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Dimebag Darrell Is Dead Thursday, December 9, 2004

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Posted 09 December 2004 - 04:05 PM

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Rock guitarist among 4 killed at Ohio club
Thursday, December 9, 2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNN) -- A 25-year-old man stormed the stage at a heavy-metal rock concert Wednesday night, shooting and killing Damageplan guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three others before a police officer shot and killed him, Columbus police said.

On Thursday, police identified the suspect as Nathan Gale of nearby Marysville. A spokesman said police had no information about a motive or possible link to the band.

"Right now we don't see any connection at all, but that could change," Columbus police Sgt. Brent Mull said. "Unless he left a note or there's something else, we may never know the motive."

At least two people also were wounded in the attack, which occurred shortly after Damageplan began its performance at the Alrosa Villa nightclub on Columbus' north side.

James Niggemeyer of the Columbus police was nearby and responded to a call about the shooting. He slipped in a back door, and someone directed him to the stage, Mull said.

"We got the call about 10:18, and by 10:20 he was in there," Mull said, adding that "it was probably less than a minute before he engaged" the suspect, who was holding a hostage.

"The officer was able to strategically gun this guy down before he was able to kill his hostage," Mull said. "It appeared he was about to kill his hostage before this officer put an end to it."

Mull said the hostage was unharmed and that Niggemeyer's action saved lives.

"The officer ran in without any backup ... obviously put himself at risk," he said. "The community has a real hero here."

Abbott, 38, and his brother, Vinnie Paul Abbott, 40, formed Damageplan after the breakup of Pantera -- a group they formed in the 1980s. Their father is Jerry Abbott, a country and western songwriter and producer.

Pantera's third release, "Far Beyond Driven," debuted at No. 1 in 1994. The band was nominated for Grammys in 1995 and 2001.

The band dissolved at the end of a tour last year -- amid much speculation on fan Web sites that the split was not amicable. The two brothers, however, played down any bitterness during an April 1 interview with CNN.

"It just kind of got narrow-minded, and we just wanted to bust it open a little bit more and just broaden it up, go for the Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors instead of the one, you know what I mean?" Darrell Abbott said.

Vinnie Paul Abbott said: "We had 13 years of really, really good success. And basically the singer wanted to move on, do some other things and really lost his focus."

http://www.cnn.com/2...ting/index.html


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Posted 09 December 2004 - 05:52 PM

Oh my word...

There's nothing to say, apart from stating the obvious - that completly and utterly sucks.
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Posted 09 December 2004 - 06:19 PM

i got sent a text abut this about 12 hours ago...
just a few hours after it happened...

what a shock...

and like all psychos he gave the police little other choice than to kill him aswell... leaving us completley without answers...
just like phil hartmans wife.

fuck.

i mean was he a religeous, anti-music fuckwit, or a mark chapmanesqe loon...
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Posted 09 December 2004 - 06:52 PM

I heard that he was onstage yelling "You broke up Pantera!" or something when he shot him, so I think it was a Chapman-esque thing.

(Oddly enough, isn't Dec. 8 the anniversary of Lennon's murder?)
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Posted 09 December 2004 - 07:26 PM

Yeah. It's a senseless tragedy. Believe it or not, he lived only about 30 minutes away from me and I had partied at his house a couple of times. He was totally down-to-earth and extremely funny. The girl that I met him through is probably devastated, but (not surprisingly) I haven't been able to get ahold of her. First they lost the singer from drowning pool, with whom they were dear friends, and now this. Words just can't express the grief and despair felt througout the entire Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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Posted 09 December 2004 - 08:46 PM

i met him once at an instore thing, he was a really nice guy...

and that freakedout asshole shot him 5 times in the head...
what a fucking nutjob...

as a musician (not a very famous one), i find that shit really unsettling...
as a music fan i find it really upsetting...

how old was the looser with the gun?
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Posted 09 December 2004 - 09:06 PM

I believe he was 25. You mean ALL FIVE shots were in the head?! What a psycho!
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Posted 09 December 2004 - 10:26 PM

Who? blink.gif

"Dimebag?"
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Posted 09 December 2004 - 11:30 PM

Read the article. We read yours, the least you can do is read ours.
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Posted 10 December 2004 - 02:55 AM

Read it last night. That's wacky.
Not a huge Pantera fan myself, but Dimebag was a good thrash guitarist so it is a sad loss.
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Posted 10 December 2004 - 10:29 AM

what the fuck is the world coming to, you arent safe anywhere anymore and it is quite scary.
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Posted 12 December 2004 - 10:02 PM

exactly...

more and more people come back from service in the US military, completely fucked up....

hmmm... should i shoot my comanding oficer, the president, cheney, no...

i'll kill a mucician....


fucktard...

in accordance with every highschool that's blamed one of its masacres on a metal band... i would like to officially blam this assholes school...

AMERICA really needs to look into culling it's crazy redneck population...
they should all be drafted and sent overseas unarmed to a hostile location....

honestly...

no ones more passionate about music than i, but when my favorite band split up was i angry? no. did i go on a killing spree? no...
did i kill one of the former members preventing a reuinion? no?

KILL YOUR CRAZY GUN LOVING HICKS RIGHT NOW!!!

fuck it!

gather masses of people, purchase fire arms and bullet proof vests, and hunt crazy assholes for sport then blame my band HYPOID... i'll hapily take credit for it!!!!
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Posted 13 December 2004 - 03:24 AM

Word to the wise, Barend, Dime was a crazy gun-loving hick too. He was an example of the really nice, amazing guitarists who also happen to be CG-LHs.
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Posted 13 December 2004 - 10:43 AM

That terribly sucks, a good friend of mine wore a Pantera shirt to school after he heard about that incedent. I wonder why in the hell that cracked up guy wanted to do that anyway? I personally never liked Pantera either, I think I had that Cowboys from hell CD awhile back. But I didn't care much for it.
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Posted 13 December 2004 - 09:00 PM

if a gun crazy hick pics up a guitar and plays cool riffs instead of shooting people, i think they're exempt...

even that glen benton wanker from deicide...
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