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Rogaras

12-09-2004, 07:54 AM

RIP.... one of the most influencial Metal guitarists has been shot dead while performing with this band "damageplan" other band members were shot and killed their names are yet to be released

more info here

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1494653/20041209/damageplan.jhtml?headlines=true

cyberfret

12-09-2004, 08:22 AM

I just woke up and read the news. I live in Columbus Ohio, so I may very well have students that were there. Our thoughts are with the families of the 5 people that were killed and the others that were injured.

--Shawn

ibleedmarshall

12-09-2004, 09:45 AM

What's tragic to me is we may never find out WHY...

Bleed_4_Me

12-09-2004, 11:03 AM

I'm in total shock. Dime and Zakk Wylde were the reasons I pulled my guitar out of the closet! What a great loss to the Metal World! RIP Dimebag Darrell. :cry:

N2DeanEvo

12-09-2004, 12:03 PM

I'm speechless...I was in the lab doing work and I heard it on the radio. They didn't actually say it was Dime, just "a band member". When I checked the web I got a chill down my spine.

He will be sadly missed...a great loss for the 6-string world... :cry: :cry: :cry:

What the hell is going on with some people. Goddammit! :mad2: :mad2: :mad2:

N2DeanEvo

12-09-2004, 12:06 PM

What's tragic to me is we may never find out WHY...
WHY? WHY?

Because there are f***heads like Gale out there who just don't have anything better to do than cause suffering. I would never think that I would come to say sth like that for anyone, but I really don't have the slightest sympathy towards or desire to understand people like that...

popmusic_sux

12-09-2004, 12:08 PM

If I'm not mistaken, it happened exactly 24 years after John Lennon was killed by a crazed fan. The metal world is feeling that pain now.

FastRedPonyCar

12-09-2004, 02:12 PM

Wow this sucks. He was one of the most influential metal guitarists ever. I wan't really into his music but I always had respect for his talent and he was really on top of the metal world. :(

Here's the MSN page on it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6683479/?GT1=5936

headbanger4life

12-09-2004, 03:25 PM

wow this really sux pantera and damageplan were 1 of my favorite bands too.....now thats it for the bands, what are they without him? me & my friend are going to start this mornig thing to nite, well walk down the street of something hold candels and posters and stuff, see how many people join us. probably some of u should....... :cry:

elpea117

12-09-2004, 03:58 PM

wtf makes people do **** like that. I dont get it at all.....kill somebody, for god knows what the **** reason.........

NeoTrix

12-09-2004, 04:11 PM

This cant be true..... it is really sickens me crazy sick fans kill influential artists..... :cry: :cry: If I find the one who shot him, I'll do the same to him....but now he's gone also..... i hope he goes to hell...

NeoTrix

12-09-2004, 04:43 PM

I just want to thank to William Weber, who tried to save dimebag by CPR.... RIP: Dimebag. Rest in peace ...

Super><Sonny

12-09-2004, 04:48 PM

Hey guys, long time no see.

At first when I heard this at school from my friends I didn't beleive it at all, I thought it was some stupid rumor. Then all I heard was that, but everyone just said 'a band member'. I was hoping and praying that it wasn't Dimebag becase he is a God to me. Anyway, saw the bad news and I was almost crying, I can't beleive something like this could happen.

I also quit guitar but after listening to Coyboys From Hell after a really really long time, I'm determined to start playing again.

RIP Dimebag... you won't be forgotten.

popmusic_sux

12-09-2004, 05:25 PM

Good to see you again sonny, too bad it had to be under these circumstances...

GuitarMonky55

12-09-2004, 06:03 PM

i heard a blurb on the news this morning that there was a shooting and 5 people died but they didnt specify, then when i got out of school my mom told me that darrell abbot was killed......i found it hard to believe.

i should hope that all the guitar magazines put out some nice tribute issues to him next month

StarCraft

12-09-2004, 06:13 PM

damn....its hard to put nito words what i'm feeling right now....i guess its shock...but damn that sux soooooooooooooo much....

this is deeply just...disturbing...

craplog

12-09-2004, 09:18 PM

A god has died my friends, I would skip christmas just to see him one last time.

satch

12-09-2004, 09:29 PM

I am lost for words........he was a metal master
and the guitar world has lost a great one.
Dimebag will be missed......:-(

CaNaDiAN,Eh?

12-09-2004, 10:32 PM

R.I.P Dimebag Darrel.
The music world has truly lost a legend. :(

diron

12-10-2004, 01:26 AM

My goodness..

Shocking

Link maybe with information? So fourth..

ibleedmarshall

12-10-2004, 01:28 AM

My goodness..

Shocking

Link maybe with information? So fourth..

check the artists and bands section...

hotlixx

12-10-2004, 01:55 AM

I don't know what to say, Pantera was one of the most influential bands ever, and Dimebag Darrell was just so awesome, I couldn't believe what i heard when i first heard them, I can't believe he's dead, I'm gonna go sit and cry now, peace.

RIP Dimebag Darrell

BenBray

12-10-2004, 10:19 AM

I came back to these boards to 'share your pain' so to speak. He was a great guitarist whos life shouldnt have been cut short this early.

My thoughts are with his family and friends, and with all the guitarists that drew inspiration and love from his playing.

RIP Darrell Abbot.

zack

12-10-2004, 04:04 PM

This is the first really influential guitarist to die since i have picked up the guitar and the only one i have heard of dying onstage.....terrible way to go...

Dime, we salute you

WWD OLW

12-10-2004, 07:05 PM

but on the other hand he did die doing the thing he loved.

MadMattUK

12-10-2004, 07:10 PM

but on the other hand he did die doing the thing he loved.
yeah, died in battle.

I supposed thats a small positive that can be drawn from it. He was probably too submersed in his own music to realise what was going on or what happened before things went black.

HardRocKnox1031

12-10-2004, 07:49 PM

or all the drugs he took.
Dont get me wrong, i love his music and metal, just please check yourself into a rehaib instituion.
You know dimebag (the name) came from his weed conection. It was because he was too poor to buy to much so he would buy 10 dollars worth, so they started calling him Dimebag.

headbanger4life

12-10-2004, 11:23 PM

yea, u think about him dead, and its so hard to belive. sux 4 his bro too, watched him die....... :cry:.

Slash 88

12-11-2004, 03:08 AM

http://www.hi.is/~kristiy/muzik/dimebag.jpg

R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell

MadMattUK

12-11-2004, 12:42 PM

http://www.revnkevin.com/Dimebag.jpg

unbelievable! image attatchments :eek:

SPEEDFREEK24

12-11-2004, 04:03 PM

last night i sat up with my drummer toasting the memory of Dime. Revolution Is My Name has never been as sad a song as right now...
there isnt a single grieving soul that will soon forget dime's contribution to metal, truly a pioneer of "as heavy as heavy should be". dec 8th will forever be a solemn day, with now 2 shattering blows to music on it's head. but i know that somewhere, Dime is smiling. fiery Dean ML in hand, and a wall of blazing tone as his voice, dime is smiling.

MadMattUK

12-11-2004, 04:18 PM

ibleedmarshall

12-11-2004, 04:21 PM

good post. brought a tear to the eye.

Think i will watch the Pantera DVD tonight.

if I had my Pantera DVD here, I'd be watching it.. but sadly I brought it home over Thanksgiving when I was starting to clear out stuff for Xmas. Last night a friend and I downed some Blacktooth Grins in honor of Dime. This is one of the saddest times in metal history.

Reading some of the comments by guys like Zakk or even Phil (check out my ratbit posts) still chokes me up a little.

WWD OLW

12-11-2004, 10:53 PM

got any links to those ibm? im interested in what zakk and phil have got to say. yestersday i cranked cemetry gates, and by the time it came to the solo it had brought a tear to the eye. my bands going to cover that song, i will to my best to do it justice but im no dimebag darrell....... obvioulsy.

ibleedmarshall

12-12-2004, 02:54 AM

Jamie FT

12-12-2004, 08:17 AM

It's truely sad new, and too make it even worse philip said that pantera probably would've got back together! :( check out the interview on blabbermouth.net

telesgblues

12-12-2004, 03:24 PM

I was there in nyc when lennon got shot i lived across the river in nj then. I got there on the 2nd nite saw his blood fresh on the sidewalk I was 24 I thought everyones been tryin to tell me about this world and I always believed them, now I see this! just more proof of how and where we live on this earth. Like him or not isn't the issue here. Im so sorry it happened again and at a concert? jezzzz cant we have peace anywhere?

Guitar Slinger

12-14-2004, 10:35 PM

I remember the Lennon shooting very well! I was a NYPD Rookie back then. I transported Chapman to his "new home" in the pen where he'll rot!

There's always some looney tune running loose that should've been kept in a psychiatric hospital. City and state funding has seen fit to close the majority of these places. Some people are just plain nuts, some lose it from jealousy, others are fueled by a combination of twisted things which is a fatal combination of envy,psychosis and drugs/alcohol. The end result? TRAGEDY like this!

sweeppicker308

12-17-2004, 08:28 PM

what makes people do the things they do?
I heard on fox news this sic mofo had a mental disorder and thats the reason he shot dimebag but I think thats an excuse
its rediculous dimebag never hurt anybody he just wanted people to enjoy his music

Metallicka

12-18-2004, 01:50 PM

This is a link to the truth as told by two of the roadies at the event:

Link (http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~alfieii/pantera/roadie.html)

WWD OLW

12-19-2004, 04:20 AM

that really cleared the whole thing up, thanks man.

manwiththeaxe99

12-21-2004, 05:13 PM

i just found out about it yesterday and i thought i was goin to kill somebody; who would want to kill or even hurt a man that gave so much to music???? the man was a hero and will never be forgoten long live the memory of dimebag darrel!!!!!!

WWD OLW

12-22-2004, 02:45 AM

why did it take you so long to find out?

manwiththeaxe99

12-22-2004, 01:58 PM

well i dont watch the news and i was out of town went to my uncles and he didnt have a tv it was a little town in ohio not a lot of people to talk about it.

metal mania

12-24-2004, 04:40 PM

when i herd it i could not believe it RIP dimebag now you really are a god

unfy

12-24-2004, 09:25 PM

PrisonerofWarX

12-25-2004, 06:52 PM

I heard the morning after it happened, when Dime was the only confirmed victim.

I was absolutely in shock. I broke down and cried when I heard on the radio that Dime had been shot, and maybe Vinny (thank God he wasn't), too.

I was mourning the death of John Lennon the day before, and it sent a chill down my spine to hear that it had happened again, and so close to home (I live fourty miles from Columbus).

Here's a post I made at a couple of other forums I post at that really seemed to capture many people's thoughts:

"One shred of good news is that Dimebag was the only member of the band who was hurt.

It weird, though, because I just heard a Damageplan song on the radio, and I couldn't help breaking into tears -- and they were as much tears of anger as they were tears of grief.
I'm extremely angry that somebody would dig to the very depths of humanity to kill someone over ****ing music.

I was talking with some people who had friends who knew the shooter (I live about an hour from Marysville, Ohio, Hale's hometown), and they said that it is suspected that Hale thought Pantera stole some lyrics that we wrote and used them in one of their songs. This is obviously false, but apparently this dude was a discharged Marine and had some emotional problems.
...So he shot Dime over some ****in' lyrics that never exsisted.

...I can't even think about it anymore without feeling a fireball of rage ignite in my stomach. This **** needs to be stopped before anymore musicians are senselessly killed.

First Lennon, then Dime. It doesn't matter how many damn years they are apart, who the ****'s next? David Lee Roth and George Harrison have both been attacked in their homes -- their ****ing homes!

Is this what society is -- killers and attackers and loathers? I think it's a question more people need to start asking, and something, I don't know what, but for God's sake something needs to be done."

metal mania

12-26-2004, 01:48 PM

If it's any consolation to you, I'm sure Dimebag is in hell, too.
WHAT??????

MadMattUK

12-29-2004, 12:19 PM

http://mfile.akamai.com/2838/wmv/cablev.download.akamai.com/2838/fuse/uranium/2004-12-28_anselmo_hi.asx

Emotional video from phil

moto_psycho

12-29-2004, 04:35 PM

If it's any consolation to you, I'm sure Dimebag is in hell, too.
Dimebag was an Athiest but it does n't mean he's gone to "hell" if their is one anyway.

unfy

12-29-2004, 07:53 PM

Dimebag was an Athiest but it does n't mean he's gone to "hell" if their is one anyway.

I'm no fundie, but according to popular dogma, he would.

Hawk

12-29-2004, 08:02 PM

Most people who follow popular Dogma are going to hell according to their own dogma, Religion is Bull****.

Jason9x19

12-29-2004, 09:13 PM

Anybody else wondering if Phil is faking it to cover his a55?

WWD OLW

12-30-2004, 01:34 AM

there is no doubt that phil is indirectly to blame for dimes death but im pretty sure that his feelings would be genuine, being in a band with someone for that long, your bound to be shocked when this happens. dime said that he loved phil like a brother and apparently phil said the same, even after all the **** talking from both sides (mainly phils) so it would definately be pretty sad for phil.

GnRockGod79

12-30-2004, 11:27 PM

If I'm not mistaken, it happened exactly 24 years after John Lennon was killed by a crazed fan. The metal world is feeling that pain now.
thats crazy. that gunner shall rot in hell for eternity. what is this world coming to?! :mad: :(

Metallicka

12-31-2004, 07:12 AM

I just read this on RR.tk and thought I'd pass it on as it's a very good read:

Edit: Ok, it's too long so I'll linkipoos you instead:

Near the bottom of the page the Seb Bach thing (http://www.nobitching.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=4760&start=270)

manwiththeaxe99

12-31-2004, 08:49 PM

If it's any consolation to you, I'm sure Dimebag is in hell, too.
what the hell is that for the man is an accoumplished guitarist more than every person on this site unless dave mustane is on here and u talk sh** like that whats wronge with u???