He's the Terrence Malick of hip-hop. He makes his own rules – 'F*** a release date, f*** time' – and you're trying to put him on a television timetable. | | | | Elton John facing an impossible situation in goal, Vicarage Road stadium, Watford, England, April 1974.
(Michael Putland/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “He's the Terrence Malick of hip-hop. He makes his own rules – 'F*** a release date, f*** time' – and you're trying to put him on a television timetable.”
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| | rantnrave:// Rock history is full up with talented siblings who figured out how to get along and others who, um, didn't. PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN co-founders VINNIE PAUL and DIMEBAG DARRELL (born and raised in Texas as Vinnie Paul Abbott and Darrell Lance Abbott, sons of country songwriter/producer JERRY ABBOTT) were high up in the hard-rock and metal pantheon with ANGUS and MALCOLM YOUNG as brothers who used their nearly supernatural connection for the greater headbanging good. The greater good, in their case, was some of the most influential metal of the 1990s, built not so much on Vinnie's pummelling precision drumming or Darrell's lightning-speed guitar heroics as on the way the brothers intuitively locked into each other's playing. I mean, this. They were the EVERLY BROTHERS of metal groove makers. Pantera producer TERRY DATE on why he asked Vinnie to be by his side whenever he was recording Darrell: "They were so much one person, they didn't even need to talk; if something was not right, they would just look at each other and they would know." They were also, by all accounts, uncommonly nice dudes, generous to a fault with their fans, inseparable from each other. Vinnie was onstage, a few feet away, when Darrell was murdered during a Damageplan show in Columbus, Ohio, in 2004, one of the most horrific rock deaths ever. Vinnie, who had just finished his parts for an album by his band HELLYEAH, died Friday in Las Vegas, at age 54; the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL reported he had a heart attack. May the two of them roar in peace, together forever... What it was like to sit right behind the monster known as Vinnie Paul... Vinnie Paul's influence on the country music underground... Tweet and consequences: THE LIFE OF PABLO "will never never never be on APPLE. And it will never be for sale," KANYE WEST tweeted on Feb. 15, 2016. "You can only get it on TIDAL." Do you even need to ask where "The Life of Pablo" could be found six weeks later? And are you surprised a U.S. district judge has allowed a fan's lawsuit accusing West and Tidal of deceptive marketing to go forward?... A crash course in K-pop... A crash course in reggaeton... A crash course in contemporary Mongolian pop... KENDRICK LAMAR and SZA among top BET AWARDS winners; MEEK MILL stays woke with XXXTENTACION on his chest... RIP REBECCA PARRIS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The thing that I connected with most was the relationship Dimebag and his brother Vinnie had. On stage they were beautiful. Two awkward but boisterous guys who turned into children when they were in front of an audience. They hugged each other and kissed each other on the cheek – when they posed with fans it was often in huge bear hugs. | | |
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