Spaz,
If there was a way to buy you a drink I would do it...!
You were totally on the money with that one my friend...I'm getting a signal now...thank you thank you thank you!
BTW...I was in a road band years ago that was touring through Texas around the same time that Dime first started touring with Pantera, we used to play a lot of the same clubs and got to know each other in that rival band kind of way.
My band broke up and of course Pantera went on to become the great metal band that they were...I was hanging out in a club down in Dallas one night (Dallas City Limits...I even played there a few times with a band called Voodoo Militia) since I was dating this hot little bartender I got to hang inside the club after they closed...well...here comes Dime and Vinnie who were in town recording and I'll be damned, Dime totally remembered me!...knew my name and everything...i probably hadn't seen him in 5 years.
I got to hang around with the brothers a bit as one of my best buds who was also a bartender was their FAVORITE bartender and so I got to re-kindle my friendship with Dime for a short while.
I got older...moved to Tulsa...got married and had a whole slew of kids, quit doing the band thing and just fooled around with recording for myself...and didn't really think about Dime all that much until I heard the horrible news.
Such a great guy...such a total waste...
Anyway...it always blew my mind that he had remembered me.
Thanks again for the help...
L8.