The guitarist who was buried with Eddie Van Halen’s guitar is simply known as Dimebag Darrell
Almost every guitarist considers their guitar to be an extension of their body at least fifty percent of the time. Seeing a musician onstage shredding innumerable licks and wowing audiences is comparable to watching a warrior fight in a terrible combat with their instrument as their sword. This is because the musician is performing in a manner that is similar to how knights used to perform during these times. Before Eddie Van Halen glimpsed the other side of death, he made sure that one of his guitars would be buried with Dimebag Darrell. This was before he discovered that everyone has a point in their lives when they are forced to lay down their weapons.
Before Van Halen began working their magic with Sammy Hagar, Darrell had already been a student of everything that Eddie had ever done. This was done before Van Halen began working their magic. Darrell would routinely win every single guitar competition in his home state of Texas, many of which involved him playing the solo piece ‘Eruption’ on his own. This was several years before Pantera was formed, which is the band that people know today.
As soon as he was exposed to the world of heavier metal bands like Slayer and Metallica, Pantera transformed into an entirely other entity. Albums such as Vulgar Display of Power and Cowboys From Hell were the result of Texas swing music colliding with heavy metal, complete with the most vicious grooves that anyone has ever headbanged to. These albums were released under the direction of Phil Anselmo, a professional growler.
Although there has been a lot of questionable material that has surfaced about past members of Pantera when the band was at the height of their popularity, Darrell has always been the one that everyone wanted to party with. Aside from the fact that he had a heart of gold, he was more than content to simply be one of the guys whenever he played. The majority of the time, he could be seen jamming with people in between gigs or drinking a drink at the bar.
Despite the fact that Darrell Paul and his brother Vinnie Paul had begun their own project with Damageplan, everything came to an abrupt and untimely end at a club gig in Ohio. Onstage, a fan with a mental illness took the life of Darrell just as the band was in the middle of performing their first song. This tragic event has left a tremendous void in the hearts of metal fans all around the world.
In the event that Darrell was indeed gone, he was going to be laid to rest in a manner that was comparable to a Viking funeral, and Eddie was well aware of the appropriate approach to honor the guitarist. “There’s Eddie Van Halen talking at the funeral service,” Terry Glaze, a former vocalist for Pantera, recalls saying. Both Darrell and his instrument are placed inside the casket by him. This is the guitar that was used in Van Halen II. It’s the guitar, that’s for sure. In the event that someone had told Darrell, “When you pass away, Van Halen is going to put that guitar in the casket,” he would have responded by saying, “Kill me now.”
On the other hand, it wasn’t totally unreasonable to draw parallels between Eddie’s playing and this one. Despite the fact that Darrell had a style that was uniquely his own, listening to the way that he utilized feedback and his whammy bar on songs such as “Cemetery Gates” was not all that unlike to the way that Eddie was able to manipulate his instrument to produce a variety of noises that were reminiscent of aliens.
To put it another way, Eddie’s offer to set the guitar in the ground with Darrell was more of a tribute to the contributions that the Pantera guitarist made to the metal genre. However, in a world full of wannabes, Darrell was the smart learner who took everything that Eddie did and pushed it even further. Eddie was still the master, but Darrell was the more experienced student.