Dimebag Darrell's Original Dean From Hell Started as THIS?! - 1981 Dean ML Review
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Today we check out a vintage 1981 Dean ML, which was the recipe for Dimebag Darrell's original Dean from Hell in the Pantera days!
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I'm literally 17 and I just got into dimebag Darrell about a year ago and I found you and you're just the guy I've been looking forward to tell me all the good shit that Dimebag did
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Nice video man! I own 5 of three guitars. Absolutely awesome instruments. However, not to be that guy, but buddy blaze actually gifted the guitar back to him after adding the Floyd, paint, and bill Lawrence pup. He said "hey man, the guitar is yours anyway". Awsome story.
he didnt gift the guitar back. He had to pay 2500 for it. There's video on youtube of him telling the story.
@@aitorcfh That was after it was stolen, he had to pay to get it back. Buddy gave him the guitar in exchange for a Gibson V and originally Buddy was going to make a custom guitar for Dime but gave him the DFH as he couldn't find the time to paint one up for him and said "it was yours anyway so you may as well have it back."
@@aitorcfh Context and research, makes all the difference. Watch it GO!!!
Which guitars do you own bro??
I like the original natural color of the ML, very old school
Thank you for this, great mini documentary for sure..Excellent playing too. I loved the Washburns for some reason and noticed he started using them in mid to late 94. After seeing Pantera live in early 99 with Black Sabbath, that was it. I had to have one of his USA models. It took me an eternity and a half to finally own one. The one I bought was a Washburn USA Southern Cross, and it was mint. After about only 3 years of owning it, the poo hit the fan really bad with employment and life, so had to sell it.
Thanks! I can't believe you owned a Southern Cross at one point! I managed to play one a few times and it's an amazing guitar. Would be awesome if we could both find one!
Cool video on an iconic guitar. Picked up a black Razorback used at guitar center bout 5 years ago... Probably one of my favorite guitars I've owned. Dean really came back in a big way for the development and marketing of Dimebag's signature line. I've played a buddies Washburn Stealth a couple times and I have to admit the Washburn's did feel alot nicer and may have even played slightly better than some of the later Dean's (like mine)
I'd love a stealth one day
thanks for this video ! huge grin on my face when you said companies all try to go back to the simplified tried and true iteration guitar. ( not the expensive end)
Most accurate version I've seen yet. You can tell it has the rolled binding too. Top mount floyd.
what do you mean by rolled the binding?
Neat video dude. Sweet new find! Congrats 🤘
Thanks buddy! It's a buddy's I worked on, but I'd love to own a vintage Dean.
I have an 82 Cadillac v neck brass on brass, an 86 Hollywood baby Z, and my absolute pride and joy…83 Baby ML (the coolest, most unique guitar I own). On top of that I have a 2001 79 silver burst ML and a 2004 Michael Shenker V STD. I love Dean guitars and I’m not the biggest Dime fan. They are quite underrated shred machines
Also I absolutely love all the content you make brother
Thank you 🤝
Sounds really cool. Love it 👍
How would that guitar not be ‘cool’? It’s iconic! Dimebag really championed the ML and therefore it deserves the monicker ‘Dimebag guitar’, and that ought toi be nuff said :-)
Nice more content on dime guitars brother!
This was awesome. ive owned some production dime deans, a stealth and a dime o flame. i miss them both i had to sell em to pay bills. keep up the sick vids man
Thanks man! I hope you can get your dimes back one day!
Hey man awesome you sharing this just a question about the bridge pup ive been looking for that for so long im guessing its still a bill Lawrence xl500 but with the metal surround ? Any more info if you know where to get these from would be great if you knew anything ?
Hey thanks! Keep checking the used market for the chrome housing OBL 500XL. They're rare but they come up
Very cool sounds really good!
Thanks!
the reason why its light is bcs the wood is dry after 40 years
Kinda a motorhead tone at the beginning. Such a beautiful guitar, love that burst and love the look of those OBLs
Can't beat the chrome housing OBL!
Bro you make the best videos for dimebag enjoyers
Thank you 🤘
Daaayyym nice playing dude 🤟🤟🤟
Thanks!
@@EricMorettin I have the Dean USA Rust from hell. It's also surprisingly light and plays like a dream, way lighter that my 333 slime 🤘
Nice insight man, Even though I have a USA slime, an original old Dean would still be the holy grail for me if it played well.
Also one interesting thing for me which I don't see many people talk about when it comes to top-mounted floyd guitars is that the body's aren't parallel with the neck, so you have more clearance between the strings and body around the bridge pup area, it's a subtle difference, but as someone who picks with their pinky and ring fingers flailing about aimlessly a lot of the time, it makes a bit of difference having the strings further away from the body and gives more freedom of movement for my picking hand! How does it feel to you? ..If you've even noticed it that is.🤣
Cheers man! Love your slime as well. These guitars are really cool and the whole "if you know, you know" applies to them. Personally they both feel great. I grew up playing both styles of trems, wether it was a floyd or 2 point top mount trem. I don't think I prefer one to the other since I like how the feel of the guitar can change by that. Keeps things interesting in my opinion!
you, sir have earned a sub!
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Awesome video!!! Love that guitar man.. I’m really curious how the Floyd Rose was installed? I own an 81 Dean ML and I want to install a Floyd on mine. But the guitar body is really thin and the neck angle is really pitched.. Was wondering how it’s done? I’d really appreciate your advice Thank You 🤘🏻
@@anthonypicardy thanks! It was top routed so there's only a top route for the block to sit in and not the actual bridge. Back routing for the springs and claw is the same tho
Great video and very interesting . I love that guitar and the story behind it
Thanks for checking it out 😎
Where did you find this guitar ?
@@VinnieB7 my friend bought it through a private sale
Listening to this and thinking retrospectively, Dimebag was a huge contribution to Djent. Pantera started in 83, Meshuggah started releasing in May 1991. Cowboys from Hell came out in July 1990. Thrash legends like Metallica and Megadeth I think are also big contributors to Djent and Nu-Metal was a baby version worshipping the riff and drop tunings. Korn started releasing in 1994. There was a solid metal scene in the 1990's running under the more mainstream friendly Grunge. I would also consider someone like Wes Borland from Bizkit to be from the same family of Industrial Metal Instrument sounds. But Dimebag also helped popularise the "Active" sound by using solid state amps with ultra high output Lawrence/Duncans. Now Dimarzio, Seymour Duncan and Bareknuckle have expanded their catalogues with ultra high output, ceramic style bridge pickups with triple bar ceramic magnets. Borland plays a Duncan Invader which is also in this passive philosophy for brutal bridge pickups. Megadeth and Metallica have either high output actives or modern sounding passives. Meshuggah are famous for their contemporary high output passive pickups from Lungren encouraging the "active sound". Dime left a huge imprint.
Nice!! Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching!
Awesome fiddle!
It sure is!
My first concert was in 91 White zombie Pantera and Megadeth
killer playing
Thank you!
Saw your post in the dime group and had to check this out. There was a guy in Europe who had one just like this a while back I think, or the guy who did the Floyd and other fittings was from somewhere in the eu I don’t remember. I just remember falling in love with the color of the guitar. I have a 97 ml ultra I’m trying to have rewired after I glued the scarf joint back together
Thanks! This one did come from Europe and my buddy owns it now.
@@EricMorettin damn man. Y’all guys are lucky. I’d sell an organ to get one. I’m kinda disabled after a wreck at 20 years old and worked for the family business didn’t have insurance. I’m trying to do what work I can but it’s not even enough to have a car payment or a living situation payment.
I have the same guitar another 81 but it's in terrible condition. It had been repainted twice and one of the finishes was not even paint it was like this rubber glue as someone thought it would be nice to have a pink paisley finish that was semi transparent.. then the next coating on top was a mad green sparkley which was cool but wrong on an ML
The finishing at some point ruined the binding so it's all got to come off and redone. As I stripped the finishes off I found out it was originally brown like yours so its nice to see what it looked like originally. 👍
It's been in my possession for 10 plus years at this point and I still undecided on what I should do finish wise to it.
Would love to see it!
Since its been through hell and back thanks to whoever owned it originally, the Dean from Hell would be quite appropriate.
Back in the 1980's they used to sell ML dean guitars in the Montgomery Ward catalog for $99.00 ...i Remember wishing having one but mom said no that's a lot of money when I was thirty-five years old I bought one from musicians friend for six hundred dollars lime green .
I would love to buy a quality ML for those 80s prices.
I didn't know the Washburn was asymmetrical, I knew the headstock was, but the body mirrors the headstock.
Yes the body and headstock are offset for trademark reasons
all around awesome!
Thannk you!
Great DEMO!!!!
Thanks 🤘
Good job kid.👍
Thank you!
You never showed the back of the guitar : ( I wanted to see how they did the routing for the floyd
Exactly the same as every other Floyd cavities with a few exceptions!
I’ve been wanting Dean Dimebag Guitars unfortunately I might never get the chance
Were this old 80's Deans all made in USA? Also,, how is the neck shape? Does it have the 'V' shape? Lots of cool & exciting infos I didn't know, so thanks again for the great content! \m/
Thank you! These were made in Chicago as far as I know, and it has one of the most pronounced V shape necks that I've played.
@@EricMorettin Yeyy! Thanks for the reply as well as for the great Dimebag contents!
@@AttilaVorosOfficial thank you for the support brother 👏
When you look at the Bill Lawrence pickup and it has it's own case with epoxy to fill the gaps. Funny dime didn't just do the same with his neck pickups to stop strings getting caught on dive bombs on the way back. Any colour, open top pickup cover in brass or nickel.
New mold for Dat type stuff...several thousand dollars. Electric tape....STILL! $1.25 for 50 yards 3/4" wide if ir ain't broke, why fix it? 😂
@@XCromX66 he did change the most logical solution which is an open pickup cover and solder it to the base plate
Did you buy this from Finland? I had one which looked exactly like this, with that non-yellowed headstock logo and all so was wondering if this was my old guitar :)
This is not my guitar, but the work was done by a company in Finland! My friend got this guitar from a mutual friend in England.
@@EricMorettin work as in the Floyd Rose? If that's the case that's indeed my old guitar.
@@lessthanthreeband yes, since it started life as a string through guitar. Great guitar!
@@EricMorettin Nice to see it in a video. I think I acquired that one around maybe 2005-2007? I bought it from Netherlands IIRC through Dean forum. Was looking the guitar like that for the obvious reasons so it had to have a floyd to put in. The work was done by Ruokangas Guitars (and I remember I hated that the route looked like a graded cheese with that bridge pickup peeking through the routing :D). We also debated whether it had a headstock repair because of that white logo and the barely seeable serial number but Ruokangas couldn't confirm if it was broken before (I guess even if it was it was done well as he couldn't figure whether itd had one done or not) I played a few shows with this guitar but never really liked the sound of it so I eventually traded it for a Jackson SL1. Now looking at it after years it looks so pretty haha. I build guitars myself nowadays so it'd be so fun to still have this around and maybe do a DFH replica out of it. I was offered this back in a trade like a... couple of months? back but wasn't interested, but still. Pretty guitar :)
yeah bro ive had 3 weashburns inports 2 werre completykly stripped so did a custom paint on both the third v332 i put a floyd on top mount. i own 2 deaNS A dof DIME O FLAME and a little black dean strat i put a lock nut on it so io can swap string gauges out alot esier than replaCING A NUT. AND NO I DO NOT USE THE LOCKIHNG PADS just nut. vary cool .
How neck heavy are these ML's?.....i see you have many maybe can talk about the balance on these weight and neck dive differances :) ....Cheers
Awesome
Great video man, thanks for the info!
You have a video talking bout the Dean Bbolt ?
Thanks! No Dean BBolt video here
@@EricMorettin
I’m subscribed now, I hope one day you can make one 🙏
Thanks for answer bro, nice content!
@@oscar_valdillo thank you! Cheers!
Subscribed! What non American made affordable Dimebag guitar can you recommend. Obviously if I could afford the U.S. made I 💯% would but not gonna happen ha. Looking forward to checking out all your previous videos man. Thank you in advance
Thanks! I'd say a Deank ML 79, or any Dimebag signature you can get for a really good price.
@Eric Morettin thank you for responding! I'm look forward to learning more about Dimebag and Pantera. I'm practicing with a Ibanez RG470 currently
@@theaveragejoebody that's a great guitar. Stay subscribed since Dimebag is my specialty and I try to cover as much of him as I can.
Great video. Can you tell me what company your green amp is? RIP Dimebag and Vinnie Paul!!! Fkn Hostile Forever!!!
Thanks! Revv amps from Canada 🇨🇦
UA-cam's captions spelled his name as "Dimebag Daryl" and rage started to come up a little bit
heres what i figured out the string through Ml the bridge pickup is not in the same position as the bridge pickup on a floyd ML .
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Setup video?
Do you still have the sleep terror gig? Convince Luke to come to Utah if so. I hope you get the chance to come tour the states and I'm so happy somebody at such a high level still appreciated dimebag.
THE Dean Zielinski Dean.
Yo bro dont you wanna sell that guitar?
Not for sale, sorry.
FK yes!!!!
did you know that if you break 20 $1000+ guitars it does a glitch and spawns in a 100K banknote? Very op glitch pls patch in next update
interesting attempt at being funny
So it was a string through with tuneomatic and you routed it for floating trem?
Routing was done by someone in Finland years ago.
No he had a fixed bridge dean ml that buddy blaze later hot rodded
It wasn't that color either
I hope you read my comment. I see that you have a top mounted Floyd Rose on your 81 ML. Do you think I would be able to do the same thing to a USA ML Time Capsule? It has a tune-o-matic bridge right now.
Hey yeah you can do the same, but it'll obviously cost. This guitar started life with a stop tail bridge as well
@@EricMorettin so I shouldn't have any issues then with it being done? Like neck issues or anything of that nature?
@@dylangajdosik964 as far as I know you should be good. Talk to some luthiers in your area and get their opinion as well. Might be better to find a ML with a Floyd already installed.
@@EricMorettin thanks bud. I appreciate you talking with me. This is a USA model though for a pretty decent price. I really was hoping that this wouldn't be a huge issue to solve.
@@dylangajdosik964 you're welcome. Personally I'd keep the USA as is and get another import ML with a Floyd with the money you'd save in parts, and routing.
Gr8 tone
Thanks!
Have you heard that dean have moved production of the ml guitar to India and the quality has gone down
Yeah some import models are made in India, and others are made in Korea. They still have the USA line though. I can't comment on the new offerings since I haven't played anything new from Dean.
@@EricMorettin I'm a little worried as I've bought a dean ml fbd and was meant to be delivered Saturday but gear4music Thay delivered the wrong guitar a flying v and the guitar in the box says made in India and I can see defects on the guitar ,I hope the ml is of a better standard
Cool axe fx brah
Sounds great here eh?
It’s called tobacco burst
Entirely the wrong tone. Cut those mids.
This video doesn't focus on the tone
Which neck pickup is that?
Dimarzio super distortion
What is the whole craze over the USA made ML's.. i had a chance to play a 2008 Korean Dime Slime ML and i kid you not it was far superior imo. After playing that i kinda lost 100% of my interest in ''being a proud owner of a USA made ML'' im gonna save myself like 4 grand and get the Korean ML lol its better and (IMO) the natural backs look like shit.. almost like it was unfinished or incomplete.
But ya back to my original question.. what do you guys think all the hype around the USA ML's vs Korean ML's are about? My best guess is patriotic enthusiasm, and thats cool im down with ♪♫ America Fuck Ya ♪♫.....but im not gonna waste 4 grand on hype.
For me, it's the build quality and the neck shape. The only import that came close to a 2000s USA was the earlier made in China DFH. That felt identical to my 05 USA DFH. The 80s USA Deans are something else though.
Buddy gave him the guitar.
So.
Killer 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks bud 🤘