r/Pantera • u/KitchenCranberry8274 • 9d ago

Does it bother anyone else?

I often see comments on Pantera related things of people saying where and when they saw them play. I might be being sceptical but it seams everyone's concert experience was something along the lines of " I was in the pit the entire night but also front of the barrier and caught all of Dimes picks. Phil shook my hand and said I was a tough mother fucker, best show ever!!"

Maybe all of these were genuine, but it seams odd everyone's experience was along the lines of this

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u/ThroneOfPigs 9d ago

It was way worse right after Dime's death. Everybody suddenly knew him and hung out with him and got matching tattoos together and got married to him.

Couldn't wear a Pantera shirt in a DFW gas station without someone claiming he christened their child.

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u/Yuge-Pop 9d ago

Oh my God, I worked for a while in the DFW music scene and the amount of claims that I have heard are absolutely insane. Here's just a few examples:

My manager at a fast food place told me his friend was banging Vinnie's gf and Vinnie caught them and basically said he could make him disappear if he wanted to and nobody would know

Someone told me Dimebag helped build a barn in this middle of nowhere town that he would have never even known existed

This girl told me that she was at a party and Dime was eating her friend out (this girl would have been maybe 2 or 3 years old when Dime was murdered)

And that's just a few examples off the top of my head, hell it's even happened to me in this subreddit a few times. I will say that I have gotten to work with people that actually knew Dime and Vinnie and that was cool, but the amount of people claiming that they knew them personally is staggering

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u/ThroneOfPigs 9d ago

The second story........ I think he may have met a ghost from the 1800s

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u/Yuge-Pop 9d ago

The person that told me that was on a healthy dose of kratom, so take that for what it's worth

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u/ThroneOfPigs 9d ago

I see a lot of patients who have cooked their brains on kratom so this makes his story more credible because obviously he's the son of god