Lot's of mentions of dad; I thought they lost touch after Pantera hit it big?
Not to my knowledge. That reminded me of an interesting Vinnie Paul story - interesting to me at least.
I work as a commercial insurance agent. At my prior agency, around 2008-2009, one of the brokers/salesmen received a lead in writing an Author's E&O policy - liability coverage for an author that may make a claim in a book and be sued because of it. The client was the
Estate of Darrel Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell).
Vinnie and his dad put together a picture book about Dime and their lawyer recommended this specific type of insurance policy. So we receive the insurance applications, signed by Vinnie himself and a copy of the book to forward to underwriters. We wrote the policy and being a fan, I asked for the copy of the book back from the underwriter. I printed off the applications to keep with the book (which I had forgotten about and recently found while organizing my basement.
It was one way that my career in insurance collided with my hobby as a metalhead (another was issuing proof of insurance naming the members of Bon Jovi as insureds on my client's policy - the client created some software that Bon Jovi was going to use on tour in conjunction with their live show).