Dimebag Darrell played Dean guitars and Randall solidstate amplifiers, then he switched to Washburn guitars (Which looked almost exactly like the Dean ML or Razorback) and Krank all tube amplifiers....
Dimebag is a 10 dollar bag of Marijuana.
Dimes originall name was Diaond and he never liked it so when he was buying some weed, his brothers drum tech "the Kat' said Dimebag Darrell is pretty catchy...
Apparantly the name was too similar to Fender (?) so Fender went to take them to court but Vester's pockets weren't deep enough to take on the big boys and they folded out of existence without going...