Previously Unreleased DIMEBAG Solo To Appear On New NICKELBACK Album - Aug. 18, 2005 Jon Wiederhorn of
MTV.com is reporting that a previously unreleased solo by late
PANTERA and
DAMAGEPLAN guitarist
Dimebag Darrell will appear this fall in an unlikely place: on
NICKELBACK's new album,
"All the Right Reasons". The guitar parts for the flailing, 24-second lead were donated by
Darrell's brother, drummer
Vinnie Paul, and assembled from outtakes from the
PANTERA albums
"Vulgar Display of Power" and
"Far Beyond Driven".
The song, a tribute to
Darrell titled
"Side of a Bullet", was written three months after the guitarist was killed while performing onstage with
DAMAGEPLAN in Columbus, Ohio.
NICKELBACK mainman
Chad Kroeger first penned the song's aggressive, metallic riff, then wrote call-and-response lyrics from the perspective of a
PANTERA fan so enraged over
Dimebag's murder that he vows revenge, not realizing the shooter had already been killed by a policeman.
"I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry,"
Kroeger told
MTV.com. "I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before — it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful."
Once
Kroeger finished demoing
"Side of a Bullet", he called up
Paul and played it to him to get his take on the tune.
Paul liked what he heard and urged
Kroeger to write lyrics about
Dime. "I said, 'Well, funny enough, that song is about your brother,' "
Kroeger recalled.
Paul volunteered to play on the song, so
Kroeger overnighted him the tape and encouraged him to record a new drum track over the one played by
NICKELBACK drummer
Daniel Adair. "He thought about it for a while,"
Kroeger said, "then he decided that
Daniel had done such an amazing job that we should leave it the way it was. That's when he sent the guitar parts from
'Vulgar Display of Power' and
'Far Beyond Driven', which we used for the solo."
I've heard the song and its BADASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it was friggin' Nickelback?? You must hear this song "Side of a Bullet" if you haven't already!
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