During a recent chat on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, guitarist Zakk Wylde talked about the Pantera reunion.
He said:
“It’s gonna be awesome. The fellows have always… When Vinnie was still with us, it was always rolling around that, ‘Zakk, would you honor Dime and all of us get together and do this thing?’
”And I said, ‘Fellows, whenever you wanna do this thing, I’ll be over here waiting in the dugout and in the bullpen. And just call me when you need me and I’ll learn everything and we’ll go do this.'”
How Wylde will approach Dimebag’s guitar parts, the guitarist replied:
“You approach it the same way as you do when I’m playing with Ozzy. Obviously, I’ve gotta learn [Randy] Rhoads’s stuff and I’ve gotta learn Jake’s [E. Lee] stuff, and when I was doing the [Black] Sabbath stuff, you learn it and do it as faithful as you can.
”Charlie’s gotta learn all of Vinnie’s parts. You approach it as if you’re in a cover band. When we do the Zakk Sabbath stuff. I don’t start changing lyrics midway through ”War Pigs”. You learn the songs, so that’s what you do.”
Charlie Benante also commented on the reunion, saying:
“I can’t go do this as the drummer from Anthrax because it would be a different sound completely. So the way I’m gonna do that is if you close your eyes, it’s gonna sound like it’s Vinnie, basically. And that’s how it’s gonna be… The sound is gonna sound exactly like him.”