Zakk Wylde says he’s been watching YouTube tutorials to learn songs for Pantera reunion shows

completemusicupdate.com:

Zakk Wylde has revealed that he is preparing for upcoming Pantera shows by watching YouTube tutorials to help him to work out how to play some of the band’s songs.When Pantera’s Phil Anselmo and Rex Martin announced in July that they would reunite for shows next year, they revealed that Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Wylde and Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante would stand in for late Pantera members Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul respectively.Since then, Wylde has been prepping hard for these Pantera shows, and he has now spoken to guitarist Ola Englund, via his YouTube channel, about how that prep is going.There’s a bit in REM’s 1996’s tour documentary ‘Road Movie’ (bear with me here!) where the band decide that they want to add an old song to their setlist.

Unable to remember how to play it, Peter Buck has to go and buy the guitar tab from a local music shop.I guess this is the modern version of that.

Wylde told Englund: “Sometimes I was like, ‘what the hell was that?’ And I would just [search] how to play ‘Hostile’, or whatever.

I would just go on YouTube and see all these other amazing players play this stuff”.Still, until rehearsals start in the coming weeks, there are still issues with getting on top of all the songs. “Playing it with the record is one thing, but then you take the record away and it’s like, ‘Alright, play it for me’”, he says.“You know, [the recording is] a guideline – it’s like colouring by numbers, you know”, he goes on. “It’s like, ‘we’re taking the GPS off your car, do you remember how to get back to Hollywood?’ I have no idea, I was following the GPS the whole time”.He adds that he will be playing guitars at the upcoming shows that were given to him by Dimebag Darrell while he was still alive, while.