Rex Brown: " If Dimebag was still around Pantera would still be around"

Rex Brown is now working hard with his current band Kill Devil Hill, but people will always know him as the bass player of Pantera. In a fresh interview, Brown says that every band these days wants to be Pantera and he thinks the legendary heavy metal band would still be playing together if guitarist Dimebag Darrell was alive.
Brown tells Some facts, “Every band out there wants to be Pantera, I’ll just put it that way. I’m not patting myself on the back when I say that; it’s just a fact. They’re trying to get the riffs and they’ll never get it. They’ll never get it. It takes the four of us. Special.”
Brown continues, “I mean, you can’t just throw three of the original guys out of Slayer and then expect it to sound like Slayer, it’s just not going to work. Just one of them things, man. You run across that once in a lifetime and you just fight for it, and that’s what we really did with Pantera. But it was all about making the right song you know. It was all about that melody, that ‘catch’ that could suck people in.”
Brown says most of Pantera’s legendary riffs came out of collaborations between himself and Dimebag Darrell. “Me and Dime worked on a lot of those riffs together. “He’d have this little riff part and I could come in with a different little section at the end of it, that’s what made the riffs on the records. Any guitar player in a band is going to come up with the most of the stuff a lot of times. We were four very different individuals in Pantera, and it really took the four of us to make what I called the ‘magic in a box.’”
The bass player continues, “The whole plan was really just to take a break and then we all reconvene, but it just didn’t turn out that way. I’m sure if Dime was still around Pantera would still be around as a band. But as it turns out, he’s no longer with us, which really sucks. We got robbed by some f---in’ lunatic. It is what it is, and it’s a hell of a ride.”