Dimebag Darell Shot Dead

[bender the offender]

Apparently the gunman killed him cos he broke up Pantera:\

apparently he has told that his life was ruined when pantera split up.

 

[Ol' Dirty Bastard]

I'm not a Pantera fan, but yeah, this is pretty fucked up.

It was only a matter of time before something like this happened though, given the shitty security most clubs offer.

Obviously this club will be shut down due to lawsuits.

 

[blackeyed]

fucking hell, it comes to bloody something when you can't even go to a gig without getting killed. It's a pissing joke.

RIP.

 

[Gronke]

@toolsofthetrade Interesting namedropping there on blabbermouth, bands no-one heard about gets free publicity... quite low.

 

[Gronke]

A friend of mine worked with one of the bands that toured with Dimebag&co, and apparently the shooter got inside the venue through the beer garden in the back. He jumped the fence, and got chased by security as he was going in. The venue was known to be very friendly and all of that, but oh well...

 

[MoonsOfJupiter]

RIP in Valhalla.

I hope he's jamming with Cliff Burton, Randy Rhoads, Chuck Schuldiner, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham and Paul Baloff.

Incidents like this confirm my beliefs about this being such a cruel and disgusting world. What kind of repercussions will the underground music community have to deal with because of this?

Dimebag, you will be missed. Considering Pantera was one of the first heavy bands I got into; it would be conceited of me not to say that Dimebag was one of the many reasons I started to learn guitar 9 and a half years ago.

 

[pulled_under_balance_judgement]

what about the other damageplan's member dead ? and how many deads in the crowd ?

kris

 

[zupi_clone]

@toolsofthetrade Interesting namedropping there on blabbermouth, bands no-one heard about gets free publicity... quite low.

quite interesting yes... quite low.

 

[french_anatheman]

Ahhhh, that's really a pity he was killed.
RIP

 

[oe]

Some people on E-bay are trying to make money off of Dimebag's death, that's just plain sick. I did see some people who are supposedly gonna redirect the funds gained to charity, but I dont know. I'm sure a bunch of them are out to make some cash out of this tragedy, bastards.

 

[Don Corleone]

RIP in Valhalla.

I hope he's jamming with Cliff Burton, Randy Rhoads, Chuck Schuldiner, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham and Paul Baloff.

Incidents like this confirm my beliefs about this being such a cruel and disgusting world. What kind of repercussions will the underground music community have to deal with because of this?

Dimebag, you will be missed. Considering Pantera was one of the first heavy bands I got into; it would be conceited of me not to say that Dimebag was one of the many reasons I started to learn guitar 9 and a half years ago.

good call

a true guitar hero. i listened to cowboys from hell all the way through in rememberance.

may he rest in peace

 

[breaklose]

theres that song on 'cowboys from hell', i think its called 'shattered'? its really really really shite.

 

[zupi_clone]

never liked that shite, phil anselmo is a wanker, id like to see him take a walk through castle park here in athy, the fucking hard man uke:

 

[breaklose]

'vulgar display of power' is the only good album they ever did, the others have 2 or 3 good songs each but apart from that

 

[VEHEMENCE]

When I heard that “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott was murdered while on stage, all I could think about at the time was then I met him when I was 15 at Zia Records by my house in Phoenix, AZ. I waited some hours to get my poster autographed by all of Pantera, most importantly my favorite metal guitarist of all time. Years later, I had the privilege to talk to him at an adult level about 3 months before this tragedy happened, at the age of 22. With a beer in my hand at the famous Rainbow Room Bar and Grill on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, I ran into Dime by the cigarette machine and asked him if I could speak with him. We talked about a lot of things for about 5 min, like when he played Mesa Amphitheater in Mesa, AZ on The Great Southern Trendkill tour in 1996. He was real responsive and friendly, and I wished him much future success in his new band Damageplan which I was impressed by with the work he did on their debut album New Found Power. When I thought about how we said goodbye, what happened was Dime and I hit both our fists together, and I said, “See ya at the Damageplan show in Tempe, AZ and his typical saying he said to me was “You know it brother,” I basically cried the second I heard the news and reminisced on that great moment.

He was such a down to earth guy, and influenced my life as a guitar player all throughout my teenage years. It was spiritual to get ready for a Pantera concert and to hear the man play live growing up. This affects all the metal communities worldwide, it will affect me for the rest of my life, and he will go down in history as a guitar legend and as a lifestyle. As a musician, I am not afraid when I perform on stage, even if a band doesn’t have any security, there is that sense of decency at least for a human not to harm another human over music. For this person with mental illness or whatever it was that triggered the murder, the stalker like obsession for musicians or any celebrity should be reported immediately to authorities. I don’t think this has ever happened before in the history of music, as far as someone getting on stage and executing someone while they are still handling their instrument. I will never forget this tragic event, to me it hit harder than 9/11.

We dedicated our show to Dimebag Dec 10th, 2004 at The Marquee Theater at the same venue Damageplan performed about a month prior from the show. The show started out as a local metal bands fest, but it was declared a memorial for Dimebag with about 800 in attendance. Channel 5 news did a coverage story about the issue of violence at metal shows with me and some of the Motive members. Our vocalist Nathan Gearhart did guest vocals with a thrash metal band from Phoenix, called Motive, they performed Fucking Hostile by Pantera. R.I.P. Dimebag, shred some licks with Chuck Schuldiner in the spiritual world, and we will meet again. My deepest condolences go to the family and friends of the victims in this berserk asinine shooting.

 

[Allan]

somebody quote that post about free publicity

 

[breaklose]

haha i was gonna say that. see i hope this serves as a warning to all the shitty metal musicians worldwide : this is what happens when you keep releasing mediocre albums like 'reinventing the steel'. but i still think dan swano should have been shot instead of dimebag.

 

[french_anatheman]

haha i was gonna say that. see i hope this serves as a warning to all the shitty metal musicians worldwide : this is what happens when you keep releasing mediocre albums like 'reinventing the steel'. but i still think dan swano should have been shot instead of dimebag.

Ah Dan SwaNO!!!NO!!!
Say NO to Dan SwaNO!!!
And Dime's probably not the last one to be killed this way

 

[my dying groom]

'vulgar display of power' is the only good album they ever did, the others have 2 or 3 good songs each but apart from that

righty right

 

[MoonsOfJupiter]

good call

a true guitar hero. i listened to cowboys from hell all the way through in rememberance.

may he rest in peace

I listened to that album also a few days back.