Dimebag Darrel Has Been Inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk
May 19th, 2007
On May 17th, 2007 Pantera and Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell was inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk. A bronze bust of the legendary metal guitarist was unveiled and installed in the RockWalk. Many performers came out to the event including members of Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Kiss, Rob Zombie, and Slayer.
Zakk Wylde spoke about Dimebag and played the song In This River which he dedicated to Dime on BLS’ most recent album Shot to Hell. There are several videos on YouTube of the ceremony, but most of them are poor quality. You can check them out anyway if you like though.
On the night of the induction the 50 guitars from the Six-String Masterpieces Dimebag Darrel Art Tribute were auctioned off at California’s House of Blues. Many musical figures participated in the original art exhibition over a year ago. The musicians each painted a Dean ML guitar in their own style. Some of the artists who took part include James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, Joe Satriani, Billy Gibbons, Marilyn Manson, Tom Morello, and Kelly Clarkson. In fact, the guitar decorated by Kelly Clarkson brought in a surprising $3000, beating out both Dave Navarro and Rob Zombie. Earlier in the week I reported that some people were expecting a guitar painted by popular modern artist Mark Ryden would sell for over a million dollars. The guitar only ended up going for $34,000 which is nothing to scoff at, but very short of 1-mil. The money raised was donated to The Little Kids Rock Project who make free musical instruments available to public school students.
Visit Tomorrow’s Productions to see a whole bunch of pictures from the event. Then there are some more pictures over at ZRock.com.
[Via Blabbermouth, Modern Guitars Magaizine]
tagged dimebag, RockWalk, six string masterpieces and Zakk Wylde
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