Dime amp

 

Darrell Lance Abbott- we all knew him as Dimebag Darrell, one of the most talented guitarist in aggressive music. RIP...

Recently, his estate collaborated with Dean guitars to release the Dime series of amplifiers. The model you see above is a 120W head which promises Dimebag's crushing distortion as well as some excellent cleans. We are aware this is a posthumous release; would this be a fair representative of what Dimebag would have wanted? Would there be other products with the Dime tag? Is it disrespectful to have a dead man's name on products which would conjure the probability of disapproval by the individual himself should he be alive? We know how it is with the 'Hendrix' name, don't we?

Darrell Lance Abbott (August 20th 1966 - December 8th 2004)

It's been 4 years since the passing of Darrell Lance Abbott (that's Dimebag Darrell to the rest of us). He was one of those guitar chaps who was equally lethal in his riffs as well as his solos. I remember buying Pantera's Cowboys from Hell, paid $18 for an imported version of the cassette tape (which is now a fungus factory, gladly irrecoverable due to convenient misplacement- I currently own the CD version of it).

Mr. Dimebag arguably made good of the Dean brand name which remained largely unknown prior to his distinguished appearance. I was into his playing because he was not one to foresake technicalities in combination with the heavy music genre.

RIP

Dean: Dime Time

In a fitting tribute to the late Dimebag Darrell, Dean now offers the Dime Time humbucker (neck)...
...as proven on the flip side.