Shadowing Practice: Rex Brown on 25th Anniversary of Pantera's 'Vulgar Display of Power' - Loudwire Legacy - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hey, it's Rex Brown and this February is the 25th anniversary of Vulgar Display of Power.
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They wanted me to talk a little bit about some of my favorite memories of that record.
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That record happened so naturally and so just happened so quickly everything came together.
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One of my favorite memories was we had hit kind of a roadblock in the writing sessions.
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And I remember Don and Phil went outside and smoked a joint.
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and I think Phillip had the riff for a new level, or had an idea and wanted to get it to die, but he had to get on that same wavelength.
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And when they came back, they had this thing, and I remember that, I mean, it didn't take us long at all to put that thing together.
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And then it just, that chunk of that groove, I think that set the whole tone for the whole record.
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I mean, that was really, we had done some stuff, I think, before that track,
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but 25 years have been quite a while, but I just remember the feeling of,
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that was really when the Brotherhood just really came into this dynamic like no other.
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It was, as a musician,
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it's one of those records you just pinch yourself.
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It just happens so naturally.
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And we knew how to play it.
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We played after each other so well that we knew exactly where the breaks were going to be.
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When we listened back to that, we were just a bunch of little kids at Christmas time.
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But that was a track that definitely started everything for that record.
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And that is one of my favorite, or if not my favorite, Pantera record.

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