First Look Inside New Hard Rock Cafe at Victory Park

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One week before it will welcome its first diners, Dallas' new Hard Rock Cafe hosted a walk-through press tour to get a look at Victory Park's newest dining spot and the rock memorabilia on the walls. All photos by Patrick Michels.

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My son and I stumbled in on Friday 7/03 on our walk from the Old Red to Victory (Ghost Town....).

My son said it the best - "This place looks like a parking garage!" (See Slide 25). Inside it looks just like any fern bar. Gee I miss the SUPREME COURT OF ROCK AND ROLL! RIP Hard Rock...

(Of course the kiddies will never know what they are missing)
Comment by IRememberwhen from Mesquite on Jul 6th, 2009, 16:20 pm
how completely sterile. some ones guna get the banahammer over this horrible concept push. lol i can see the board meeting. yeah its edgy and hip and so does not connect with our target market at all. good job at epic failure of a build out. nice digs but not a Hard Rock.
Comment by nobosy special on Jul 6th, 2009, 19:20 pm
Sorry, but that's not Dimebag's guitar. Look up any picture of him playing it. His actual guitar said "Reinventing The Steel" all across the fretboard. That's just a cheap replica donated from Dean Guitars, and can be purchased at any Guitar Center. I guess Hard Rock skimped on the real memorabilia. Pass on this one....

Don't believe me...here's a picture
http://images.miretail.com/products/optionLarge/DRStrings/307319jpg.jpg
Comment by inSain from Plano, TX on Jul 6th, 2009, 21:54 pm
Didn't the "real" guitar built for him say "Reinventing the Steel" written on the inlay of the fretboard?

Bought this one at Guitar Center?
Comment by Davil from Forney on Jul 6th, 2009, 23:59 pm
Yes, Dean Guitars has an entire of Dimebag models. You can buy them thru online retailers such as musiciansfriend.com or guitarcenter.com, or walk into any Guitar Center in this ridiculous mega-opolis, you'll see one of these in the Razorback series...

http://www.deanguitars.com/dean_winter_08/Razorback10000Commemorative_en.htm
Comment by Dave_from_Acquisitions on Jul 7th, 2009, 08:07 am
Last I checked, Willie Nelson was from Abbott, not Fort Worth. Maybe the bandana itself hails from Fort Worth, but I doubt it.
Comment by Noah on Jul 7th, 2009, 15:09 pm
...is this at the new EnormoDome? Can't tell the difference anymore. It should have been. I give it a year before it shutters.
Comment by rossc on Jul 9th, 2009, 02:23 am
That guitar is legit. That's a WASHBURN, not a Dean, first of all. And there were several versions of it made, all of which Dimebag tested out - one of which I have personally played, but it was way way too heavy, and Dimebag didn't want to play it live, and it ended up at Boogie Street Guitars in Pittsburgh and was sold to a private collector soon after.
Comment by Deege on Aug 19th, 2009, 08:52 am