At Least 5 Dead, 2 Wounded In Nightclub Shooting (Including "Dimebag Darrell" (formerly of Pantera.

NBC 4 news ^ | 12/09/2004 | Unknown

[Homer1]

At Least 3 Dead, 4 Wounded In Nightclub Shooting Witnesses: Alleged Gunman Went Onto Stage, Fired Shots

POSTED: 10:32 pm EST December 8, 2004 UPDATED: 11:36 pm EST December 8, 2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At least three people died and four others were wounded after a shooting at a Columbus nightclub on Wednesday night, NBC 4 reported.

The shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at Alrosa Villa, located at 5055 Sinclair Road.

Two members of the heavy metal band Damageplan were reportedly shot and killed, including Dimebag Darrell, formerly with the band Pantera, NBC 4's David Wayne reported. The alleged gunman also died at the scene, Wayne reported.

Shortly after the band began playing its first song, a man reportedly ran onto the stage and began shooting, according to a witness who identified himself as Sean. Some members of the audience reportedly thought the man running onto the stage with a gun was part of the band's act, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported.

Witnesses said that several shots were fired at the band. Witnesses said that a bouncer at the club tackled the alleged gunman before that person was shot and killed. It was unclear as to whom shot the alleged gunman.

Alrosa Villa is a popular north Columbus nightspot for young adults, featuring rock and heavy metal bands, NBC 4 reported.

According to the band's Web site, Damageplan was touring nationally. It performed in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday night and had a concert scheduled in Flint, Mich., on Thursday.

Damageplan featured former Pantera artists Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. The pair were joined by vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bobzilla, according to their Web site.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Back On Earth by Ozzy Osbourne

I have fallen from grace, and my ashes are scattered
No longer of passion and flesh
My flame is alive, though my wings have been shattered
They lay my body to rest

My spirit is breathing, my senses are pure
Like reincarnation, my soul will endure

Back on earth...
The spirit, it never lets go

Like fountains of sorrow, the faces are crying
I'm witnessing all of their pain
Death is so final, for only the living
The spirit will always remain

Bury me deep, just to cover my sins
My soul is redeemed, as the journey begins

Back on earth (you feel me)
Back on earth (reveal me)
Back on earth, the spirit it never lets go

Another dimension, a river of life
I'm twisting, I'm turning, my soul is in flight

Back on earth (you feel me)
Back on earth (reveal me)
Back on earth (still breathing)
Back on earth (reliving)

[bonfire]

Band moms get to go straight to heaven!

[MissAmericanPie]

That's what every kid in the door calls me, "Mom". Thanks for the compliment.

[KoRn]

I don't understand holding DD responsible for the breakup. I've always understood it to be Phil's(the singer) fault. Even if it was DD's fault it doesn't by any means justify the murder that went on.

By the way, lesser known in all of this is what kind of hero the policeman was that arrived on the scene. By all accounts he saved allot of people, including Vinnie by dropping the guy when he did.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

slayer RULES!

[MeekOneGOP]

Dime Bag, was a good friend to my son, Dime would always babysit the kids, he was a fine man. My son was so upset he didn't get to sleep until 6am.

The kids in my son's band are working up a tribute song for Dime in the other room now. About how he listened, cared, shared his home and his time, and was there for them.

Very nice.

May he rest in peace .....

[L.N. Smithee]

Vince Neil of Motley Crue killed Razzle from Hanoi Rocks driving drunk.

Nice try. Unless you are alleging Neil deliberately crashed his car in a manner to make sure that Razzle died, it doesn't even come close to the level of violence we are talking about. Get real.

There are bad apples in all walks of life and every profession. You cant name a profession or career that doesn't have a killer of some sort in it.

As I said before, rock and roll has always celebrated rebellion, but gangsta rap celebrates violence. The music itself sprung from the gang culture that swallowed thousands of inner-city youths and young adults.

[L.N. Smithee]

Well, I am not hip enough to even know a Pantera song or any music by the deceased here on the thread... I seem to have missed a few bands between Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Matchbox 20.

There isn't a radio station in the Bay Area that would play Pantera since the oldest rock station in the Bay, San Jose's KSJO, gave up after 35 years and went...Mexican. Four of the strongest signals on the FM dial within the city of San Francisco are for Mexican-formatted stations. It's beginning to sound like radio in Los Angeles -- you surf the dial, and you get that squeezebox music. The newest one is nicknaming itself "La Raza." As Charlie Brown used to say, "AAUGH!"

I have never heard a Pantera song to my knowledge. I have seen Dimebag in countless guitar mags, and figured he was a pretty durn good player. I hated Eddie Van Halen was I was a kid because he stole away Valerie Bertinelli from me (I know, but I was fifteen!) Being more used to bands like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Journey, Styx, Queen, Steve Miller and Kansas (I still enjoy all of them), I thought Van Halen was a loud, noisy mess. Then I started reading about what a wizard Eddie was, and gave VH a second listen. Once I got past David Lee Roth's self-indulgent wailing, I realized how masterful Eddie was. And I figured that he couldn't be too bad of a guy if Valerie stayed married to him all that time.

I'd like to think I'm no shrivelled old prune, yet I'm a little too straight to like Alice Cooper either, though I don't fear him. MM truly turns my stomach the way I think a demon would, if I cognitively believed such things walk the earth :~\

Manson is a joke. Every few years, a band rides a wave of controversy about its image and shocking live show that lifts it to heights they never would have reached based only on their talent. KISS (yes, that KISS), Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 2 Live Crew, Marilyn Manson. The latest on that list: T.A.T.U., the pouting Russian chicks who made out together in their video.

[reaganaut]

The latest on that list: T.A.T.U., the pouting Russian chicks who made out together in their video.

Didn't they disappear after it came out that they were really straight, and the lesbian thing was just a gimmick?

[ThinkPlease]

Tee hee, you're only as old as you feel! Seriously, I'm gonna have to get out that old VHS tape of "Operation: Mindcrime" with its song "I Don't Believe in Love"...their musical production about the assassin. The new generation that was raised on RAP doesn't know what it's missing!

On the current tour, they are doing Mindcrime in it's entirety again! They are playing my area in January, and we already have our tickets!

[MizzouTigerRepublican]

So rebellion as dying from drug overdoses or suicide is not as bad as gang violence... I don't see the logic there.

Drugs have caused more deaths and problems in this country than gang violence ever has. I am not condoning anything that gangs or rap music glorifies but to say it worse than Rock music is sadly mistaken.

I like Rock and Roll myself and do not listen to Rap. Each generation has its own form of rebellious music they latch on to. Rap is this generations form of Rock and Roll.

[Chemist_Geek]

I have. It's an invalid point. Read the Bible, especially the Old Testament.

[flutters]

A nightmarish scene - Witnesses describe grisly details of gunman’s attack at club

[Rytwyng]

...it makes sense for the bar owner to remind his patrons that weapons are not allowed, just to limit his liability...[this] upset many a freeper, who think their right to be armed trumps a private property owners right to keep armed people off his property

Well... the argument could be made, that a bar is a quasi-public place and that the bar owner has no right to discriminate in certain ways. The absolutist propertarian view would allow you to racially discriminate, too, yet the laws don't allow that.

Frankly, I respect your property rights. Post all the "no-guns" signs that you want. You just won't get my business.

Of course it's moot here in California, because nobody has any rights here. Well, at least, citizens don't.

[Delbert]

Police Investigate Heavy Metal Murderer

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141121,00.html

Abbott, 38, left Pantera with his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, to form the band Damageplan, which had just begun its first song at the club Alrosa Villa on Wednesday night when Gale dodged two band members, grabbed Darrell Abbott and shot him at least five times in the head.

"He grabbed Dimebag with one hand and shot him with the other," said Kevin Minerd, among the 500 people packed into the smoke-filled nightclub to see Abbott's new band.

I hope Nathan Gale is roasting slowly on a pitchfork in the depths of hell. Piss Be Upon Him.

[Ciexyz]

On their current tour, they (Queensryche) are doing "Mindcrime" in its entirely again!

Wow! "Let's do the Timewarp again!"

I have the Mindcrime live concert on VHS from the 80's. It was a special box edition. I really must get that thing out and play it again.

[Ciexyz]

MINDCRIME

The lyrics say "Operation Mindcrime." Anyway, I'm going to have to dust off the video jacket and pop that VHS into my video recorder. (This is one reason that VHS machines will never go away, too many people have old, old tapes from the early 80's, like me.)

[Ciexyz]

...the shooter yelled something about DD being responsible for Pantera breaking up before shooting.

The POS sounds like he wanted to live in infamy. Like with "Selena", the media rushes to make a movie about your crime. Like with John Lennon's death, the perp's name will unfortunately always be remembered (which is why I refuse to type that name here, like some of the people on this thread have been doing. "POS" is a good generic term for such a creep.)

[hobbes1]

Yes a Manowar reference...

He broke the laws of the elders
So they blocked out his eye,
Took his land and fortune,
Left him to die

Bound on the shoreline,
Left for the tide,
Seizes life, blood leaving...
Circling lower, the vultures fly

His bones may be broken
But the spirit can't die
And the Gods see his anguish
And give him a sign

From the floor of the ocean
The ship of the lost souls rise
And they take him.....
where no one sleeps
while the undead cry,
Where no one sleeps while the undead cry...

And in the world above
The elders sing,
On his land they live...
Let death bell ring

Narration:
He was met at the gate of Hades
By the Guardian of the Lost Souls,
The Keeper of the Unavenged
And He did say to him:
Let you not pass,
Abaddon....
Return to the world
From whence ye came
And seek payment
Not only for thy known anguish
But vindicate the souls
Of the Unavenged

And they placed in his hands
A sword
Made for him
Called: Vengeance
Forged in brimstone
And tempered
By the woeful tears of the Unavenged

And to carry him up on his journey
Back to the upper world
They brought forth
Their Demon horse
Called: Black Death
A grim steed
So fiercely might
And black in colour
That he could stand as one: Darkness...
Save from his burning eyes
of grims and fire

And on that night
They rode up from Hell
The pounding of his hooves
Did clap like thunder !

Chorus:
Burning, death, destruction
Raping the daughters and wives
In blood I take my payment
In foul with their lives

No one can escape me
On Black Death I ride
When kissed by the sword of Vengeance
Your head lays there by your side
I take the lives of all that I once knew
The torn flesh of a slow death waits for you

Chorus:
Burning, death, destruction
Raping the daughters and wives
In blood I take my payment
In foul with their lives

I spare not land or servants
My wake is slow death and...
I take their wives and daughters
They stand there watching, watching
Hoping to get my life
But when I'm through they know they must pay

Chorus:
Burning, death, destruction
Raping the daughters and wives
In blood I take my payment
In foul with they lives
With their lives
With their lives
With their lives 

[hobbes1]

Ah yes, the Headbanger's Ball, those were the days.

Dave Mustaine will be hosting Headbangers Ball tonight, A Tribute to Dimebag Darrel.