Darrell Lance Abbott, known as "Dimebag", was and still is for many as well as my own greatest guitar influence.  Dime's contribution to the works of nineties Pantera and early 2000s Damageplan metal explosions was only the award-winning and hugely influential music aspect of him.  Dimebag's fans  span ages and cultures, and  were a huge part of Dime 's fun on earth.  I've actually heard over two dozen anecdotes of different fans hanging out with the Abbott brothers (Pantera and Damageplan's drummer) on tour, in their Dallas-owned club, and even their Arlington home. The shocking paradox however remains in countless souls/minds, that on December 8, 2004, Dime was shot at least 5 times and killed while performing onstage at a Ohio show ...

I  went to Moore Memorial Cemetery in Arlington in February and had the opportunity to exearth Dimebag in a sense.  It was my first time to a graveyard in years, and amidst the vast array of many more buried, now lays Dime next to his mother. The soundscape that early morning was confusingly beautiful. The wind splashed and rippled the lakewater, strong enough to cause imbalance for me and my microphone, and the hundreds of tree-hung wind chimes seemed to be aggressively and polyrhythmically harmonizing.  My idea was to record the natural sound ambience of that particular gravesite scene as is, and to verablize the tombstone's epitaph.  After various takes, I jammed my acoustic guitar for a bit, then took off to Houston.   Via audio production software on my PC (Audacity), I selected a favorite unlooped audio segment of the captured footage and basically proceeded by speeding up the tempo, leaving the pitch the exact same, and worked out minor equalizing and mixing issues.  I tried to 'keep myself' somehow in the Dimexearth experience, so my own unique voice remains in the final product, but the intelligibility of everything turned out confusingly beautiful.