OT - Guitarist Killed on Stage last night

rh · Post by rh » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:44 am

Former Pantera Guitarist Killed on Stage

By JAY COHEN, Associated Press Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A gunman charged onstage at a packed nightclub and opened fire on the band and 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.

full story:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... b_shooting

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:51 am

That's sick. But I have to say, I'm surprised that type of thing hasn't happened more often at concerts and sporting events.

Will O'Ban

Father Emmet · Post by **Father Emmet** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:05 am

Time Warner renamed him "Diamond" Darrell for their CDs. "Dimebag" was much more appropriate I think.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:10 am

Terrible affair.

Mind you I've died a few times meself on various stages.......,

Slan,
D. :roll:

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:29 am

I was once playing guitar in a blues club in Melbourne when a guy pulled a handgun and fired a couple of shots. He didn't hurt anybody, fortunately.

Somehow the bouncers managed to evict him without injury to themselves or him—maybe he made a run for it. Anyway, he could be heard departing firing the occasional shot as he went off down the street. Very scarey. I have no idea whether or not the police apprehended him; the club didn't have a great reputation and I'm not sure they'd have taken a report seriously.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:10 pm

Wombat wrote:I was once playing guitar in a blues club in Melbourne when a guy pulled a handgun and fired a couple of shots. He didn't hurt anybody, fortunately.

Somehow the bouncers managed to evict him without injury to themselves or him—maybe he made a run for it. Anyway, he could be heard departing firing the occasional shot as he went off down the street. Very scarey. I have no idea whether or not the police apprehended him; the club didn't have a great reputation and I'm not sure they'd have taken a report seriously.

I thought guns were outlawed down under.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:20 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:
Wombat wrote:I was once playing guitar in a blues club in Melbourne when a guy pulled a handgun and fired a couple of shots. He didn't hurt anybody, fortunately.

Somehow the bouncers managed to evict him without injury to themselves or him—maybe he made a run for it. Anyway, he could be heard departing firing the occasional shot as he went off down the street. Very scarey. I have no idea whether or not the police apprehended him; the club didn't have a great reputation and I'm not sure they'd have taken a report seriously.
I thought guns were outlawed down under.

People who carry guns into Clubs are not usually worried about the legality of it all!

Slan,
D.

Lost-in-North-Dakota · Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:30 pm

Hey...the guy was only exercising his 2nd Amendment rights, right?

Jay

ausdag · Post by **ausdag** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:12 pm

We don't have amendments down here. That's why our wonderful leader does what he wants to, when he wants to. If we the public try to do the same, he introduces a 'levy' on the activity.
DavidG

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:33 pm

ausdag wrote:We don't have amendments down here. That's why our wonderful leader does what he wants to, when he wants to. If we the public try to do the same, he introduces a 'levy' on the activity.
DavidG

Sound familiar to any of you people from the states?

Will O'Ban

Skyclad01 · Post by **Skyclad01** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:02 pm

R.I.P. Dimebag. He will be sadly missed. \m/

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:12 am

Bummer.

Ole D. Darrell was a fine guitar player.

Heavy metal is too easy a target for stereotyping and p*ss-taking. Some of those guys can play so well I could almost shoot them myself out of jealousy (poor-taste joke).

Dimebag, Jerry Cantrell and some of the other metal/grunge gitboxers revived my interest in playing guitar after the 80s depressed me so much that I stowed my SG in a cupboard.

Pantera were great, and Darrell was a real virtuoso. Respec'.

Jeff Stallard · Post by **Jeff Stallard** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:22 am

I live about 5 miles from the club where this happened. I've never been in there, but I've driven by it often. I'm not too surprised that this happened. It sucks of course, but back in my younger years I went to plenty of metal shows, and while every secial event has a certain percentage of freaks, those shows had a much higher percentage.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:20 am

Jeff Stallard wrote:I live about 5 miles from the club where this happened. I've never been in there, but I've driven by it often. I'm not too surprised that this happened. It sucks of course, but back in my younger years I went to plenty of metal shows, and while every secial event has a certain percentage of freaks, those shows had a much higher percentage.

I agree with Buddhu that Pantera were pretty talented. It's very sad to lose a musician and a group of audience members regardless of talent.

I honestly don't think the heavy metal connection is really all that pertinent. I've made most of my living getting up on stage to play or lecture since my mid teens. I'm aware whenever I reflect on it that there is a danger that someone will run amok on each occasion I do it. Despite my earlier story of a club shooting, I've heard more horror stories from universities than the music world. By that I mean teachers stalked and harrassed, death threats, students opening fire in class, students setting fire to themselves on down to less harrowing but still disturbing occurrences. If these haven't happened in my classes, they've happened at places I've taught and to people I know. As a teacher, you quickly learn that in every hundred students there are several nutters some of whom are dangerous. Obviously you can't do your job if you think about that constantly while you are doing it but you need to be a bit careful and to take precautions. I don't regard gigging as more dangerous than lecturing—both have an emotional dimension that can have an unpreditable effect on someone who is seriously disturbed.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:56 am

Dimebag was shot several times close range by Nathan Gale.

A clip from the Pantera.com website:

People who had known the 25-year-old Gale in his hometown of Marysville described him yesterday as an unstable man who once asserted that the Abbott brothers' former band, PANTERA, had stolen his song lyrics.