Rex Brown on SBL

[SteveXFR]

This an interesting interview with the most under appreciated member of Pantera.

 

 

 

If you're not aware of his work, have a listen to this. The bass behind the guitar solo is absolutely brilliant. He does such a good job of backing up Dime's guitar wizardry 

 

 

 

[fretmeister]

I was fortunate enough to see them live. Fantastic performance by all.

[Burns-bass]

6 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

I was fortunate enough to see them live. Fantastic performance by all.

I saw them at Ozzfest with Dimebag and it was proper brilliant. I was too scared and too slight to enter the mosh pit but was an excellent day.

[fretmeister]

That’s where I saw them too!

[Bevan7]

Yeah I saw them there too, back to back with Slayer, needed a lie down after that.

[Burns-bass]

7 minutes ago, Bevan7 said:

Yeah I saw them there too, back to back with Slayer, needed a lie down after that.

I remember that. Bad ass.

[MacDaddy]

Like their first four albums. Great stuff.

[SteveXFR]

14 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

Like their first four albums. Great stuff.

 

Their glam records? Metal Magic, Projects in the jungle, I am the night and Power metal? 

[Chiliwailer]

Domnington 1994 - Biohazard, then Pantera, then Sepultura - was nuts…

 

…and then bizarrely followed by Extreme 😂

 

Enjoyed the YT vid, cheers for posting. 

[80Hz]

This was so cool. Still love that era of metal, friends of Pantera in the the NOLA scene, Crowbar, CoC etc.

[SteveXFR]

42 minutes ago, 80Hz said:

This was so cool. Still love that era of metal, friends of Pantera in the the NOLA scene, Crowbar, CoC etc.

 

There was some really great metal coming from the south of the US at that time. Plus we also had Sepultura, Life of Agony and Fear Factory plus British bands like Therapy? and The Almighty and the whole grunge scene as well. It was a great time to be in to noisy music. 

It all ended when Limp Bizkit and Blink 182 came along. They were just terrible. 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Two things I learnt from that video - Rex doesn't like playing slowly or playing sitting down 😄 It's a shame it ends when it does, he's just starting to relax towards the end.

 

Rex was a MASSIVE influence on me as a teenager, for me he is probably the king (forgive the pun) of metal bass. To this day, when I'm working on heavier music, I'm frequently in a "WWRD?" frame of mind. That Floods bassline... absolute chef's kiss.

 

And also - The Great Southern Trendkill is the greatest metal album of the 90s.