It's Official: PANTERA's Surviving Members To Embark On Reunion Tour In 2023!
Well, we didn’t see this coming at all but it is for sure official…for now, the surviving members of PANTERA will be going on a reunion tour in 2023!
According to Billboard, PANTERA's surviving members will embark on a reunion tour in 2023. Singer Philip Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown have signed with Artist Group International to book their North American dates. Dennis Arfa and Peter Pappalardo will be the responsible agents.
"We are thrilled to be working with such an iconic band and bringing their music back to the fans," said Pappalardo.
A year ago, Anselmo said that he was up for reuniting with Brown for a special tour celebrating the music of PANTERA.
The 54-year-old singer, who has spent the past few years playing a PANTERA-centric set with his solo band, THE ILLEGALS, discussed the possibility of re-teaming with his former PANTERA bandmate during an interview with Brazil's Inside With Paulo Baron.
Asked if he and Rex would be open to playing some shows in celebration of PANTERA's legacy, Anselmo said: "I think Rex sees what I'm doing with the ILLEGALS and he likes it. He's just, like, 'That's great,' because the more I keep PANTERA alive, it's good for him too.”
"I think Rex is very happy doing his solo records and stuff, and I think he's been in the studio; he's got his own thing going on," he continued. "And I think right now in life, we are content to do things this way.”
"If Rex and I had a show to play, or we were ever gonna be on stage again together, I would welcome it with open arms. I love Rex. And he'd be the same way. We're brothers forever. So playing on stage together, or doing some shows together, is not out of the question. It could happen."
Rumors swirled for quiet sometime that guitarist Zakk Wylde would be the man to handle guitar duties and even Dimebag Darrell Abbott’s long time girlfriend was on board for Zakk doing it.
"If we got together and we ended up doing it, it would be like… I just look at it like if Eric Clapton went out and was with Mitch [Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix's drummer] and Noel [Redding, Hendrix's bass player] and singing and playing Jimi's songs, and he's honoring Jimi, 'cause that was his buddy.
"No one's replacing anybody. No one's replacing Randy Rhoads — he was a one-off. Just like no one's replacing Jimi Hendrix and no one's replacing Dime [late PANTERA guitarist 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott] — or Vinnie.”
Vinnie Paul and Dimebag co-founded PANTERA. When PANTERA broke up in 2003, they formed DAMAGEPLAN. On December 8, 2004, while performing with DAMAGEPLAN at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, Dimebag was shot and killed onstage by a troubled schizophrenic who believed that the members of PANTERA were stealing his thoughts.
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