"Rock Stars and Tattoo Artists join forces for music education & to pay tribute to metal's greatest guitarist"

Event Specifics

Six-String Masterpieces: The Dimebag Darrell Art Tribute will be on display as a featured attraction of the 29th Annual Dallas International Guitar Festival and MusicFest taking place April 21 to 23, 2006 at The Dallas Market Hall.  

SIX STRING MASTERPIECES:
THE DIMEBAG DARRELL ART TRIBUTE is:

A charitable Art Exhibit that will tour the US and abroad throughout 2006, followed by an auction of the guitars to benefit foundations dedicated to art & music education.  

This attraction features over 40 DEAN ML Guitars that have been hand-painted, illustrated and sculpted by many of America's favorite rock musicians and tattoo artists.  Rob Zombie, Marilyn ManClarkson and Linkin Park, as well as top artists from the modern art & tattoo world such as Derek Hess, Ron English, Ryan McGinness, Paul Booth and Jack Rudy have donated their time and talent to create this charitable event in support of music education and to pay tribute to one of the most respected and cherished rock musicians to ever pick up an instrument – Dimebag Darrell Abbott of Pantera & Damage Plan.   

This exhibit is a memorial tribute to the greatest metal guitarist of all time, DIMEBAG DARRELL ABBOTT who grew up in Dallas, TX.  This is an unprecedented happening, featuring multi-platinum artists coming together to memorialize a great friend and artist, and to create positive community support through an anti-violence and pro-education message.   

35 guitars from this collection will be on display in Dallas, with the rest of the collection currently on tour in Europe.

COME ON DALLAS MEDIA – WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO GET THE WORD OUT ON THIS!!

 Guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott, drummer Vinnie Paul and bassist Rex Brown were the formation of what would become PANTERA.  Pantera’s rise to metal fame was catapulted by the release of ‘Cowboys from Hell’ in 1990.  ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ followed and with it, brought the band star status and domination in the hard rock/metal music community for a decade.  The band received four GRAMMY nominations, Platinum for ‘The Great Southern Trendkill’ , ‘Cowboys From Hell’ and ‘Pantera’s Greatest Hits’  and Double Platinum for ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ and ‘Far Beyond Driven’ that had its debut at Number One on the Billboard album chart. Released in 2000, ‘Reinventing the Steel’ was the final studio effort from the band.  Darrell and Vinnie went on to form Damageplan, releasing ‘New Found Power’ in 2003. During a Damageplan performance in Columbus, Ohio on December 8, 2004, Dimebag Darrell Abbott was fatally shot at the age of 38.  This was met with an incredible outpouring from the entire music industry. Darrell was extremely cherished and respected by artists of all genres.

The actual guitar model being used as the “canvas” is the DEAN ML, originally designed in 1976 by DEAN ZELINSKY, the founder of DEAN GUITARS.  This is DIMEBAG DARRELL’S signature instrument, the exact model he played his whole life.   DEAN GUITARS has kindly donated all of the guitars to this project.

Prior to his unfortunate death, Abbott had designed the DIMEBAG DARRELL COLLECTION of ML’s with DEAN GUITARS.  In accordance with the Abbott family’s wishes, these amazingly designed instruments were made available to the public in 2005.  DEAN GUITARS remains committed to keeping DIMEBAG DARRELL’S dream alive of making the finest metal guitars in the world bearing his name.  This exhibit celebrates Dime’s enthusiasm and energy.

 A preview of SIX STRING MASTERPIECES was recently unveiled to 40,000 people at Winter NAMM (Jan. 2006), one of the music industries most essential events.  The exhibit received incredible response and is now poised to be one of the most appealing and talked about exhibits of 2006.  

For Further Information on Six- String Masterpieces please contact:

Curse Mackey
Producer – Curator
813.477.2552

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ARTIST LIST FOR SIX-STRING MASTERPIECES

Moby * Rob Zombie * Ryan McGinness – NYC contemporary artist *Dave Grohl – Foo Fighters *Jonathan Davis – Korn * James Hetfield – Metallica * Charlie Benante - Anthrax * Sammy Hagar * Greg Tribbett – Mudvayne * Sum 41 * Ted Nugent * Shannon Larkin – Godsmack * Joe Satriani * Steve Stevens * Jim Root – Slipknot * Tom Morello - Audioslave * Mark Mothersbaugh – Devo * Jerry Cantrell – Alice in Chains * Kirk Hammett - Metallica * Dave Navarro * Billy Corgan – Smashing Pumpkins * Kerry King – Slayer * Bob Zilla - Damage Plan, DALLAS-BASED * Zakk Wylde – Black Label Society * Tommy Lee – Motley Crue * Oderus Urungus - Gwar * Marilyn Manson * Chester Bennington – Linkin Park * Michael Anthony – Van Halen* Munky - Korn  * Aaron Cain -  master of bio-mechanical tattooing  * Joe Capobianco – Hope Gallery Tattoo* Jason D'Aquino – Blue Moon Tattoo * Joe Hahn – Linkin Park * Paul Booth – Last Rites Tattoo, has a fine art opening in Berlin soon! * Filip Leu – Leu Family Iron, tattooist, surrealist artist * Sean Crahan aka Clown - Slipknot * Ron English  - Popaganda Art  * Chino Moreno – Deftones * OTEP * Hank Williams III * Guy Aitchison – America's most groundbreaking tattoo artist * Mick Thomson – Slipknot  * Bob Tyrrell – well-known tattoo "portrait" artist * Jack Rudy  - legendary tattoo artist (see Steve-O's back!) * Gill Montie – Inkslinger’s Ball Producer, Texas-based tattoo artist. * Derek Hess –  contemporary artist  * Willie Adler – Lamb of God * Sas Christian - Florida based "lowbrow" artist * Kelly Clarkson  * Dan Donegan – Disturbed * Alexi Laiho – Children of Bodom * David Stoupakis – artist for the new Korn album 

More shows to be announced soon!

Six-String Masterpieces was curated by Curse Mackey, creative director of the Action Arts Agency in association with Elliott Rubinson, CEO of Dean Guitars and Dean Zelinsky, the company's founder.   son, Metallica, Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan, Dave Navarro, Korn, Michael Anthony of Van Halen, Ted Nugent, recent Grammy Award winners Kelly