It's nice to see that at least back then, people really did win these contests. So many of them were bs just to get your info to spam your mailbox. I'm glad this was legit, and you have this awesome story to tell the rest of your life. Congrats!
This is such a cool story, even though I;d watched it before, still gives me joy listening to it! Thank You for sharing it, hope You're still having that guitar! \m/
Dude, this video is awesome. For one you still have the guitar, 2. you are a real guitar player and fan, and C. just guessing but the guitar may be top of the line for dime style. Pretty cool pretty cool.
i remember that contest and had every korn magazine and Dean Guitars just returned and was hunting for artist so i purchased a avalanche 7 string and sent them a a song from my band and pics of me with guitar never got answer but i still a a avalanche 7 in my arsenal its my favorite guitar
This shit made my day...I don't know why.....well I mean...I guess it's obvious why even though it doesn't "feel" like it is. Basically.....Dime was a great dude.....every fudgeking piece of footage you can find of him when he's only turned up to 10/10 instead of 37/10......he is nothing less than a genuine "dude".....always right on the verge of laughing or making a humourous statement, or summoning his alter ego "Getcha'self a pull Paul"....just go watch all the footage of him slumming it....standing around an armpit guitar store playing, talking, and sincerely trying to hang with the plebs. I like to think that if he were here today, he'd have shown us all over these lost years without him just how cool he really was. Shit was still so crazy and "top of the world" back when he passed that we never got to watch him settle down and do what the fuck ever he would have wanted to do with his time. When people ask that stupid fudgeking question "If you could have dinner with any three people that ever lived..who would they be?" My answer is: 1.Dime 2.Nikola Tesla 3. Mark Twain(optional sub in: Hunter S. Thompson)
Awesome story. So Jealous. I had a chance to buy that EXACT model, black n everything, about 6 yrs ago. Dude wanted like $450 for it, but hold on...reason I decided against it, was he had broken the headstock in half. I still wish I had gotten it from him, even with it broke and repaired. It was something I had to trust him on as far as it played fine etc cuz He had to ship it. It was just too much of a risk, if i could have tried it out in person and it was ok, I would have prob got it. it did have slight other damage to it too, but these are so rare, Id kill to have a fucked up one,lol. If he woulda done like $300,maybe $350 I prob woulda got it. The damage looked kinda severe, like it was a bad crack, so I just passed. My only other sorta relatable story is when I was like 12 yrs old, I used to collect baseball, sports cards. And I had gotten a SUPER SUPER RARE Autographed by like Mickey Mantle Upper Deck card in like 1990 in a pack of cards as a promo/ contest.. You could obviously keep the card, or they had this contest sorta thing where they said on the package if you sent the card in, they would send you the entire yrs like 500 card set with the Mantle sent back with it. Issue was you had to send a baseball card in the mail to some address to a Corpo office and just HOPE with no talking on the phone or anything, that you'd actually get the set back and the autographed Mantle back. The set was worth a few hundred I think which was alot back then for a 12 yr old, and I got the card back to. So I risked it and sent it in and MADE SURE I put the right address etc. I NEVER got the shit returned ,meaning I lost the card and set and never was able to get it resolved. I was PISSED. That Mantle alone is worth a fortune, or atleast it was when i checked like 10-15 yrs ago, cuz he only signed like 3 cards, and kids in 1990 were buying baseball cards by the wheel barrel, so out of millions of cards, 3 were signed so they were worth a ton immediately. like 5x what the whole set was worth at the time, so I shoulda just held onto it. Was an article a yr later about that contest stating only 1 of the 3 were ever known to be found, or the other 2 that were werent reported to the Baseball Beckett mag that helped with the contest. Was complicated,lol. So the other 2 MIGHT still be inside unopened packs somewhere, as alot of older collectors at the time were buying cases of the cards and keeping em sealed and put em away. So that card would be worth a fortune now. I woulda sold it for beer $$ anyways a couple yrs later when I retired from racing motocross and baseball, and became a musician,lol.
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It's nice to see that at least back then, people really did win these contests. So many of them were bs just to get your info to spam your mailbox. I'm glad this was legit, and you have this awesome story to tell the rest of your life. Congrats!
Man, this is an awesome story. I love the Culprit, probably one of my favorite shapes ever since I first saw it.
what a cool story, and a sick guitar!! ya totally earned it.
What an incredible story! Literally blown away for you and it was 20 years ago.
I wish Dime would had signed the guitar for you but great story.
I have this guitar never played in the case signed by Dime with a certificate of authenticity since about 1999...
Really incredible story!!
So lucky having a great gift from Lord Dime himself!!!!
Cheers dude!
Holy shit.. I mailed a response, too. That was my dream guitar. Unfortunately, I didn't stand a chance at winning since I'm left handed..
DUDE DIMEBAG HELD YOUR CULPRIT, THATS SOME BEYOND RARE SHIT NEVER SELL THE GUITAR, DIME KEEPS US ALL ROCKIN !
Dude that's badass good for you, I met Dime he was cool as hell thanks for the story.
The law of attraction this man manifested what he wanted.
How fucking cool haha. A memory you'll never forget.
This is such a cool story, even though I;d watched it before, still gives me joy listening to it! Thank You for sharing it, hope You're still having that guitar! \m/
Awesome... Love the guitar
Fucking awesome story man wow……
Dude, this video is awesome. For one you still have the guitar, 2. you are a real guitar player and fan, and C. just guessing but the guitar may be top of the line for dime style. Pretty cool pretty cool.
Awesome story and guitar.
A dream come true. This is actually so cool happy for you man
I had the chance to get one of these for £700 multiple times. I didn’t buy it because i was looking for a dime 3 Washburn 😳
Cool story and awesome guitar. I wish Washburn would rerelease those.
Dean Zelinsky posted a video a cut out culprit for Dimeguitarz that are coming out next year or the end of this year
it truly is probably the rarest dime axe..its legitimately from him...
Fantastic, well done 👏🏻 🤘🏼
i remember that contest and had every korn magazine and Dean Guitars just returned and was hunting for artist so i purchased a avalanche 7 string and sent them a a song from my band and pics of me with guitar never got answer but i still a a avalanche 7 in my arsenal its my favorite guitar
Amazing…
This shit made my day...I don't know why.....well I mean...I guess it's obvious why even though it doesn't "feel" like it is.
Basically.....Dime was a great dude.....every fudgeking piece of footage you can find of him when he's only turned up to 10/10 instead of 37/10......he is nothing less than a genuine "dude".....always right on the verge of laughing or making a humourous statement, or summoning his alter ego "Getcha'self a pull Paul"....just go watch all the footage of him slumming it....standing around an armpit guitar store playing, talking, and sincerely trying to hang with the plebs.
I like to think that if he were here today, he'd have shown us all over these lost years without him just how cool he really was. Shit was still so crazy and "top of the world" back when he passed that we never got to watch him settle down and do what the fuck ever he would have wanted to do with his time.
When people ask that stupid fudgeking question "If you could have dinner with any three people that ever lived..who would they be?"
My answer is:
1.Dime
2.Nikola Tesla
3. Mark Twain(optional sub in: Hunter S. Thompson)
Man everyone knows if he would of went up there dime would of been there to sign all the other shit for him
Love the story brother.
nice dude .
So cool story dimebag is the best guitar player in metal
That shit is priceless, too bad you didn't keep the original pickups
Jay Leno didnt do top ten, that was Letterman, man
Incredible
thank you for sharing
You ever see video of Daryl play the red strat and break the bar?
What an awesome story!!!
Good story, but Cemetery Gates is a little loud in the background there
DAMN
You dissed Dime, you could have met him , toured the factory....im amazed at the disrespect
*AMAZING*
Awesome
Loving the t-shirt \m/
supper dupper cool bro
such a sick story!
Awesome story. So Jealous. I had a chance to buy that EXACT model, black n everything, about 6 yrs ago. Dude wanted like $450 for it, but hold on...reason I decided against it, was he had broken the headstock in half. I still wish I had gotten it from him, even with it broke and repaired. It was something I had to trust him on as far as it played fine etc cuz He had to ship it. It was just too much of a risk, if i could have tried it out in person and it was ok, I would have prob got it. it did have slight other damage to it too, but these are so rare, Id kill to have a fucked up one,lol. If he woulda done like $300,maybe $350 I prob woulda got it. The damage looked kinda severe, like it was a bad crack, so I just passed. My only other sorta relatable story is when I was like 12 yrs old, I used to collect baseball, sports cards. And I had gotten a SUPER SUPER RARE Autographed by like Mickey Mantle Upper Deck card in like 1990 in a pack of cards as a promo/ contest.. You could obviously keep the card, or they had this contest sorta thing where they said on the package if you sent the card in, they would send you the entire yrs like 500 card set with the Mantle sent back with it. Issue was you had to send a baseball card in the mail to some address to a Corpo office and just HOPE with no talking on the phone or anything, that you'd actually get the set back and the autographed Mantle back. The set was worth a few hundred I think which was alot back then for a 12 yr old, and I got the card back to. So I risked it and sent it in and MADE SURE I put the right address etc. I NEVER got the shit returned ,meaning I lost the card and set and never was able to get it resolved. I was PISSED. That Mantle alone is worth a fortune, or atleast it was when i checked like 10-15 yrs ago, cuz he only signed like 3 cards, and kids in 1990 were buying baseball cards by the wheel barrel, so out of millions of cards, 3 were signed so they were worth a ton immediately. like 5x what the whole set was worth at the time, so I shoulda just held onto it. Was an article a yr later about that contest stating only 1 of the 3 were ever known to be found, or the other 2 that were werent reported to the Baseball Beckett mag that helped with the contest. Was complicated,lol. So the other 2 MIGHT still be inside unopened packs somewhere, as alot of older collectors at the time were buying cases of the cards and keeping em sealed and put em away. So that card would be worth a fortune now. I woulda sold it for beer $$ anyways a couple yrs later when I retired from racing motocross and baseball, and became a musician,lol.
Your a lucky man
Why no play the guitar?
Sick!
Haha , yes i read that.
я купил гитару как у Бородаймбэга,но играть я на ней конечно же не буду)
wish you played a bit
Probably can't 😂
@@ALLforROME there's tons of live performance vids of our band performing with this guitar and many others. check em out and you judge!
czcams.com/video/GRn_U9QLU6s/video.html here's live footage
Ill start the bidding $100
Pretty Gnarly shape, however, tang headstock?