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Title: Dimebag Darrell....dead.
Post by: CHIZZY on December 09, 2004, 05:16:39 AM: COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNN) -- A gunman stormed the stage during a heavy metal concert in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday night, firing at the band and audience and killing four people before a police officer shot and killed him, according to police.

One of the dead was guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. The gunman also wounded two people.

The man was "targeting members in the band," Columbus police Sgt. Brent Mull said.

Before the gunman was shot, police said, he grabbed a hostage and fired into the crowd. It was not clear what happened to the hostage.

The attack came shortly after the band, Damageplan, began its performance at the Alrosa Villa nightclub on Columbus\' north end.

One of the wounded is in critical condition, and the other is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Two others were injured in the incident and treated at the scene, although the nature of their injuries was not clear.

According to witnesses, the gunman initially shot the band\'s guitarist, Dimebag Darrell.

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

Police were notified of the shooting around 10:18 p.m., Mull said. A uniformed police officer who was near the scene slipped into the venue from a back entrance, confronted the gunman during the rampage and killed him.

"If not for the officer who showed up, there would have been more dead," Mull said.

Witnesses described the shooter as a heavyset man, wearing a Columbus Blue Jackets hockey jersey.

Police roped off a huge area of the nightclub\'s parking lot, as 60 detectives questioned hundreds of witnesses. Police brought in buses to keep the witnesses warm as they waited to be questioned.

Calvin Bota said he saw the shooting from the mosh pit right in front of the stage, shortly after the band began playing.

"Somebody came -- I don\'t know where they came from, out of the audience or whatnot -- but they come onto (the) stage and ... he shot the guitarist at first, fired a couple of other shots and then he hid behind the stage a little bit," Bota told CNN affiliate WSYX.

"Everybody started scattering, you know, there\'s mayhem everywhere. And then a police officer came into the building, you know, came in professional with his gun raised and then he proceeded to shoot the guy."

Gerald Caudill said the gunman shot the guitarist at least four times.

"I was up close to the stage and I just saw some guy run up on the side of the stage and I heard some shots and I saw (drummer) Vinnie (Paul) fall and somebody jumped on top of Vinnie, and the guy just stayed around the stage and started shooting other people," Caudill said.

"I saw wounded people all over the place, out in the parking lot, inside," he said. "It just didn\'t sound like gunshots or anything, it didn\'t occur to me that something like that was happening."

HOLY CRAP!
Title: Dimebag Darrell....dead.
Post by: Soul Reaver on December 09, 2004, 05:25:56 AM: You didn\'t have to make two topics.

:)
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Post by: GmanJoe on December 09, 2004, 05:31:02 AM: Yeah, heard it on the radio this morning. Crazy shit.
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Post by: CHIZZY on December 09, 2004, 05:32:49 AM: Hmmm... don\'t know what happened here....

BAH_LETED!
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Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on December 09, 2004, 05:37:19 AM: link?
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Post by: CHIZZY on December 09, 2004, 06:28:03 AM: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/09/nightclub.shooting/index.html
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Post by: nO-One on December 09, 2004, 06:33:06 AM: holy crap I just saw this earlier, both him and Vinnie Paul. Jebus Cripes this sucks bad.
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Post by: Bobs_Hardware on December 09, 2004, 06:42:03 AM: ...:(
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Post by: Luke on December 09, 2004, 07:07:33 AM: This totally ruined my day.
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Post by: Cyrus on December 09, 2004, 07:38:21 AM: He didnt get Vinnie Paul only DimeBag...

Let take a step back can anyone see the trickle down effects of this.

This was a small venue wich is one of the best places to see a band like this. So now there is going to have to be real security not some buffed out 20 kid are the smaller venue going to be able to avoid this kind of secuirty. SO many more effects will come out of this.
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Post by: Joker on December 09, 2004, 08:54:14 AM: never heard of Dimebag until bobs_hardware schooled me about him.

The man was a legend, a very sad day indeed. :(
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Post by: Titan on December 09, 2004, 10:15:35 AM: What a prick. What was that shooter\'s malfunction? I didn\'t know who Dimebag was but Im sure if I listened to their music, I might recognize him or his band.
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Post by: Titan on December 09, 2004, 10:16:40 AM: Chizzy sucks at the internet ;)
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Post by: CHIZZY on December 09, 2004, 10:29:12 AM: ihonestlry don no whahappind.
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Post by: Evi on December 09, 2004, 10:37:44 AM: Quote
Chizzy sucks at the internet ;)
Getting it right +2
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Post by: nO-One on December 09, 2004, 10:51:50 AM: there I merged them.

Good thing about Vinnie making it, but this still sucks bad.
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Post by: Halberto on December 09, 2004, 11:11:03 AM: They\'re saying the guy shot him because Pantera broke up.
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Post by: nO-One on December 09, 2004, 11:19:39 AM: yeah, and to get them back together the best way was to kill the guitarist and founding member
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Post by: Bozco on December 09, 2004, 11:50:37 AM: Holy hell, I wasn\'t that far from there. I went up to campus like 30 minutes after but not past Alrosa. I didn\'t even hear anything about it till this morning. This is really sad though, how can something like this happen? This isn\'t very Columbus like either.......this just scares me.

"Mull did not identify the remaining fatality. Abbott was the only band member confirmed dead "at this point," he said."

Someone said he shot at multiple band members. When are we going to find out for sure if any others might have been part of the 4 killed or injured.
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Post by: Kurt Angle on December 09, 2004, 01:27:57 PM: Never heard of him but still a sad way to go.
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Post by: clips on December 09, 2004, 06:15:28 PM: not familiar at all with this band..i thought s**t like this only goes down at rap concerts...;)..
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on December 09, 2004, 06:21:19 PM: Cowboys from hell was their best album IMO.

Wish we could kill all these pus**** that shoot people. and for what? cuz a band broke up or just because he disliked him? hope he burns in hell

Anyway..RIP Dimebag Darrell and Bob Zilla i think also died (actually dont know who he is)
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Post by: Skyrider666 on December 09, 2004, 06:40:08 PM: No good at all. :(
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Post by: Lord Nicon on December 09, 2004, 07:21:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Viper_Fujax
Cowboys from hell was their best album IMO.

Awesome song.

Never really a huge Pantera fan but i can at least give them that^.
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Post by: Titan on December 09, 2004, 07:34:23 PM: I was listening to a New York rock station on my way to work and they were talking about this. Very sad indeed.
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Post by: Kimahri on December 10, 2004, 01:30:44 AM: RIP
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Post by: CHIZZY on December 10, 2004, 05:26:40 AM: Quote
Originally posted by clips
not familiar at all with this band..i thought s**t like this only goes down at rap concerts...;)..

It\'s still the black man\'s fault. Stupid white kids, trying to emulate their black heroes...50 cent, 2pac, George Washington Carver....I heard that fat guy who did this had a gangsta rap band and was conducting experiments on thousands of uses for the peanut. Punk-ass bitch.

;) j/k
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Post by: Bobs_Hardware on December 10, 2004, 07:10:53 AM: Far Beyond Driven was Pantera\'s best album.

SLAUGHTERED!!!!!
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Post by: Ashford on December 10, 2004, 09:10:42 AM: Stupid, white people...
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Post by: Coredweller on December 10, 2004, 10:45:42 AM: It\'s interesting that so many people have never heard of Pantera, and will only find out about them when something like this happens. Their album sales will probably increase dramatically.

I like the album "Far Beyond Driven" and I have always preferred their version of "Planet Caravan" to the Sabbath version.
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Post by: CHIZZY on December 10, 2004, 12:23:03 PM: That guy had his own line of guitars, distortion & wah-wah pedals... I can imagine how the companies making that stuff will try to cash in on this. I can\'t believe he got shot 5 times in the head!!!!
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Post by: Titan on December 10, 2004, 02:40:18 PM: More

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/storymain.jsp?number=1

The guy was said by his friends that he was cuckoo. He said Pantera stole his lyrics. What a loon.
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Post by: Lord Nicon on December 10, 2004, 03:29:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by CHIZZY
That guy had his own line of guitars, distortion & wah-wah pedals... I can imagine how the companies making that stuff will try to cash in on this. I can\'t believe he got shot 5 times in the head!!!!

5 times!?

Damn.

Thats worse than the damn BET awards. heh.

Talk about messed up.
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Post by: Bobs_Hardware on December 10, 2004, 05:03:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Coredweller
I like the album "Far Beyond Driven" and I have always preferred their version of "Planet Caravan" to the Sabbath version.

They also did a superior version of Electric Funeral, IMO, on the Nativity in Black albums.

I had always had hope that the band would get back together, or at least do something together again at some point in the future.. this is so sad. :(
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Post by: Zolar on December 10, 2004, 09:45:58 PM: That\'s sad. I was hoping Pantera would get back together just like Slayer did. I picked up Slayer\'s Still Raining DVD, it\'s excellent.
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Post by: nO-One on December 11, 2004, 10:39:04 AM: Slayer never broke up
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Post by: Titan on December 11, 2004, 07:43:57 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Zolar
That\'s sad. I was hoping Pantera would get back together just like Slayer did. I picked up Slayer\'s Still Raining DVD, it\'s excellent.

Quote
Originally posted by nO-One
Slayer never broke up

Owned :)
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Post by: Zolar on December 12, 2004, 09:15:29 AM: Yeah, Lombardo left to form his own band Grip INC. Don\'t you remember. Slayer was never the same without Lombardo-Drummer. Every other drummer was not up to par-shitty!
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Post by: Zolar on December 12, 2004, 09:22:39 AM: Without David Lombardo, Slayer broke up as far as I\'m concerned. They never sounded the same with just an average drummer. Listen to Rein in Blood and then listen to God Hates us All. There\'s no comparison.
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Post by: Titan on December 12, 2004, 04:31:28 PM: Just because one person leaves, doens\'t mean the band broke up. Did Blink 182 break up after Adam killed himself?
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Post by: nO-One on December 12, 2004, 05:00:58 PM: Paul Bostaph is bad ass, and Lombardo hasn\'t rejoined the band, just finished a tour with them and cd that\'s about it officially.