Pantera's late guitarist Dimebag Darrell was a big Van Halen fan, so when a limited edition guitar with EVH's signature tape-stripping was about to be launched, Darrell called Van Halen trying to buy on. Van Halen said no, but promised to bring him one personally. Darrell was killed on-stage soon after, so when Eddie van Halen came to his funeral he put one of these hand-taped guitars in his casket.

Drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott and his brother Dimebag Darrell, who famously played together in power-metal band Pantera, are buried next to each other, as band's social pages revealed grave marker installed last week, Blabbermouth reports. Metal musicians are buried at Moore Memorial Gardens cemetery in Arlington, Texas, and Abbott's grave marker is engraved with quote: […]