KIRK WINDSTEIN Remembers DIMEBAG, Defends Philip H. Anselmo & Discusses Concert Safety!

[@slyrez]

I like these New Orleans guys a lot. there are so chill and friendly

[@creggkelbae9617]

reza even phil, tho he looks like hes gonna kill you

[@NotMyWar]

Got to be my favorite scene.

[@Homedog_]

Honest, simple and no sellout band in 30 years as it gets...I've meet KIrk a few times, very easy going dude.

[@Iamthenight84]

Dime brought me here! 🤘 Rest in power brother 💔💔

[@Gene-XL]

I love Kirk. He’s the type of guy who’d make a great “best friend.” Had the honor of meeting him a few years ago and he’s just so genuine.

[@Andf-kc4xx]

4:09 Kirks voice went normal for a second and not raspy. LMFAO

[@thecreatorofdoom6666]

Kinda sounded like Rick from pawn stars xD

[@michaelcostello466]

Kirk is a wonderful human being...

[@msbtrock]

GETCHA PULL

[@traceyrychewhite6374]

Dimebag will live in our hearts and through his awesome music. We love you Dimebag. R.I.P brother Dimebag. 💝🎶🎸🎵

[@shredmechanic]

I love Kirk Windstein's' down-to-earth attitude about it all.

[@trollfinger]

I remember having a great day on the day Dime got shot. Was prancing around after getting a sweet pay packet, and I went to a friend's store and he had this look on his face and told me what had happened, fucking heartbroken isn't the word. Life isn't perfect folks, this shit can come out of left field at any time. Get over grudges, never leave friends behind and all of that shit. There's a great line in a Tool song that goes "repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here."

[@sithspitdanikan4725]

Right in Two

[@IMTheOnE1984]

10 fuckin years! !!!! Seems like yesterday we lost a legend, my personal hero, and the best guitarist of our time. Still missed but not forgotten dime lives on in all of us that he touched with his music. Getcha pull.......

[@rockdog2843]

Kirk as the Hulk was the friggin BEST!! I wanna see more! Hope he does it again!

[@NateB1976]

My two favorite New Orleans bands by far are Eyehategod and Crowbar. It's got to be the oppressive heat or something that can create such sludgy music. Time Heals nothing by Crowbar and Take as needed for pain by Eyehategod got me thru some dark ass times and still get play regularly to this day. Do yourself a favor buy them both!

[@hollyjanik1247]

Yes! So much truth in this comment. Both bands also put on an excellent show as well. Seeing Crowbar November 9th!

[@NateB1976]

Holly Janik hell yeah! Where you seeing them at? What city? Because if they're coming close to here(knoxville TN) I want to see them.

[@hollyjanik1247]

+Nate Brenneman I live in Denver, actually. That's where I'm seeing them. Shit, I wish I lived in Tennessee though. I love the south.

[@NateB1976]

Holly Janik you wouldn't want to be here in the summertime when it's 99° and 100% humidity. Haha! They're prolly on an east coast tour now or after the dates they're doing out your way. I'm only about 3 hrs from Nashville where almost any bands go thru if they don't come thru Knoxville. If for some reason they skip TN we're only 3hrs from Atlanta GA too.

[@phantomshtter]

+Nate Brenneman I'm a big Doom/sludge/stoner fan but I will never get the appeal of Eyehategod. People praise them up and down but it is complete and total garble to me, nothing at all interesting or good. Crowbar is my rock though! NONE HEAVIER

[@vantablackwarship7199]

The Hulk...funniest thing ever.

[@TheKorfish]

That flip he did was epic

[@dpepper5150]

Threeeeeee

[@bigdbigooo7829]

"you play the music, you don't let the music play you". Like a 80's drug commercial

[@theeholygoalie]

Kirk always has cool guitars. Everything from SG's, Dean ML's, Explorers and now that really cool Ibanez Destroyer.

[@gavin6666]

He has an Ibanez Iceman as well, and some Dean guitars.

[@mattkeeton536]

Gone but never forgotten. We will never forger RIP DLA A VPA

[@LichaelMewis]

I saw Crowbar at one of their first gigs in Thibodaux Louisiana back in the early 90s. Was simply incredible.

[@filsolano5465]

If I were a guitarist, I would try to emulate Kirk ‘s sound as close as possible. It’s heavy, sludgy, chunky and has balls of steel.

[@GOJO-l5b]

Kirk is such a kick ass dude

[@luckylicks3497]

It's Alrosa 15 years to the minute as I'm watching this. Saw Crowbar opening for Pantera in 1994 in Helsinki.

[@tunlaw3076]

4:09 kirk accidentally turns off the metalzone that boosts his voice

[@markblue5375]

WRATH Midwest Metal 🤘 Long Live Dime 🤘

[@HelpAlongYourWay]

Awesome interview.

[@Billo1281]

@10:09 the screen flashes green! You know what Dime's favorite color was right? Dime Slime Green! Miss you Dime.

[@troythreatlevel1]

The show Kirk is talking about with the little snowflakes was at the American Theatre in St Louis Missouri I was at that show I had those little styrofoam snowflakes in my scalp, my shoes in my pockets, somehow that stuff even managed to get in my shorts I had on!

[@ZakkiLowe]

Kirk is my idol. And his shirt is awesome too. I have the same shirt. Armed for Apocalypse rules.

[@Chris-dz7fn]

At 3:14 he scratches his leg revealing what looks to me like a big ass Saxon tattoo above his knee. That is fucking righteous man!

[@97warlock]

I parked my XXL & JSX heads & went back to gigging with my 1998 Solid state Crate head. Simply less work & still get a great tone from it, and 20 years later its proved reliable & I can carry it almost with a pinky. 60 rms of Pure Power lol Sounds good,its all that matters

[@johnnycanosoda]

R.I.P Dime...you were stolen from us way too early....Much Love Brother \m/

[@PsychoMantis308]

Hell yeah. I plug straight into a Mesa Boogie Mark IV on the lead channel with a noise gate. No fancy effects loops or anything. Guess I'm old school like Kirk

[@stevenbrewer9306]

he's exactly right, you cant blame anyone but the shooter, who seen that coming? ya phil may have said some things and did his own thing but who in there wildest dream thought some nut would come out of knowwere and do what he did, dam.............

[@eladioredin2124]

Just the best

[@mattkeeton536]

Badsss best memory of Dime with me was he was at the tattoo bar in Ft. Worth an i was so yoing i set up atcthe bar an he pulled out a few shots of black tooth grin an it wasnt a Metal Show an my first shot ever was poured by Dimebag best memory i have of him. An that foosball table lol anbtje painting next to it

[@djmetallord]

KIRK WINDSTEIN a class act for sure \,,/

[@grandspringdale838]

God bless Kirk🤟

[@botramduuze7188]

John Lennon was also killed on Dec. 8 , my birtday.

[@PsychoMantis308]

My cousins birthday

[@benjaminsmith5295]

kirk has two voices lol gruff and normal.

[@johnnygraveness]

ben smith Fuck yeah haha

[@PsychoMantis308]

The grungy voice is his real voice. I met him at a show and he talks like that for real. Even to his wife

[@Bloodcount]

he should do voiceover work

[@jeremynelson5311]

Yep lol. I met him at a Crowbar show and he really sounds like that. He's also a very nice dude.

[@EyeShotFirst]

It's from how he's sung for decades. That's all damage. Old interviews he used to sound more like he talks in his higher ranges.

[@Harryjay6]

I'm still so fucking sad. I do love the quote at the end of the interview though.

[@matthewrogers8778]

Yes nvr forget ride came...told me the news huge snowstorm that morning brother took his life 8 days and 8yrs later....lives forever altered......and for the record he said wat he did ... we would forgive....if Phil took responsibility... But better to deny than to take the blame hell with Phil he EARNED IT

[@txmetalhead82xk]

I met Kirk once - he is a cool ass dude! It was at the DOWN show - such an unexpected meeting.

[@PsychoMantis308]

I met him last week in Providence RI. Crowbar played with Killswitch Engage and he was walking out of a bar with his wife. Called out his name and he stopped and walked over and talked like we knew eachother for years

[@nightingalelaurence6092]

It's so true what he says about those vintage bands. I love music from past (Peter Greens Fleedwood, Lizzy, Priest and million other bands), but i don't feel anything when i'm hearig their songs. Just no soul....

[@slantyrock]

4:08 that tone of voice change is fucking hilarious.

[@slantyrock]

He went from having a poo to having a finger shoved up his bum-bum.

[@alldaylong3052]

Julius Caesar

[@formaldehyde6535]

slantyrock his inner Kevin James came out lmao

[@slantyrock]

Kevin James is kind of a chode.

[@MrTomkat030]

Man he was not fucking shot 6 times... Vinnie did an interview about what happened... He even spoke to his brother before he died, they have a tattoo on the underside of the arm, they called it a reset button, if something was too bogus or fucked up they were to press it together to reset the situation Vinnie said he came to darrell's side and his brother said to vinnie reset bro and then he died... The online stories are mixing false information with here say, saying he was shot twice in the head then three in the chest and then again point blank third time in the head...... That would totally negate the reason for Bray coming on stage to assist in CPR... I remember this horrible day like yesterday, was offered to go to the show in Ohio with my bud, and drive from Weatherford Tx to the venue, but i declined because of work the next day....a gut feeling told me to not go, i usually listen to this feeling... I listened on the radio instead.... That was also a dreaded moment...hearing them Rip into the first song for only moments what it seemed like, before what sounded like just a couple firecrackers before the radio DJ dangerous darren going to a technical difficulty then silence.... Like no music, no advertisements or commercials, nothing nadda Cause they freaked the fuck out i am sure and didnt know what to do. My bud saw everything too, just to far away for him to do anything, shocked etc. that fuck gale walked right by him moments before him reaching the stage.... Anywho im not trying stir up a fuss just thought i let you know what my friend witnessed and what Vinnie Paul himself has said

[@manicmurph]

+MrTomkat030 where is that interview that Vinnie said he talked to Dime before he died about the reset button, cause I've never heard that. I heard Vinnie booked the hell out of the way and was nowhere near dime.

[@6wm]

+downfan1 I've never heard of that either. I actually watched an interview with Vinnie on KZbin only yesterday and he says the last thing Dime said was.. Van Halen. Just before they started the gig. It was apparently something that they used to say before a performance.

[@manicmurph]

6wm Yeah that's the same thing Vinnie has said in a few interviews that that was the last thing he said to him "van halen" which for them meant to rock the house and go nuts, or something like that. I know Vinnie did have a tattoo of a reset button but I never heard that story.

[@jakekerr3160]

Class act

[@lennydodson4223]

Armed for apocolypse reppin the nor cal band hell yea🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@aarondavis4341]

I'm old school,I plugg into the front of the head and rock out Can't get any better than that kids

[@jasonpelto1164]

cool stuff

[@dannyballenger3340]

Kirk is one of the coolest people on earth Who Dat

[@barryenglish8990]

Scratch the knee *SAXON TATTOO* (3.14) Bows to the master

[@NielsOleNorgaard1983]

3:14 Nice Saxon tattoo!

[@elevatedmind]

Hulk Blood.....

[@6wm]

+Kurt Steinmuller Classic Pantera / Crowbar home video escapades!

[@benishmael9451]

Fuckin' A

[@333BlkFlagg]

333 ❤️❤️❤️

[@botramduuze7188]

RIP Dime

[@daveyboy8907]

Alright he's back to beer drinking thank god..

[@xmrxablexmex]

Kirk windstein looks like one of the guys that goes to my church lol

[@barlotardy]

I assume you mean God.

[@xmrxablexmex]

Bradford Taylor Yeah

[@BrianTKessler]

With a name like that, he sounds more like he goes to the synagogue.

[@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062]

Brian Kessler Wut?

[@xmrxablexmex]

Brian Kessler Yeah lol Windstein.... The heretic of war A synagogue is like a place where jews meet and stuff

[@ThrashMetal669]

Kirk will ALWAYS be Hulk Blood

[@DreamWizard9]

RIP Dimebag Darrell

[@msbtrock]

great job once again. I wish I knew your name, sorry buddy!

[@anthonylafauce6773]

What crowbar song should i listen to first?

[@jeremynelson5311]

Planets Collide or High Rate Extinction

[@hardcoredemise]

He should do cartoons like squidbillies or adult swim

[@grigorycitizencook4047]

Kirk is DA SUPA SUPRA COOLA guy !

[@AlbertMarv11]

I didn’t know Kirk knew dimebag Darrell and used Randall amplifiers because of him! Everyone that went seperate routes in life found different projects. And now there’s news about the whole thing. What about what went through the mind of the guy who killed dimebag? Crowbar and down yeah okay. But the whole propuse or reason of how or why that all happen was massive the the time when I found out dime had died.

[@Charlzhen]

They toured together in the 90s... Kirk is the Hulk in the Vulgar Videos.. Phil produced at least one of Crowbars albums and also wore a Crowbar shirt in the I'm Broken music video...

[@pteeng1]

Aww, isn't it good that this video was given the blessings from 'Our Lady of Fatima'? How very 'Horns Up'.

[@brandonobaza8610]

"Have a Cold One with the Old One"

[@franksylvia1342]

kirk that's the wrong beer brah where's DA Coors light!!

[@manicmurph]

I bet the techs were pissed they had to clean all that Styrofoam up.

[@fferraris5150]

Kirk’s voice sounds like Beetlejuice 😂

[@the80sliveagain63]

😆

[@zackforister]

ST LOUIS!!!!!!!

[@cert4]

HULK BLOOD!!!!

[@jakobwheelhand9907]

Crowbar is life....

[@acx207]

This dude looks like Billy Joel with a bald head and beard

[@RockyH.]

FUCK......damn it I didn't want to fucking cry but, I did! My dad in 1981 was randomly shot 5 times in situation that he had nothing to do with luckily for me and my late mother my dad survived but, I swear to all of you it changed my dad so gun violence is something I have had to live with. Now my favorite musicians are dying to unnecessary gun violence it is un-fucking-real! Vinnie passed away around a year ago and I know deep down inside he died of a broken heart because of the loss of his brother....I truly hate it for Dime, Vince, and their family I sorta know how it hurts and it just don't make sense. The only person/persons responsible for gun violence are the idiot cocksuckers who pull the trigger period! I love the Abbott brothers and their music and I miss them for that matter I will forever always miss who my dad was before he was shot.....long live family, rock n' roll, and most of all people who have goddamn sense about themselves ya know! Take care of yourselves please and bless you keep jamming!!!

[@yvesbriand707]

Why did people point the finger at phil for what has happened???

[@rottingcorpse6002]

If your friends are always having to defend you for your actions, maybe you are the problem.

[@defiled669]

is that kevin james

[@mattkeeton536]

Kirk your the shit.

[@myname3074]

We're gonna go !!!!!!! Hulk rules

[@Hallowedpoint85]

while Kirk is right, it was Nathan Gale who killed dime not Phil. i cant help but think of when i saw Superjoint ritual at jaxx in springfield in 02 or 03 and inbetween songs some dude in the front said something about pantera to Phil and phil went on a rant about how dime and vinny were only in for the money and they were assholes. I'm here because i love to play music for you all. and after the show i went up to phil and said hey if dime and vinny are only in it for the money why are they sitting at home and you're here making money with superjoint? and he didnt say anything back he mumbled under his breath and walked away from me. So from that moment on i had lost respect for phil. all these younger kids who only knew dime and pantera after the fact will defend Phil, but Phil could have gotten his back fixed sooner and got off the dope but he chose not to because he wanted to run 3 and 4 projects at once. Pjil broke up pantera by himself. while i've gotten over phils arrogance over the years i still say if Phil had of gotten his act together that crazy asshole would never have shot dime because pantera could have gotten back together.

[@karltodenhoft8963]

basplya04 yo i was in middle school when I went to that show. jaxx used to have a lot of good acts come thru

[@Hallowedpoint85]

yea i loved that venue. I got to meet a lot of badass bands there over the years. sucks it closed this year.

[@Hallowedpoint85]

HoosierMF and if you read any interview at all you will hear dime and vinie both say Phil kept going out doing his own projects and didnt even record far beyond driven i think it was in the studio the whole band rex vinnie and dime recorded all of it and had to send it to phil in LA because phil wouldnt come to the studio...thats being arrogant. Phil knew he had back problems and needed surgery and kept drinking it away causing him to be that arrogant douchbag he once was. yes i understand they are human people get sick of each other but you gotta go take care of yourself and get better to keep the machine going. he did none of those things he kept doing these side projects to stay on the road and tour that is being arrogant. vinnie and dime were sitting at home waiting on phil to get his act together and never did so they made damageplan. Vinnie was never the arrogant one he was the nicest guy in the world when i met him around the same time i've met phil a few times over the years and everytime was a bad experience except the last time and that was after dimes death so maybe you had a different experience with them personally but i got the asshole phil and that has stuck in my mind for years and i remain solid on my point of if Phil had of done what he was suppose to do and got better i still feel like they would have gotten back together eventually. and maybe vinnie was and remains to be closed off cause he lost a brother and all the rumors swirled back to phil and i'm sure if you lost a brother or sister to murder because someone close to you talked enough shit to make a crazy asshole kill your family member you would hold a grudge against that person to.

[@Oi325]

@@Hallowedpoint85 Phil mentioned that after is overdose, he fell into depression and isolated himself for the fear that his band would judge him, it was his mistake that he made to not get that surgery and unfortunately the drug use to manage that pain caused it. What killed pantera was a combination of everyone. Can't place blame on only one person. Also what jump started the break up was the 9/11 attacks that killed their tour leading to the break up.

[@frankcastle4715]

Diamond was taken too soon

[@matthewrogers8778]

SADD we all have to do this....but IT NLY CUZ NOBODY ELSE WILL FUCK THE INDUSTRY DIMETIME NVR ENDS

[@chrismontgomery8278]

Wrath is not Midwest metal. It’s Salinas straight edge hardcore. But it’s cool.

[@ahdbw8494]

Hulk Blood!

[@aretnap3653]

FoxNewsChannel Woke Me Up at like 7AM, TheMorning after TheNight Dime Died.

[@brandonharris9160]

0:28 R.I.P Alexi Laiho

[@ayoubwise6678]

count how many time he say YOU KNOW hahah \m/

[@gavocrazy]

Why didnt he mention down?

[@johnstoner666]

+gavocrazy He left the band...

[@brogoram]

He use metal zone? Interesting....

[@kendrickjahn1261]

I'd like to know what Kirk has to say about Phil's racist bullshit.

[@sAiNtFiTz78]

+Kendrick Jahn He supports Philip..... the microscope on Phil is what's "bullshit!" Don't be so simple minded bro.

[@LaserGadgets]

+Chris Fitzgerald It was bullshit. Sometimes his brain is alot slower than his mouth. AND it was TOTALLY the wrong evening for that. Love that dude, but you dont have to like everything he does, like a fucking lil girl...

[@demerjr8097]

+LaserGadgets or like a fucking lil kkk

[@Celio19891]

+Chris Fitzgerald Agreed. Yes he had a brain fart and decided to make an off color joke at an inappropriate time and place in front of the wrong people. It was indeed stupid of him but that being said people are blowing that shit way out of proportion. Too much over sensitivity in the world.

[@ulisesr.benavides9323]

UFCMania155 Of course, look just at his eyes.

[@michaelojeda6551]

Of course he defends Phil

[@PsychoMantis308]

Ive met both Phil and Vinny and I'll tell you what... Phil stopped and had a beer and talked with me while Vinny couldnt be bothered

[@jamesgundogdu3616]

croak, croak, croak...

[@Red-40]

666th like

[@JamesJohnson-ue1gd]

I don't know if the rest of the Metal community realizes that Kirk is the guy that introduced Phil Anselmo to heroin, and the rest went to shit!

[@MrClubpenguin11]

Where can we confirm this?

[@chrismontgomery8278]

It’s Phil’s fault. He knew that Pantera had a crazy cult following and said, “Vince and Dime deserve to be hurt very badly” 10 days before he was shot in an interview. One of many things Phil said.

[@jessiejames7914]

That's a shit thing to say. How is it Phil's fault that some schizophrenic fuck went off and killed Dime? No one's fault but the gun man.

[@anthonybernero9720]

@@jessiejames7914 he's saying that Phil personally influenced the twisted bastard.

[@Farkmetal]

This guy doesn’t do interviews anymore but he’s always acted like a cringy foreign metal dude. “You just play your music you don’t let the music play you” ugh lol

[@matthewrogers8778]

And another tribute ruined by talking about scambag Phil and traitor rex