4 guys , no dj , no playback , no special effects , just 4 guys on stage nailling every song from start to finish flawless , hard , heavy , agressive , fast. Pantera is definetly a landmark in Metal history.
Well, if you are saying they are a landmark because of how they performed live, it is an overstatement. There are a lot of good bands who kill it, live. Also, to the other guy who says metal musicians are the best musicians: I’m a thrash metal musician, since the late ‘80s. There are other genres that produce better MUSICIANS than a lot of metal musicians, but they may lack in certain areas. For example, someone I’ve known since our teens studied flute from age six. She was GIVING LESSONS by age 13-14 and playing in the Junior Philharmonic. She went on to become a double major in theater and opera. If you give her any sheet music in her vocal range or a piece to play on the flute she will NAIL IT. She is a recording artist, but cannot write her own music and if she tries to sing things out if her genre she lacks the feeling of the genres. What makes metal musicians good, in my opinion, is the attitude in the playing. It’s all about feel rather than technical abilities. Sure there is feel in Jazz and other genres, but that driving aggression isn’t there. Metal taps into the anger that people feel, which is powerful. Some Jazz musicians are great, but the vibe is totally different, mellow. But, if you’re slamming heroin you’re going to probably write mellow music. 😂
@@ThrashRebel Yeah it's a completely different skillset. I think the genres you are gonna find the most talented musicians in are classical, jazz and metal, but if you ask a very good classical guitarist to play a Slayer song or whatever he probably will fail terribly. And vice versa too ofcourse.
@@jamesblair2000 This is very untrue tbh. Like, 90% of metal is incredibly basic in a musical (and often technical) sense. That being said, I'd rather listen to Pantera than Zappa lmao
This was the Cowboys in LA show and Pantera had just finished the Slave to the Grind Tour earlier in the month if I recall. I went to that show in Houston in mid March of 92, but my brother had the pleasure of seeing Skid Row with Soundgarden and Pantera in Denver the month before! 1992 might of been the best year of the 90's for concerts....I saw GnR w/ Metallica , Nirvana w/ Smashing Pumpkins, and Lollapalooza with Red Hots, Soungarden, Ministry, and Pearl Jam headlined. I was 20 years old and not a care in the world except for heavy music and beautiful girls. God bless you for sharing this show!!
@@edwinromero9519 Wrong. Phil wrote the lyrics, Rex arranged the compositions, and if not for Phil's more hardcore and extreme influences, Dime and Vinnie would still have been stuck in 80's party metal mode and would have never achieved what they did in the 90's, and probably been written off by press and listeners at-large as also-ran's and hackneyed has-been's in the face of grunge/alternative and death metal. Phil's impact was there from word "go" in 1987 when he first joined, 3 years before virtually anyone outside the Texas/Louisiana circuit even knew who they were. When the 4 of them were riding around in Vinnie's (IIRC) car, Phil was riding shotgun and thus was the DJ. He knew every extreme and/or underground band there was to know back then. Bolt Thrower when they first dropped their debut "In Battle There Is No Law!!" in 1988, for example. Death when "Scream Bloody Gore" released in 1987, for another. Back to Rex, the man is absolutely brilliant in his own right and fully schooled in music theory (and the only member of the band who can claim this). Rex was also the quiet voice of reason and the one who broke up the most fights and unnecessary riff-raff. Every band needs that. Metallica had Cliff, but... yeah, that horrible tragedy in late September of 1986 happened and Lars never got fired like they were planning to do shortly after the Puppets tour was over.
Have you ever seen a crowd like this? Girls/kids crowd surfing/moshing. Dime is my biggest hero and inspired me to learn how to shred, my 1st guitar was a made in Japan 1991 ibanez s540 w/an edge lo-pro tremolo/ for $1200, turns out I picked a good one, still play it too. I guess it was my 2nd once I proved I wouldn't quit to my mom. I never got to see him live but I feel like I know him from vids. I remember where I was when I heard he died, miss him. Learning how to play like Dime was prolly the most challenging thing I've ever done, gotta have the attitude but I can't do it longer than 2 or 3 songs w/o locking up, idk how he played like that w/the stamina he had, especially being drunk every time, dude was a beast. Dime, EVH, and SRV are my goats. Dime stands out cuz he was such a great person/human being. Miss you Dime!
Bro, That was us kids down there. As I'm watching them flailing around. Stage diving. I was like damn, like it was yesterday. Huge, huge pits. I climbed on that stage few times...
Recently I’ve discovered that he used a rack chorus type doubler live so you are hearing a two guitar effect in the live footage. I imagine that he had his “dry” signal on one side of the stage and the modulated and delayed signal on Rex’s side of the stage. You can hear it clearly in the Heresy solo. Many heavy single guitar bands use something similar to get a wider stereo guitar sound. Mick Mars, EVH during the 90s and Zakk ever since he hit the scene has used rack doublers and detuners to fatten up the guitar sound live. So in fact you are hearing two guitar signals here. TC electronics makes a cool pedal for us mere mortals to achieve a similar effect in our homes and smaller shows. It’s called a Mimiq .
@@chipchiperson679 he used the whammy pedal for special effects and strange sounds like the main riff of Becoming The whammy was supposed to be a digital tremolo or vibrato and didn’t really sound like dumping the bar or pulling up either as it was intended. No body wanted a whammy pedal until Dime started using it unconventionally from what it was designed for. His double tracked live sound came from a rack chorus. No affordable detune pedal that sounded good was available in the 90s that I recall, EVH’s was the result of a wet, dry, wet set up with a rack detuned a few cents panned out, the reason he sounded different is because it wasn’t a chorus and the delayed detuned signal didn’t modulate . Dime is using a rack chorus here I’m pretty sure similar to what Zakk did maybe not the same brand but a rack chorus and that’s what makes his live sound so huge.
@@brandonjackson5865 the harmony during the solo of heresy comes from the whammy pedal. You can't do that with a doubler or chorus. Learn your gear and guitar before you try schooling people.
Whoever did it really brought Rex to the front of the mix. "This Love" sounded like pure evil. I never appreciated how he glued everyone elses parts together into a sound that no band since has been able to copy. Betzefer comes close, but the best any band can hope for is just to be in Pantera's shadow.
@@AKnatta The absolute metal snob in me, as condescendingly as possible would put it; "Even existing solely on RU-vid in 2022 they're still in the top 5 best performances of all time" and in no way is that depressing. Cheers to these fucking legends 🍻
And no one notes the great Cameraman work, 1 hour straight recording brutality, with what it seems a fck'n VHS camera from early 90's that has better sound quality than most of the newest Smartphones out there. Props to that cameraman.
Anytime I shoot a quick snippet of a song, even at this exact venue, the sound quality is so ridiculous it sounds like a drowning donkey on my retarded Google pixel smartphone deluxe blah blah blah. But I think the audio here is dubbed from the soundboard recording. Which begs the question of how many times they did this? I could go for a live album of every tour they did on vinyl.
Wasn't Pantera opening for Skid Row when they were touring Vulgar Display of Power? If this isn't a headlining performance, I couldn't imagine trying to follow this performance.
@@rickyhyppa7960 I saw them with Skid Row on this tour, it was every bit as incredible and the same set the best I can recall. Skids kicked ass and slave to the grind album is masterful. But the opening act was writing history. Long live Dime, Vinnie and the Toledo Sports Arena.
I can’t remember the last time I watched a concert RU-vid video from start to finish. Pantera in their prime captured on a hand held camera in 1992 got me.
I hear you brother. Saw them with Prong and Sepultura who were touring the Chaos AD album. Pantera had just released FBD. The volume and power was DNA altering. Crazy to think Dime could play that way when he drank so hard.
Seen them once on this tour opening for skid row, shit changed my life. Saw them twice on the far beyond driven tour. There aren't words to describe the energy. Truly unmatched.
Dime was so perfect live. I don't know about the drunk part, pretty sure he did after, or maybe he played better being drunk. I don't know, of the 7 times I saw him, he played like no other. Perfection. Never looked like he was. He just moved me and inspired me. I will always love what I saw.
I went to the same show when they came to town. 4500 seat venue. It should have been skid row opening for Pantera. They ended their set with Whiplash. Phil played guitar and Dime sang. They both walked up and down the aisle during that song and didn't miss a beat. LEGENDARY!
@@rickyhyppa7960 That is exactly what happened. Everyone was screaming for Pantera thru Skid Row's entire set. Sebastian Bach was cool about it saying "I'm glad you're happy we brought Pantera out on the road with us and that you liked their set." Good times
I turned 18 in the summer of '92 and was blown away by 'Vulgar Display ', even after years of listening to metal. The nostalgia is strong here, but also the raw strength of more pure, pre-internet time gone by. I just turned 48, and this music still pumps me up.
Fuck Phil sounds great. Can you imagine getting drunk as fuck with your bestfriends and having THIS to play to every night? They're having a fucking blast.
The whole band slung the tightness. Vinne played just a fraction on the back of the beat. Thus, even their fast riffs never feel pushed. This is the same thing with Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Tool as they all create a pocket. Especially with Pantera. The brothers played groove metal. Vulgar Display of Power album is all funk with a distortion petal. At the time, it was great to hear as 80s bands often played too straight.
@@Swonder1972 at some points you can here some shifts In speed on purpose between the brothers. They used to play together so many years before pantera, that’s why they sounds like that. No chance in hell to get that tightness and yet swing and slight time shifts without having them both together IMO.
@@RoyPerez-drumnote Oh yes...Live arrangements are often the best part of a band for the fan. The new material added in or varied song structure just adds icing to the already delicious cake. I noticed as well, the changed out chorus on cemetery gates, but that is understandable as the vocal track is a studio take and is insanely high. Not something doable every night on a tour.. This is a FOH sound board mixer recording. The locked off video is great too since you can see the band playing in the same shot. This was a super wonderful time for heavy rock. I miss this world.
This is so needed. Its a shame such a powerful force as they were..... for it to gradually crumble & fall. it Fkn sucks. To me, these guys will remain....just like this. TY for uploading this,. one of the best Pantera vids Ive seen imo.
Agreed!! I just told a friend today to watch this, because THIS Pantera is the one that ruled the f***ing universe, not the band we saw on the last tour...THIS is Pantera!!! The energy between Rex and Darrell was incredible, and to see Phil SKA dancing!! WTF, man I miss those days!!!
The boys at their best! Man , sometimes I forget how good Pantera was ! My opinion they saved Metal and help get rid of a lot of junk music being force fed to us in the 90’s
Siempre me derrito en elogios hacia esta banda , si soy un seguidor más , del metal , es gracias a Pantera , y si soy un poco más feliz en esta vida es gracias a ellos . Pantera , te llevo en mi corazón .
This show was awesome. They were in their prime and they sound amazing! I really appreciate you posting this. I've been a diehard Pantera fan since I first heard Cowboys From Hell in 91. I'm 55, Pantera is still my favorite band. This concert makes me want to jump into the moshpit. R.I.P Brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott ♥. RE-SPECT 👊 Getcha Pull!!
@Troll, dude you took the words I was just about to write. I have seen a metric shit ton of bands, including Pantera 3 times.... I can't even form sentences to accurately describe the feeling of being at their shows. What they did and continue to do for metal is immeasurable. This video needs to be put on the next interstellar probe. Somewhere, 40 billion light years away, whoever sees it will know this place is worth visiting. Long live Tampora!!!!!
Amazing, it looks like wi finally got the time machine and get back in '92! The sound is perfect, i didn't have the chance to see them live and alive 😢Big Thanks
Thank you so much for posting. This was only a 30 minutes drive from my house where I lived at the time and never knew about this show. This would have been so great to go to. Thank God for the person who filmed it. Pantera was absolutely magical.
Wow, great sound quality and props for keeping the camera so still. So incredible to see this era of the band, in the peak of their prime, firing on all 12 cylinders. They really were something special. Would love for this to get an official release on vinyl, I really like this set list more then the 101 Proof set list for a live album.
I saw them then!! The greatest of all time!!! And this video is amazing!! Simply the best video and audio of this time of the band. Huge thanks to whoever recorded and posted!! What an amazing show!!
Never have I heard a soundboard recording that sounds THIS close to the studio versions...the guitar and drum tones especially are identical. Started the video at Mouth For War and had to do a double take. Just unreal
Thanks for this upload, watching these guys again in their prime, with sound straight off the sound board is killer, Not many bands sound BETTER than their albums live
That little interlude between hollow and F Hostile is spine tingling. Absolutely brilliant little thing to play in between songs. Gave me goosebumps. Loved that darkness about Dimes playin, it’s fantastic.
Best band ever..I watched them twice live, the first back in 1992 along with Gun,Megadeth and Iron Maiden and later in 1998 sharing the stage with Stuck Mojo...they were simply out of this world, so much energy and power...thanks OP for sharing this video, brings vback memories and the sound is really good
