Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone - Bass Cover with Play Along Tabs

Bass cover of Pantera's song 5 Minutes Alone with Play Along in video Tabs. The tab is for a 4 string bass.

With the 2022 Pantera reunion/tribute I've been listening to a lot of Pantera who I've loved since I was a kid. I was even in a band named after this song 😂 Rex Brown is another reason I use Spector Basses. I always loved when Dime would be ripping a solo that there was no rhythm guitar track under that bad motherfucker so you could always hear Rex doing his thing, criminally underrated player and tone. When Metallica and Megadeth started to go down the 'alternate' route, Pantera did the opposite and got heavier and heavier, I don't know of any other bands that did that.

Thinking back to the early 2000's watching the Pantera home video's with a smoke on and some poorly mixed black tooth's seemed like a weekly event for me and my friends and I can clearly remember button mashing the refresh button on the Damageplan website on the morning of December 9th in 2004 😢 So this is for Dime and Vinnie for bringing many laughs and much bewilderment as to how good a musician/player each of them was, may they sleep easy 🥃🥃

Song: 5 Minutes Alone
Artist: Pantera
Album: Far Beyond Driven
Original Bassist: Rex Brown
Bass: @OfficialSpector Legend Classic 6 String
Strings: MTD Stainless Strings
Tuning: D G C F @ A - 425Hz or 428Hz

5 Minutes Alone is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1994 album Far Beyond Driven. The song also appears on the band's live album.

Speaking about what the song is about, Pantera's drummer Vinnie Paul said:

"The story behind this song is we were opening for Megadeth, and there was a guy that was flipping us off the whole show and so we stopped the show. And I was like, 'Listen, in case you haven't noticed there's 18,000 people who really dig what we're doing. You're the only one doing that stupid shit without even having to egg the crowd on.' Ten guys just jumped the guy and beat the shit out of him. His dad called the manager after all the lawsuits and this and that, and basically said, 'Give me five minutes with that Phil Anselmo guy. I want to whup his ass.' "

Pantera's vocalist Phil Anselmo spoke about what the song is about saying:

"There are always gold-diggers out there. The way I remember it was there was this kid that swore that I jumped off the stage and beat him up. Well, that was bullshit. That did not happen at all. When the father asked for five minutes alone with me, our manager responded aptly and perfectly: 'No, you don't. I really doubt that,' and basically hung up on the guy. But once that story was conveyed to me, it actually made me angry because it wasn't fucking true. I basically plucked out those words from my agitator's mouth and yeah, man, 'five minutes alone,' fucking bring it."

Upon release, the song had an immediate impact on the band's fanbase, quickly becoming one of Pantera's most popular songs.

Source Wikipedia.

Pantera 5 Minutes Alone Lyrics:
I see you had your mind all made up
You group of pitiful liars
Before I woke to face the day
Your master plan transpired
Something told me
This job has more to meet the eye
My song is not believed?
My words somewhat deceiving?
Now I'm unwhole
You waged your war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are
Can't leave the scar
You cry for compensation
I ask you please just give us
Five minutes alone
Just give us!
Five minutes alone, yeah!
I read your eyes, your mind was made up
You took me for a fool
You used complexion of my skin
For a counter racist tool
You can't burn me
I've spilled my guts out in the past
Taken advantage of
'Cause you know where I come from
My past
You've waged a war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are
Can't leave that scar
I'll pay your compensation
I ask you please just give us
Five minutes alone
Just give me!
Five minutes alone, yeah!
Head bangs on broken glass!
Five minutes
Alone!
Just give me!
Yeah!
Stop!
I ask you please just give us
Five minutes alone
Just give me!
Five minutes alone, yeah!
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us
I ask you please just give us (five minutes alone)
I ask you please
I ask you please
Five minutes alone!

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