Dimebag loved the BROWN sound.

[Coyote]

...the fuck you on, Gar?

[GAR]

This is the "Dimebag loved the Brownsound" thread, but I don't see many of you Abbot apologists posting any comparisons.

I do see a lot of "he was great cuz I say so" and "you're just jealous."

I'm paying attention - edumacate me! What did Abbot do that was so groundshatteringly great? I wanna know!

[Coyote]

"Shredding during an era when shredding was verboten" not good enough for ya?

[jhale667]

"Shredding during an era when shredding was verboten" not good enough for ya?

Exactly. And "didn't do a lot of lead work"? Geez, more proof he's as angry and uninformed as the teabaggers...

[ELVIS]

Here's a news flash, Garfunkel...

Dime was a great guitarist with his own style who worshipped original Van Halen...

'Nuff said...

[jhale667]

Here's a news flash, Garfunkel...

Dime was a great guitarist with his own style who worshipped original Van Halen...

'Nuff said...

You still have occasional cool moments...

[GAR]

Wow, newsflash! I get it finally "Dimebag loved VH" and tried to emulate Ed.. it's like I found religion!

Unfortunately, Dimebag also loved too much food, drugs, booze and disturbed music to style over (in that order).

[jhale667]

OK, that's funny...a guy who's by his own admission overweight talking about someone "loving food too much"...pot (belly) meet kettle...

[GAR]

I'm not the one going out onstage.

[lesfunk]

Wel,l if Dime did love the brown sound, he certainly did not try to emulate it.

[vanhalenrocks]

GARfail....

You don't care for Dimebag. We get it.
Who the fuck are you to judge him as a person? He was 10 times the human being you'll ever be.
Saying he hid behind booze and drugs? Pfft, puhleeease.You must have run with a bunch us candy asses when you were growing up.
He lived R&R 24/7. Full on 100 %
On the other hand...You are a worthless bitter troll on a message board. Dime worked his ass off to get to his status. You are simply a jealous sack of shit who's achived fuck all. Hell, you couldn't a single riff or fill in that video and you know it...
Now go eat a bag of dicks and stay the fuck out of Gear Street!

[ELVIS]

You still have occasional cool moments...

You too, but don't tell anyone...

[jhale667]

You too, but don't tell anyone...

K, secret's safe...

[GAR]

Wel,l if Dime did love the brown sound, he certainly did not try to emulate it.

Thanks, Les!

Dime used solid-state Randalls on the recordings he's known for, because he was a cheap-ass. They had MOSFET transistors which have clipping characteristics more like tubes than pure-silicon transistors, but still not really tube and not a really warm sound.

His speakers weren't greenbacks, either. Alot of the warmth of the Brownsound is in the character of the speaker's sensitivity range which is why Dime's tone was kinda limited and muffled - buzzy, really IMO.

Apparently he didn't love the brownsound's "sound" enough to use the quite-available components required for such a sound.

[jhale667]

You don't get it. Much like a neutered dog.

He loved Eddie's tone but specifically didn't try to emulate it. He set out to find his own.

Here's the video of his visit to the Krank factory, after he'd switched to their (TUBE) amps.



As he says here "Roll with it or get rolled the fuck over."