Made friends with an older Roadie dude at the Terminal 5 in NY who was working security there and what's not. So we were drinking it up with Red Fang
and Drummer from Mastodon while the opening acts are on and somebody starts going on about concerts in the 90's compared to concerts today. So the oldhead starts going on about having to never pay for a drink back in them days, Booze was provided blah blah and he was on about how venues like that would try their best to keep certain acts liquored/drugged so they'd atleast make it out on stage instead of no showing trying to score drugs/chicks. Back then it was a lesser evil to have an act get fukked up and atleast attempt to finish a show as opposed to having a member, especially a singer go AWOL doing shyt.
Then he goes on about volatile frontmen and shyt, touched down on Phil and started going on about how it was worse to deal with the aggresive addicts/junkies over the prima donna type cats who'd just stay in the trailer, fukk groupies and demand shyt. He said whenever he was working a Venue that Phil played he'd lean harder on liquor than everyone else since they made it a point to keep the place drug free and fire/blacklist roadies/groupies/etc.. back stage who helped them dudes score so Phil would just get fukked up on Alcohol and start picking fights with dudes for no reason (He and Vinnie fought alot around that time and Dimebag would just leave or go take a piss and never return he said) and would start mocking their Glam days talking about how he had to get these fairies out of that makeup Kiss shyt and into the real hardcore metal shyt.
He also said that Phil had a tendency to push his White pride shyt during the between song banter. These rants that almost always ended with him talking about how Rap promotes criminal shyt and Metal was about pride and the White man had alot to be proud of and if Black people could have Black pride than White Pride shouldn't just be about stifling black pride, it should be about the white man not letting himself get pushed around by anyone 'cause of political correctness and start White power chants. Whenever the band would try and segue into another song he'd continue on some bullshyt until he had the crowd whipped up and then perform with that negative energy brewing.
He kept saying that every time he met Pantera, the group was cool to everyone on a whole until Phil entered the room either high, drunk or both and just pretty much alienated everyone he had a problem with, and that was everyone it seems. Alot of other people told me about the white power chants and all his commentary during them shows in the 90's before camera phones and social media came about and concert footage back then wouldn't show that shyt for obvious reasons.
You should be somewhat familiar with this video of his back in the day. For the people that been caping for him saying that he really was joking...nah. Dude been like this a while now.