I see what you're saying....I think musically though, RTS was awesome...Phil just was a little scatterbrained on the lyrics it seemed. So I could definately see a half assed effort on the albums remaining on their contract.slaughtered wrote:here, you know what, even if phil had stuck around to record those 2 records with pantera, i reckon it only would have been a half effort and they wouldn't have been anything great! I'd rather they left it at the amazing records they did, than finish their career with 2 shit ones. They'd clearly gone different ways by then music wise.
And as for crushing the dream....I think he was meaning that Nathan Gale crushed the dream of there ever being a PanterA reunion. With all 4 members still alive, it could have been a possibility at some point! As Phil said...look how long it took for the original Black Sabbath to play together again.
COULD'VE
SHOULD'VE
WOULD'VE
DIDN'T.
We could talk about this topic forever and it wont change the fact that Pantera will never make music again. I don't neccessarily want to scapegoat Phil too badly. I just think his "drug abuse" and him persuing (in my opinion) the biggest, overhyped, metal band of the year Superjoint Ritual, had alot to do with the demise of the band...which subsequently led to some psychopath shooting Darrell on stage.