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a buddy of mine just got home from the Damageplan show in Columbus ohio. he said a guy jumped on stage and started shooting at the band...killing Dime instantly..leaving others, including vinne paul (former pantera drummer) in critical condition.
http://www.revnkevin.com/Dimebag.jpg
excuse me, i have a pink beard, lady!
Holy crap! That's just nuts!
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/09/nig...ing/index.html
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ December 09, 2004 01:58 AM: Message edited by: pairadocs ]</font>
Wow, that's just fucked up. RIP
Shit! DP was going to be playing at the Local "Twisted Christmas" bash. This is gona suck. The Radio station here that hosts it is going to be all Fucked up today. The head DJ was REALY close friends with all the guys in DP, they just played at his bar like a week ago.
RIP
http://www.concertlivewire.com/jpegs/dimebag.jpg
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Holy crap! I just saw it on CNN this morning. I had no idea it was Dimebag!
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That is so f'ed up.
I was a Pantera fan and was also following his new band Damageplan.
RIP indeed.
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<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ December 09, 2004 11:49 AM: Message edited by: ?SNAPE? ]</font>
Damn rip dimebag you'll rock forever with the greats in the afterlife. [img]frown.gif[/img]
...*genuinely shocked*. O_O ;_;
I'm speechless and very depressed. I loved reading his column in Guitar magazine as much as I loved his playing...
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Former Pantera Guitarist Killed on Stage
58 minutes ago Entertainment - AP
By JAY COHEN, Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A gunman charged onstage at a packed nightclub and opened fire on the band and the crowd, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other people before a police officer shot him to death, authorities and witnesses said.
AP Photo
Columbus police department spokeswoman Sherry Mercurio identified three of the victims of Wednesday's shooting as Abbott, guitarist with the heavy metal rock band Damageplan, and two other men, Nathan Bray and Erin Halk.
Damageplan had just begun their first song at the Alrosa Villa when the man opened fire, first targeting Abbott, shooting him multiple times at point-blank range, a witness said.
Abbott, 38, one of metal's top guitarists, and his brother, Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, were original members of Grammy-nominated thrash rock pioneers Pantera, one of the most popular metal bands of the early 1990s.
The witness, 22-year-old Chris Couch, said he was standing about 30 feet away from the stage when he noticed a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and hockey jersey walk up to the stage, followed by a bouncer and another club employee.
The man in the jersey climbed onto the stage, started yelling and shot the guitarist five or six times at close range, Couch said. He said the gunman also shot a bouncer who pulled him off the musician.
Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mull said that after shooting at members of the band, the gunman fired into the crowd. Mull said a police officer who arrived shortly after the shooting began shot and killed the gunman.
"If the officer wasn't as close as he was, I think this would have been a lot worse," he said. "It was a chaotic scene, just a horrific scene."
Mercurio said the officer who killed the suspect was patrolling nearby when he heard the call go out. He entered the club through a back door and was directed to the stage, where he saw one person lying dead and the suspect holding onto another person, Mercurio said. The officer shot and killed the suspect.
The suspect's name and that of the fifth person killed were not immediately released. Mercurio said their family members are still being notified.
After the shooting began, Couch and a friend headed for the exit along with a tide of hundreds of fans.
"It was definitely a grudge. It was against something," Couch said.
Amanda Stankus, 19, who attended the show with Couch, said she initially thought the shooting was part of the show. "I just saw the guitarist fall down, and we decided to get out of there," she said.
The Abbott brothers produced Damageplan's debut album, "New Found Power," which was released in February. Other band members are vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla.
"Damageplan carries on the tradition Pantera started, the ... hell-raising tradition we were all about," Vinnie Paul Abbott told The Dallas Morning News in October. "We do play some Pantera songs. Me and Dime wrote them, and we feel like we have the right to play them. But the focus is on Damageplan.
"It took a while for some of the Pantera fans to accept it; we knew that was gonna be the case," he said. "Change is something that people have a hard time accepting. But me and Dime intended on doing this our whole lives."
A message left with Atlantic Records, which oversees the record label on which Damageplan records, was not immediately returned.
Damageplan's Web site said Darrel and Vinnie Abbott grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area where their father, country songwriter Jerry Abbott, owned a recording studio.
Telephone numbers for both Darrell and Jerry Abbott are unlisted and could not be reached early Thursday by The Associated Press.
Pantera, known for its brutally hard, fast and aggressive sound, recorded four albums in the 1990s. They attracted a massive cult following and the band's third release, "Far Beyond Driven," debuted at No. 1 in 1994, surprising chart-watchers and critics alike.
Pantera was nominated for Grammys (news - web sites) for best metal performance in 1995 for "I'm Broken" and in 2001 for "Revolution Is My Name." The video "The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits," made charts earlier this year as one of the top 10 in music video sales.
Dozens of messages were posted to the Dallas band's Web site after the shootings.
"This is the worst day in metal history," one posting read.
"The metal world feels your pain," another wrote
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ December 09, 2004 09:12 AM: Message edited by: Skull-n-Bones ]</font>
I just heard this on the news this morning, practically threw up, holy fuck....
I had no idea it was Dimebag until I saw on a site just a minute ago... damn, and I was just reading an article with them two in it
I dont even know what to say...
yeah, i was one of the biggest pantera fans for years. this all just makes me sick to my stomach. ive seen them in concert 25 or so times, been back stage to hang out, and spent countless hrs screaming along to their music.
its just unreal what people will do.
...I was in the truck on the way to work when I heard it on the radio, and I almost fucking cried right then and there, and I don't give a fuck who knows it. [img]frown.gif[/img]
Before I even liked alot of metal or anything, I saw a Pantera video when I was about 12, and loved it, shit, just can't believe it...
I feel an interesting thread topic coming on...will make you think.
Aw christ! I just heard Damageplan was suppose to play here tonight at the Machine Shop. Damn that sucks!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The show that'll never be...Quote:
Man! [img]frown.gif[/img] people really suck sometimes!!!
What the fuck was the point of that?
RIP-Dimebag!
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goddamn, this fucking sucks. a very dark day for rock and roll.
...and we may never know what the fucktard with the gun even did it for. Fuckin' crazy.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">TBH, I think it was just some fucking nutter with a massive hard on for Phil. Fucking disciple or some equally nonsensical bullshit.Quote:
Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
...and we may never know what the fucktard with the gun even did it for. Fuckin' crazy.
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foudn this article, pretty much clears up why the psycho did it, warning, the dickhead's comments at the bottom will anger you [img]tongue.gif[/img]
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/...182427038.html
Sell it on ebay? Fucking heartless bastard.
yeah I read that on tv when I came home from work..althoug not that into Pantera but darn why do this stuff happen ppl are nuts and its a sad sad lose [img]frown.gif[/img]
That's freakin sick, he might sell off his ticket stub because there's blood on it? what the fuck is wrong with people now a days? Un-fuckin-believeable...
...yeah, but who's sicker, the asshole that sells it, or the asshole that buys it?
...you know some putz would but it if he sold it.
...sad.
Welp its officoal, "Twisted Christmas" is axed. I don't blame them. Damage Plan and Drowning Pool were to be the only two acts in the show. Drowning Pool pulle the plug on the gig cuz they didn't feel right doing it. I don't blame them one bit.
Here is the station web site with more info.
http://www.989therock.com/on-air/content.html?uniq=6166
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">two bands that lost their lead singer. sad.....Quote:
Originally posted by Guyver:
Welp its officoal, "Twisted Christmas" is axed. I don't blame them. Damage Plan and Drowning Pool were to be the only two acts in the show. Drowning Pool pulle the plug on the gig cuz they didn't feel right doing it. I don't blame them one bit.
Here is the station web site with more info.
http://www.989therock.com/on-air/content.html?uniq=6166
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">two bands that lost their lead singer. sad.....</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Did the singer of damgeplan die also?Quote:
Originally posted by Biohazard:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Guyver:
Welp its officoal, "Twisted Christmas" is axed. I don't blame them. Damage Plan and Drowning Pool were to be the only two acts in the show. Drowning Pool pulle the plug on the gig cuz they didn't feel right doing it. I don't blame them one bit.
Here is the station web site with more info.
http://www.989therock.com/on-air/content.html?uniq=6166
I thought dimebag(the guitarplayer) was the only one killed?
dimebag was in damageplan, they started that band after the pantera breakup.
local rock station here did mandatory damageplan/pantera instead of mandatory metallica tonight.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I know that bio, hell i was listen to them when you were wetting your diapers,Quote:
Originally posted by Biohazard:
dimebag was in damageplan, they started that band after the pantera breakup.
local rock station here did mandatory damageplan/pantera instead of mandatory metallica tonight.
Dimebag isn't the singer, he plays the guitar in pantera and was damageplans guitarplayer, his brother was the drummer with him in both bands.
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ December 09, 2004 09:57 PM: Message edited by: Guitardeth. ]</font>
My ex called me up this morning to tell me, felt like fucking crying. Still can't believe it happened [img]frown.gif[/img] I really hope Phil sends out his condolences and gives me one fucking reason to respect him [img]graemlins/thumbs_down.gif[/img]
Sad sad news...