Dimebag Darrel shot and killed on stage

[lizard]

unfortunately you are right. Fox news headlined their coverage with the tasteless "Heavy Metal Massacre" which makes it sound more along the lines of a picnic.

 

[Josh Seipp]

i am still in shock you guys.

i am not sure how much of an influence he was on ym playing but i know i always used to try and make my artificial harmonic divebombs sound as fucking amazing as his.

tonight i will go whammy the shit out of my guitar in his memory.

dude he was such a big influence on me. man I rreally don't think this has sunk in yet. he's one of those rare dudes that I never really lost respect for, even though I wasn't all that keen on damageplan or the last pantera cd.

fuck.

 

[xfer]

"heavy metal massacre" = awesome

 

[Baliset]

dude he was such a big influence on me. man I rreally don't think this has sunk in yet. he's one of those rare dudes that I never really lost respect for, even though I wasn't all that keen on damageplan or the last pantera cd.

fuck.

i am in COMPLETE agreement.

i love his playing. his solos were so fucking amazing and his rhythm chops were incredible as well.

 

[Astral Poetry]

Haha, I'm mainly reading through the thread for Alex's hilarious comments. You can rest assured, when tragedy strikes Alex is the first one with zombie jokes.

 

[Helm]

I don't want to be an asshole, but I guess people should be easier on the grieving. Lots of people die every day, many more tragically than this and I don't see people pasting crudely cropped heads of african aids victim #12356043 on animated gifs that say 'we miss you' on photoshop. I understand many people either knew him a little or a lot and/or were influenced by him but most are just coming along for the ride, because mourning is ok it reminds us we're decent human beings that care for other people blah blah just like with the guitarist from Death a couple of years ago. I've seen so many little Chuck heads tattoo'ed on people's arms and backs since then I've started to think it's a fate worse than death to be remembered like that, on the back of some huge sweaty dude's back.

 

[kleo706]

I'd rather be remembered on the front of some guy's sweaty back...

 

[xfer]

the British are the ones who are really giving this story the play and spin it deserves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4084529.stm

Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne has expressed his shock at the death of guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, who was shot at a concert on Wednesday.

 

[avi]

they ran a second story in the SF chron today with reports from the heavy metal/music world that puts the event in much better context.

 

[lizard]

I think the mainstream media was taken aback by the outpouring of sentiment from so many people....obviously, its a huge story here.

the marine corps won't say why the killer was separated well short of his enlistment.

 

[mindspell]

CNN also revised their story saying something iof the effect of the "huge influence" Pantera had on metal music.

 

[Baliset]

the local fox news here interviewed Cannae at their rehearsal space last night about it.

 

[mindspell]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4092&item=3859492187&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

this is terrible...

 

[lizard]

Now Fox is featuring the alliteratively lyrical "Heavy Metal Murder Mystery"

and Alex, this shows this killer was formed in the crucible of SPORTS

 

[azal]

some kid from the crowd handed Rob Flynn a picture of Dimebag last night at the Machine Show in Belgrade and the dudes paid him a nice tribute and had a minute of silence. (Which was invariably ruined by a fat skinhead)
The show was awesome, but I realized that I'm finally too old to mosh because I'm terribly sore today.

 

[xfer]

yeah, lizard, there was a whole article i read about how the killer was a SPORTS THUG who used to "listen to Pantera to get himself psyched up for the game" (football).

 

[lizard]

plus he LIVED WITH HIS MOM

 

[0sm0se]

Hey, could we not hate the game for a moment and remember to hate the player a lot more?

 

[Astral Poetry]

I don't want to be an asshole, but I guess people should be easier on the grieving. Lots of people die every day, many more tragically than this and I don't see people pasting crudely cropped heads of african aids victim #12356043 on animated gifs that say 'we miss you' on photoshop. I understand many people either knew him a little or a lot and/or were influenced by him but most are just coming along for the ride, because mourning is ok it reminds us we're decent human beings that care for other people blah blah just like with the guitarist from Death a couple of years ago. I've seen so many little Chuck heads tattoo'ed on people's arms and backs since then I've started to think it's a fate worse than death to be remembered like that, on the back of some huge sweaty dude's back.

My thoughts exactly, though I've alway really hated Pantera and the projects surrounding the band.

 

[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. – John from Vehemence