Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell Abbott tells how he got banned from being in guitar competitions in Texas when he was 14 years old. He won
so many times that Dallas radio station Q102, which hosted the event, asked him to stop entering and let someone else win. Dimebag won a red Dean ML guitar the first time he won. He would later become a judge for the guitar competition. This snippet is from an unreleased interview with Dimebag from 1992 that will be released soon in its entirety at http://thetapesarchive.com. (30 min)