least they trimmed nothing off the end, but, man... 'radio edits' were a fucking cancer.
When you get a chance, listen to the album version. Whispering a curse on the shareholders under your breath the whole time it's playing won't make the experience better, but you might sleep imperceptibly more soundly later.
Pleeeeeeeeease react to the album version! It's so much better with the album intro! Your hair is amazing as well btw 🤙
IN THIS RIVER by ZAKK WYLDE is a great song that is a tribute to DIMEBAG
🤘🏼🤘🏼🎸🥁🤘🏼🤘🏼
please react pantera floods, that song has the greatest guitar solo ever
I'm requesting a Coal Chamber - Sway/Big Truck/Loco it's very good bcz it's a nu-metal🤘
We need the music louder! XD
One of the best solos is the sleep of the cowboys from hell album
You should react that real version. This one was some music tv tshit version
Little tip here.. ALWAYS react to a song's original version first
Sadly this is the single edit. The album version is even better as it's nearly 2 mins longer and the guitar gets to shine even more.
PLEASE DO HOLLOW BY PANTERA
RAQUELLEN!!!
I remember watching the news when it broke that Dimebag had been killed..
By the way, Dimebag was mimicking him with the guitar and the Wah-Wah and the pinch harmonics
Whammy bar and pinched harmonics.
Have you done cowboys from hell yet? That should be your next Pantera song to react to imo 😜
ALSO PLEASE DO PYSCHO HOLIDAY
🤘
Everyones talking bout dimes playing but no one mentions phils near-impossible vocals. Even soprano (highest female voice) will struggle to hit such high notes. And theres phil (baritone) going higher and higher
This song was first.😊
This song is loosely about a suicide pact between two friends, and one friend doesn't follow through with the pact. The tempo and tone shifts go back and forth between contemplation and anger. An old superstition, especially in parts of the Southern US is rolling your car windows up and locking the doors as you pass by a graveyard to prevent picking up unwanted hitchhikers
Hence the lines about being "crucified for no sins" - in other words, placing blame upon ones self for not following through with a deadly promise. I think the character in this song perhaps had a religious or otherwise spiritual hangup about suicide and signed up for more than they really wanted to commit to. "The chance to save my soul, and my concern is now in vain" -- the person feels dead even though they didn't commit suicide because their best friend is gone and they're left alone to deal with that loss. "Unlocking your door "while passing the gates of the graveyard is inviting ghosts into your life, inviting the dead into your world. Trying to reach out to whatever is gone because you don't know what else to do or who else to turn to for closure
The call and response at the end between Phil and the guitar is someone crying out to the dead and a banshee calling back, signifying the death of a family member or someone very intimately close to you. It fades out with a ghostly voice crooning in the background and everything musically dulls out. Burying the past
React to STMLT - twilight
You should react to Brand of Sacrifice next time
Pantera - walk reac❤
Plesse react to Inamorata - Metallica!
Big vibes from Costa Rica
Wow they hacked the whole beginning of the song out for the video. Rachael, i strongly recommend you check out the full version. It's an epic intro and the whole first verse is missing here.
It’s the brilliance of Pantera. I’ll say it over and over again. What came out of the 80s and 90s metal will never be seen again. Todsy it’s Taylor swift or bust. Sad
I'd never considered that it might be about his mother's passing.
Take a shot of Seagram's 7 every time someone says this is the wrong version
alcohol poisoning speedrun🤣
React to Love Hate Love. Live at the Moore by Alice in Chains.
The Abbott Brothers Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell are talents that are surely missed. Dimebag could make that guitar sing
Holy monkey Town Rachel!!!!
You look so beautiful today in blue😂❤😊
That wasn’t the intro. This was a shortened version for MTV. There is a longer video that has the actual intro.
Slipknot - Disasterpiece london 2002!!! pls!!
F'ing Dimebag! What a horrible loss. Also. Phil is no slouch on vocals.
Guys, I had to euthanize my horse. I'm still here, lurking, watching Pantera videos, but its more for a distraction right now. Lords unmatched.
that's not the intro, gotta find the album version for the actual intro.
Slipknot Disasterpiece London 2002
this was about his best friends death
Dimebag.
PanterA
Do reaction Andy James war march
Dimebag was the best!
Why is the intro to this song on every review always left out!
11822 Eldred Light
Why didn’t you comment on the high notes, just the guitar? I thought this was “singer reacts”
Ah the cut version. This is almost a skip... You gotta check that one out.
Why this one ….please react to official audio version of this song😢
What you were thinking
Why does everyone skip the long one?
please dont include panic at the disco in the same sentence as pantera
where prequel reaction?
The only thing wrong with this song, as far as I'm concerned, is the reverb on the drums.
It's just too big, sounds like a parking lot, and takes the punch out of the drums.
Other than that, a very nearly flawless song.