Jerry Montano: SCREWED OVER!

How much of a piece of trash is Vinnie Paul Abbott? Well, ask Jerry Montano, who knows it all too well. It's an old subject that begs to be repeated here. Back in 2007, the metal/hard rock supergroup know as HELLYEAH - still, quite possibly the dumbest, lamest, and just plain STUPID name given to any band - released an album called.... wait for it..... HELLYEAH! and the world of southern-comfort rock was born.





Along the way something happened, and rumors and speculation concerning Montano's dismissal from the band ignited a firestorm of gossip. One report is that he threatened to shoot everyone at the Vinnie Paul's dive bar/strip club, The Clubhouse, which mirrored the same fate as Abbott's deceased brother Dimebag Darrell only a couple years before. Other reports say that it was a fight between him and former Nothingface bandmate Tom Maxwell, and then another altercation with Sterling Winfield, who mixed and produced albums in the past for Pantera and recently for HELLYEAH. But the truth, at least according to Montano, was something far more conniving and ruthless on the part of Vinnie Paul.








Getting drunk with Montano


Apparently, the bloated drummer wanted Damageplan bassist Bob "Zilla" Kakaha to join the band and forcing Montano out after a squabble between Montano's lady-friend and another female patron. Seizing the perfect opportunity to let the former bassist go, the spin was that it was all Montano's fault for being drunk, violent and too belligerent to continue working with. Montano was out and Kakaha was in. I met up with Montano a couple weeks ago at a New York bar and the dude seemed nice enough and quite non-threatening, even if he'll accept your drinks without offering you one... and I tend to question his choice of friends, among those being a little troll by the name of Jeremy who seems to follow him everywhere and possibly licks Montano's nuts. But Montano's confession to me suggests and even parallels the exact sae thing told to me by Rita Haney-Abbott, aka Dimebag's Hag, back in 2008.








So drunk I can barely walk w/ Montano



Vinnie Paul is a ruthless, greedy douchebag and he is willing to backstab and buttfuck his bandmates should the convenience arise. Shame on Vinnie Paul! To paraphrase what I told Cantrell at the AIC show, it should have been Vinnie Paul instead of Dimebag! But for all we know, Montano is perhaps the one who is lying and probably deserved to get sacked. I did have a couple drinks and for a moment he opened up to me, seemingly good-natured and honest. He doesn't have time for such petty bickering and, through and through, is a perfect gentleman. At the moment, he's hard at work on something called "Down and Dirty," and whether it elevates him beyond the status and metal/rock rank of HELLYEAH is anyone's guess, but I can assure you one thing, it can't be any worse than "Stampede" and that god-awful album cover! WHEW!