This is totally out of this lists content, but some of you that know me know I was a musician for most of my life, and on Dec.8th of 2004 my dear friend and fellow musician and drinking buddy .Dimebag was murdered on stage,3 others were also murdered and the gunman committed suicide in front of a couple thousand people, leaving a total of 5 dead...I had quit drinking and playing music a couple of years ago and lost most of my music contacts and would only run into him here and there in dallas..There was never any worship of satan involved ,just alot of drugs,alcohol and selfish sin.
I made a decision at the door of life and death to walk away from all these people, at first I wasnt sure I was doing the right thing, for i missed that lifestyle, and then this tragedy happened, then i knew I was being guided by'to GOD. and that It was important to LOVE and Worship and put GOD above all else and to prepare myself for salvation and to be watchful and in proper prayer, Thus i found Orthodox.......May God have mercy on his soul and the others killed this evil night.
Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, who was shot dead while on stage on Wednesday Dec 8th 2004 at the age of age 38, He was the lead guitarist of the hard rock bands Pantera and currently in Damageplan, and one of the most influential musicians on the heavy metal scene.
Beefy, bearded and hairy with an armful of tattoos, Abbott was the epitome of the hard-living, heavy-drinking rocker. But he had an undeniable talent, and when Pantera, his first band, hit the big time in the early 1990s, his frenetic, ear-shattering guitar riffs re-defined the heavy rock sound.
Pantera's music was uncompromising and uncommercial; for many years the band received hardly any airplay on mainstream radio or MTV, because, explained Abbott, "we were just that one notch too heavy". Nevertheless, Pantera attracted a huge fan base with their intense and brutal sound, best represented in their menacing sixth album, Vulgar Display of Power (1992). They followed this up with Far Beyond Driven (1994), which topped the Billboard charts in America. Pantera went on to tour the world, headlining at Ozzfest and winning a Grammy award.
Other members of the band included Abbott's brother, Vinnie Paul, on drums, and vocalist Phil Anselmo, who screamed his way through songs such as Cemetery Gates, Mouth For War with wild abandon. But by 2000 a rift had grown up between the Abbott brothers and Anselmo, who was attempting to modify his behaviour after a near-fatal heroin overdose in 1996. "There was never a point," Anselmo said of Abbott, "when he would not get drunk. Which was pretty much every day."
Pantera finally collapsed in 2001, and two years later Abbott and his brother formed Damageplan, releasing their first album, New Found Power, in February this year. It had been created in Abbott's home studio, amid typical high jinks. "I had to replace six doors and eight feet of Sheetrock in the bathroom because we were partying nonstop and causing trouble and breaking doors and walls," Abbott confessed. "Plenty of my guitars went down in flames. We smashed 'em and taped fireworks to 'em and lit them up."
Darrell Lance Abbott was born on August 20 1966 in Dallas, Texas, the son of Jerry Abbott, a country and western songwriter and producer. From an early age, Darrell would watch his father at work in the studio.
He was soon drawn, however, to the grinding guitar sound of heavy metal bands such as Kiss and Van Halen, and took up drumming, switching to guitar at the age of 12. He immediately took to the instrument (while his brother, Vinnie, had a talent for the drums). After winning several guitar competitions, he applied for a job in Megadeth, but was turned down when he insisted that the band hire his brother.
In the early 1990s the Abbott brothers, calling themselves Diamond Darrell and Vinnie Paul, co-founded Pantera, but the band did not find its true voice until Anselmo joined in 1988. Abbott then took to calling himself "Dimebag" Darrell (a name associated with the cost of a bag of marijuana).
Despite his reputation for crazed excess, Abbott had a gentler side and was described by his manager as "sweet and caring". He marketed his own range of guitars and guitar accessories, and also owned a strip club in Dallas.
Abbott died when a rampaging gunman climbed on stage during a Damageplan gig at a nightclub at Columbus, Ohio.
Dimebag Darrell, guitarist for Damageplan and Pantera, was killed during this shooting spree at a Columbus, Ohio, nightclub Wednesday night. He was 38.
Darrell, real name Darrell Abbott, was among the five people killed during the incident. Also dead are the gunman, 25-year-old Nathan Gale of nearby Marysville, Ohio; Damageplan bodyguard Jeff Thompson, 40; fan Nathan Bray, 23; and Erin Halk, 29, who worked at the club. Gale also wounded three people.
God grant rest and forgiveness to your friend and to all those souls who left the world that terrible day, including Gale.