The autobiography of the bassist of Pantera, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time
Few heavy metal acts survived the turmoil of the early 1990s music scene. Pantera, featuring the peerless guitar playing of the late Dimebag Darrell Abbott, was different. Instead of humoring the market, the band demanded that the audience come to them by releasing a series of fiercely uncompromising platinum albums, includingVulgar Display of PowerandFar Beyond Driven-albums that sold millions of copies despite minimal airplay.
This is the previously untold story behind one of the most influential bands in heavy metal history, written by the man best qualified to tell the truth about those incredible and often difficult years of fame, excess, and tragedy.
Rex Brownwas born in 1964 in Graham, Texas. He joined Pantera in 1982 and has also played with Down. His new band, Kill Devil Hill, is climbing the charts.
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Mark Eglintonis the author ofJames Hetfield: The Wolf At Metallica's Door. He divides his time between Scotland and the Pacific Northwest.
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A warts and all look at Brown's journey from small town Texas music geek to platinum-selling, arena-filling rock star. Besides the insightful, and always colorful, Pantera stories included throughout
Official Truth, Brown also comes clean about his own personal battles with drugs and alcohol. Not to mention his marital issues.
AOL Music's Noisecreep.com Rex is completely honest and forthcoming in this book, and it's a major insight to one of the most influential bands of all time...A must read!
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Rex's story is both honest and brutally real...Rock stars are often put on a pedestal and made to seem larger than life. Rex Brown gives us the other side of the story. His heartfelt account tells us the good, the bad, and lÓ+
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