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Few heavy metal acts survived the turmoil of the early 1990s music scene. Pantera was different. Instead of humoring the market, the band instead demanded that the audience come to them by releasing a series of fiercely uncompromising, platinum albums, including Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven—two #1 albums that, like Metallica’s And Justice for All, sold millions of copies despite minimal airplay.Rex Brown’s memoir is the definitive account of life inside one of rock’s biggest bands, which succeeded against all odds but ultimately ended in tragedy when iconic lead guitarist Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott was murdered mid-performance by a deranged fan.This is a lucid account of the previously untold story behind one of the most influential bands in heavy metal history, written by the man best qualified to tell the truth about those incredible and often difficult years of fame and excess.
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Brown's 50-year career has combined research, consulting and teaching on decision-aiding. His most recent graduate textbook is Rational Choice and Judgment: Decision analysis for the decider. He is an Incorporated Statistician, with a Harvard DBA and a Cambridge BA in economics and social anthropology. In 1968 he received the 1968 Oswald George Prize in Applied Statistics for his work on the credibility of estimates. He has taught at Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Carnegie-Mellon, Dartmouth College, Cambridge, and the University of Michigan, in public policy, business, statistics, managerial economics, organizational psychology and systems engineering. He was a founding council member of the Decision Analysis Society. He has consulted to a variety of senior government and business executives through Decision Science Consortium, Inc. (where he was Chairman). He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow in George Mason University's School of Public Policy.
