man...what a horrible day this was last year. it was farking early in the morning and i was browsing Fark (as usual) and read the story. needless to say, i was pretty saddened by the news for weeks. the first few shows i went to after his death, it was scary imagining what it would've been like to be there.

he was a great and influential guitarist for aspiring metal musicians everywhere...by all accounts, he was a genuinely good person as well...giving fans everything they asked for and making them feel as though they were all family.

that was a sad day for metalheads everywhere.

RIP Dime

dstanley

Nope. I'll second the cockpunch option and add sterilization (voluntary or not). Gotta get rid of the "asshat" gene somehow.

I don't remember where I was, and to the best of my memory I've never heard any of his work, but I was shocked and saddened that a musician was shot at a concert. I feel the same way about anyone getting killed, but as a guitarist, it seemed to take a greater toll on me for some reason.

Making snide, cynical comments about such a well-liked benevolent guy is pathetic. Just remember that you'll never inspire millions and no one will care when you die.

Billy the Kidd: I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee...

Where was I? I was working at a radio station in Columbus, Ohio when I got a call saying that there was something going on at the Alrosa Villa and there was at least 20 police cars there. We turned on the police scanners and we are hearing calls going out for back up because of a shooting. I heard it all unfold on the police scanners and on all the TV stations live as it happened. We found out who was playing there that night, and when we were hearing that members of Damageplan was shot and killed, we knew how bad it was. It was news around here for days, and officer Niggemeyer is a hero because it could have been worse!

I was on my lunch break from work, listening to Cemetary Gates. And then I got the news. I couldn't believe it.

Two nights later I saw Sevendust in concert. They dedicated Angel's Son to Dimebag. It was one of the most emotional moments I ever saw in a show. Amazing.

squishydrew: Two nights later I saw Sevendust in concert. They dedicated Angel's Son to Dimebag. It was one of the most emotional moments I ever saw in a show. Amazing.

I saw Sevendust about two weeks later and played walk by pantera. It really is a shame that he is gone. amazing its been a year already

Huge Dime fan here. Still not over his death. Still can't believe it.

Had a close encounter with Dime once. Saw him at Red Lobster in Dallas. Swear, it was him. He was pretty hard to miss sitting in there with his posse. Kinda' surreal actually.

i didnt find out until around mid-morning, being a student and had classes. my friends and i that night stayed up late watching pantera concert videos in his memory. the local heavy rock radio station out here (107.3 WAAF) does a concert every year called the Indoor Beach Party right at the begining of april. Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society played, and there was a Dimebag tribute before they went on, and Vinnie Paul came out to play on a couple Pantera songs with Zakk. it was a very kickass display, and the closest thing to seeing pantera live as i could probably get due to getting into metal late in my years..(haha....im still 19 almost 20, and im talking about late in my life...)

/RIP
//hates people who rag on others when they really dont have an opinion, and wonders if they would get pissed off if we did the same to them under the same circumstances
///slashys are good

I saw Pantera at Ozzfest in 2000. They kicked ass. I didn't get to meet any of them, but I wish I had. People who've met Dimebag said he was just a cool guy to hang with.

I was at work when I found out he was murdered.


I almost couldn't breathe. He has always been one of my favorite musical artists.


I'm at a loss to describe what I feel.


RIP...you effected all that heard your art.

I was shocked, and crushed. Darrell was one of those cool cats
I'd run across now and again in Dallas over the years. He was
always Darrell, even after they got famous.

I remember one of those nights, we were sitting around talking after
the show...everybody was pretty wasted...and it finally dawned on
Darrell that "hey man, I think they went off and left me." Heh,
sure enough they had. We were like "we got ya man" and began
pouring him into the car. Right before we were gonna leave, the
rest of the guys showed up--they had just realized he wasn't there,
and they turned back around to come get him..but not before we
had burned down one or two. We always laughed about that one.

Same club, different night: the PA breaks down and the natives
are restless. Darrell gets up there and plugs in and starts playing
every Randy Rhoads lick you could possibly imagine. Everybody
goes apeshiat. A nice tribute and demonstration of virtuosity.

Last summer was the last time I talked to him. It still makes
me sad to think I won't randomly see him around Dallas anymore.
It's hard to believe it's been a year, and this still affects
me greatly. RIP man, you were one of the good ones.

Still nursing the hang over from one of the nights I watched Pantera on drink and drown night at the Hard Roxx in Lawton OK in 1987...

/$5 all you can drink 9 to midnight

Have you seen the size of his head? How could anyone not shoot him?

/one ticket please.

oh and fark all you haters. Seriously. Who will give a shiat when you're dead?

geez.

Although, he would have found your comments funny.
He was pretty laid back like that.

"Excuse me, I have a pink beard."

I was relaxing at my old apartment, playing with some music software and getting ready for work the next day. My roommate was on the phone with a friend who said Dimebag had been shot. I didn't believe it for most of the night, but it really hit me when I saw it all over Blabbermouth the next day. I can't believe it was a year ago either; sad day for music, the guy was a living legend. RIP, Dime.

Saw Pantera a few years ago with Morbid Angel and Nothingface in Towson, MD. They freakin rocked.

RIP Dime.

One word:

"3!"

Christ, I was a senior in high school. I remeber that moring for some odd reason, maybe it was because of the fact that I a paper due or something. I turned on the local fox station and look at the crawling news and all I saw was that people were shot in a night club. I was hoping that it was some random rapper, thinking that it was some random good person who was the world a less blingless place. But when the news at seven told me that it was dime, it shocked the crap out of me. I was never into the whole metal scene and was never into power metal, but I have the respect for any one who has the guts to get up on stage and put on a show.

I guess that we'll hear stories from now on that his gravesite is being visited by fans who pour beer all over it and leave picks and full guitars at the site.

Got home that night and saw them talking it up on the news. First thought was "Who?" Second thought was "I just drove by that place just a couple hours ago." I think I'll go by there today and see if there's any groupies standing out in the cold.

FYI: The day after, someone painted RIP Dimebag on the front of the building but it's been painted over now.

I grew out of Pantera's music but his solos remain strong. RIP dude.

Yeah, same thing here.....Can't believe it's been a year already. Cripes...time goes too fast and I'm getting too old...

I was on Fark, learning a hell of a lot about Dimebag. I had seen Pantera open up for Sabbath, but never really paid attention.

FAVE BAND, and FAVE GUITARIST.

Nobody shredded it like Dimebag - he was the best metal guitar player I have ever heard.

RIP DIME!!

/Your trust is in whiskey and weed and Slayer, it's goddamned Electric!

2005-12-08 08:25:43 AM Intricately_Detailed

Why do people waste time and energy by posting 'I don't give a toss' in threads? I really don't understand the point. If you don't give a toss, don't post in the thread.

It's really quite simple. There are a lot of pricks on Fark who get a woody if they think they might piss a total stranger off.

That's really all there is to it. People are pricks.

I was in Prague, at the InterContinental Hotel. I don't know much of Pantera but for whatever reason I still remember being really stricken by it. Part of it was that it was so mind boggling that a musician would be murdered onstage in front of his fans.

I totally respected Dimebags playing. He was obviously gifted. Too bad he had to go like he did.

And BTW, I love how all the losers just come out of the woodwork on threads like this just so they can post the "who cares?" messages. You don't see the music lovers hanging out on the Star Trek threads so we can post "who cares"? I guess it shows the level of maturity when you're still living with your parents at age 32. Just a thought...

I was at work that night, listening to the Blitz, when I heard he had been shot at the AlaRosa, a club I'd been to multiple times. the DJ just sounded completely defeated. they brought on another DJ who was actually playing that night with damageplan and the guy seemed totally vacant. there was simply nobody there. hard stuff.

The thing the "who cares" people in here are missing is that Dime had a HUGE HEART. If you have ever seen him interviewed, he was just the nicest guy. Always took time to hang and drink with fans, just the coolest kind of guy you would love to have a beer with and shoot the shiat about life.

That is why everyone who likes him feels his death like it was a personal friend.

woodpecker from mars

/insert rant about people who go into threads that are the subject of things they don't care about just to tell people they don't care about it. Douchebags.

I couldn't have put it any better.

/RIP Dime

I was driving to work the next morning when I heard it on the radio.

For all those douches who feel it necessary to come in and troll up the thread, show some respect and go away. I suppose you don't know what it's like to have someone who is important to you and had a huge impact on your life die. I hope you never do, but hey, it's going to happen and the last thing you're going to want is someone to come up to you when they die and say, "So? Who cares?"

Well guess what. I care. If that makes me uncool, then I guess I'm not cool. Dime was metal ledgend and his music helped shape the person I am today. Please don't display that you have the emotional capacity of a gnat and attempt to piss all over a memorial thread to someone who was both an incredible guitarist and an incredible human being.

To my Pantera bretheren, I will be picking up some Crown and Coke on my way home. When I get there, I will be raising my glass to all of you and to his memory as I smile with a Black Tooth Grin.

Sittin here in Arlington Tx- about to head to the gravesite to pur some whiskey on his grave.. RIP Dime

Was at work.

Still broken up about it.

RIP Dime

You know, people get shot every day. When its somebody famous (more so in some circles than others) it does make you take note. Knowing who somebody is isn't the same as knowing them, but it is an extra level of familiarity from the average person. I have a hard time putting my reaction into words.

I'm not a big metal guy by any means. I did know who he was. I just remember I was channel surfing and passed it on Fox News. Did it make me sad? A little I guess. I know all of one Pantera tune, but I still felt bad for the loss of a life that had a connection to so many others, however tenuous the connection was. I guess sometimes it takes somebody that you've at least heard OF to make you realize that when a murder happens, it's not just some fictional character. I know that, personally, when I head about some random person being killed it almost never registers, which is probably not right. However, when it's somebody that I even know a little about it at least moves the needle a bit.

Know what I mean?

I was on XXXX chatting with some other TFers when kre8iv_gal typed "Oh shiat!" and relayed what she was hearing on the Dallas radio to me thru the #xxxx chat room. I then went scrambling on the net to find out what I could.

Every single one of you people who came to this thread to just to contribute immature attacks all have my pity. It must suck to be you...I have a feeling when you pitiful people drop dead you wont even get a little blurb in the obituary section in your local newspaper. Let alone millions of fans paying their respects to you a year after you died.

HAILZ!! to Dimebag you were a great influence to me. I know your spirit carries on!

dimebag >>>>>>>> whocares police

Yeah... several of the people saying "Hey, just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have the right to trash the people that do" are the same ones that go into any rap thread and sh*t talk not only the entire genre, but call into question the worth of the people that listen to it. Hopefully something like this can make some of you appreciate that one's taste in music is not necessarily indicative of his or her character.

Anyway, I enjoy some metal and have several friends that listen to metal primarily, so I've listened to a few Pantera and DamagePlan songs. I can't say that they particularly stood out to my relatively non-distinguishing ear as far as metal goes, but I didn't think they were bad (Usually bad metal will be more offensive to me than bad music of other genres).

Lastly, I seem to lack whatever part of the brain people usually have in order to grieve over stuff. I barely got choked up when family members have passed away, so people getting all emotional over the deaths of people they don't even know seems completely alien to me. It seems like such a waste of energy to be that distressed over people that ultimately have no relevance as to how you live your life. They entertained you. That's all. Them dying doesn't take away from your having been entertained in the past, so why is it a bigger deal than Johnny Regular-Guy dying in a car accident or something?

I'll understand if you dont know who this is..


..but if you dont know who Dimebag is..
..or think hes just another pothead guitarist..then you're pretty much useless.
Bad year for metal guitar. :(

RIP DIMEBAG and PIGGY

This is useless I know but...

It's just amazing that an extremely influential guitarist gets murdered and most people here are taking they're chance to show just how 'human' they can be. I think this thread was put up here so that people who liked and respected the guy can have an oppurtunity to share memories of the event. Instead, it seems to have been taken over by several jerks who feel as though they should point just how unimportant this is to them. Really guys come on, isn't it easier to just keep your mouth shut and not post anything instead of trying to purposely antagonize those here who want to show some respect for a dead legend?

/now I'll stand back as these folks accuse me of being to sensitive

RIP Dime

For those of you that don't understand--think about if Enya,Tori Amos, or Ani DiFranco died. You would probally write a poem on your blog that no one reads and cry in your parents basement. You might even start a post on fark--but we are not going to crap all over it. We would expect the same from you...

It's very rare that I can look at posts on a thread and KNOW they're wrong (pay attention, Billy The Kidd). If you actually READ the link, you'll see that Dime left a lasting, positive impression on almost every single person he ever met. I've never touched drugs in my life, but I try not to be judgmental over such things -- Obviously pot didn't have a negative effect on Dime's life -- He was internationally renowned, a highly proficient guitarist, well loved by fans, family, and his long-time girlfriend Rita, and on top of it all was a stand-up human bein.g

----
... 12/08/05 marks one year since the death of Dimebag Darrell Abbot, of Pantera and Damageplan fame. A lot has been said about his music, and it's influence, but honestly that's not why we should mourn today. I never had the privilege of meeting Dime, but soon after his death stories attesting to his true strength of character and compassion came flying from every direction. From the story of a father who was in a guitar store with his son, and putting a guitar on layaway since he couldn't afford it, who was approached by Dime who paid for the whole thing on the spot, to stories of Sebastian Bach waking to find Dime (his houseguest at the time) up and awake, and teaching his young son a few guitar tricks, to my good buddy Jay's story of Dime's humility and kindness when they met in person.

Celebrate Dime's life, and celebrate his music, but mourning the passage of Darrell Abbot as just a musician is an absolute injustice to the truly compassionate person he was. There's far too many jackasses in the Metal community (and even in the Pantera community) who live life being selfish, rude, and ignorant. Dime's legacy should be one of his character.

Rest in Peace, and Gitcha' Pull!

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- R

McRich: No offense but F dimebag, this is John's day

You better hope i never find out who you are, if you like chewing solid food. I can actually say i knew Dime, he was the single nicest person i have ever met in my life. We would go out drinking with 20 people and Dime would say everybody's drinks are on me... all night long. John Lennon was a stupid hippie that made the stupid hippie musician mistake of mixing politics and music.
/took the day off work to get drunk for you Dime
//kicking back black tooth grins
///burn it up

I read it on fark the next day, I believe. I remember hearing something on the radio about a couple of people getting shot in a nightclub somewhere a year ago tonight.

RIP Dimebag.

/listening to Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks

I was at work, thankful that I'd decided not to skip work and go to the show that night.

scary.