re: Vinnie Paul Dead at 54

I don't ever recall seeing or hearing any quotes from Phil wishing Darrell were dead, but I have seen this one:

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"I think, more or less, it lies between Dimebag and I. There was never a point when he could not get drunk. Which was pretty much every day. And now I'm hearing it's worse than ever.

"He would attack me, vocally. And just knowing that he was so much smaller than me I could kill him like a frickin' piece of vapor, you know, he would turn into vapor — his chin would, at least, if I frickin' smacked it. And he knows that. The world should know that. So physically, of course, he deserves to be beaten severely.

"But of course, that's criminal and I won't do such a thing… Really, I just let him prattle on. I grew very tired of it very quickly, and whenever it came up, like it has come up today, I just chose to wish them the best of luck. And in all honesty I really wish that they would be men, which is very hard for them, figuring that they were living in their mother's house until they're 30 years old. In comparison, I was on the street by choice at the age of 15, living anywhere I could — but living, and successfully living, through my will."

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Basically just saying Dime needed a good arse kicking. I think that was just blown out of proportion after Dime's death.

For what it's worth, yesterday I was talking to my friend who was in the band with Phil, and he said Vinnie was never into drugs. He may have been a drinker, but not a druggie. He spoke to Vinnie recently in Vegas where, as others have said, Vinnie spent a lot of his time.