Every Band Wants To Be Pantera?

. (Classic Rock) Former Pantera bassist Rex Brown insists every band wants to be Panetra. And he says the impact he, guitarist Dimebag Darrell, drummer Vinnie Paul and frontman Phil Anselmo had only happens once in a lifetime.

He tells Songfacts: "Every band out there wants to be Pantera. I'm not patting myself on the back when I say that, it's just fact. They're trying to get the riffs and they'll never have it. They'll never get it. It takes the four of us.

"You can't just throw three of the original guys out of Slayer and expect to sound like Slayer, it's just not going to work. Just one of those things. You run across that once in a lifetime and you just fight for it, and that's what we did with the band."

The Kill Devil Hill bassist, who reflects on the death of Dimebag in the latest issue of Metal Hammer, also reveals Pantera found it difficult finishing the writing and recording process as they wanted everything to be perfect before laying down material. He continues: "We were such perfectionists in what we did. Really a lot of the time the thought process was thrown through the door, and it just came out naturally - it didn't feel contrived. That was the beauty of it. Read more here.

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