Damageplan Tragedy?

[RGWhat316]

I don't know for sure what is going on, but I've heard that there was a shooting at a Columbus, OH nightclub where Damageplan was playing. There are conflicting reports saying who was shot. Some say 2 of the members of Damageplan were shot and killed. I don't know the story. Anybody else heard anything?

[asphyXy]

Here are some sources:

http://www.theomahachannel.com/news/3983737/detail.html

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/3983630/detail.html

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20041208-2036-nightclubshooting.html

Someone who was there: http://64.247.23.87/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5550

I'm not going to believe anything yet.

[asphyXy]

FUCK

http://cf.nbc4i.com/col/sh/videoplayer/video.cfm?id=3983791&owner=col

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

[Listens to "The Art of Shredding"]

R.I.P. Dimebag. Pantera will live forever.

[RGWhat316]

I just heard about it on the radio station WRIF here in the Detroit area. The DJ didn't sound too optimistic. But he hasn't heard all of the facts yet.

[RGWhat316]

Now WRIF just played a newsclip from the NBC station, and it was not good news. This is unfortunate news. R.I.P. to all who were hurt/killed except for the shooter. :(

[Silent]

Holy fucking shit. This is crazy. What an awful thing to happen to a legendary musician.

RIP to all who were killed.

[KayfabeMan]

Not a big Pantera fan, but I like senseless violence even less.

Things like this are completely ridiculous. RIP.

[asphyXy]

Listening to the entire Cowboys From Hell album right now.

[JJ Moore]

jesus christ :( this is fuckign disgusting, my fucking god.

[Jason Cage]

I feel sick to my fucking stomach.

[El Capitano Gatisto]

I blame rap music for this.

[VonErich Lives]

So, your upset that Pantera broke up (for now) so you kill a member which assures they will never get back together... :roll:

[Ninti the Mad]

Thats pathetic.

[HankScorpio]

R.I.P. What a waste of talent.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

God, that's awful.

R.I.P to all killed.

[Danny Electric]

R.I.P to all who were killed.

[PorkSoda]

:mad: This fucking sucks. I hope that gunman goes to hell and Satan rips off his balls and shoves them down his throut, then regenerates him new ones so he can do the process over and over for all eternity. This fucking sucks, it really does. I don’t know what to actually say right now except that the guy was a fucking fuckering fuckatash. :mad: :mad: :rant: This fucking sucks

Why does the guy go on a shooting spree at a Damgeplan concert? Go to a fucking Britanny Spears or something and shoot her or something The female pop stars never get shot at a concert. :foc:

[The Mask]

That's probably because female popstars have quite a lot of security. i can't imagine a club with 250 people in would.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Jesus fucking Christ :|

Pantera was one of my all time favourite bands, if not *the* all time favourite.

I'm absolutely speechless.

I just hope Anselmo thinks before he says anything on this, if he says anything at all.

RIP Dimebag, you fucking legend.

[ct2k]

This is fucking awful:n:

I'm just in complete shock. Pantera were my favourite band for a long time, and Dimebag one of my favourite guitarists. It's a huge loss for the metal community:(

[road doggy dogg]

I wasn't a huge Pantera fan, but I liked some of their songs. Regardless though, that is jsut fucking... wow. Un-fucking-believable. Heard about it last night. Ridiculous. RIP, that is such a shame.

[asphyXy]

A blurry black-and-white photograph of DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott's alleged killer, Nathan Gale, has been posted online.

<img src="http://images.ibsys.com/2004/1209/3984911_200X150.jpg">

Investigators in Columbus, Ohio say Gale, 25, had a hostage in a headlock when he was shot by a police officer. Police won't identify the hostage.

Dimebag's death shook the heavy metal music industry as colleagues reeled from the news and fans flooded web sites to share their grief.

PANTERA's manager Kim Zide-Davis, who worked with Abbott 1994 to 2003, was overwhelmed by the news of his death, according to CNN. She told the AP she often told the guitarist he was "a living cartoon character."

"He would do things that you wouldn't believe a real person was capable of," she said.

She said there was a sweet and caring side of Abbott that many people never saw.

"Everything you saw from him was real. That was who he was," she said. "He lived and unfortunately died by his guitar. What you saw on stage was his enjoyment."

[RGWhat316]

This is still just unbelievable. I've heard reports that the guy just went up to Dimebag and yelled that he broke up Pantera and just started shooting. I even heard that the guy had Vinnie Paul as his hostage, but wasn't killed.

Damn, bands break up from time to time, but this is absolutely uncalled for. There may have even been a reunion from Pantera, but no longer. Even though I didn't plan on going, Damageplan was supposed to be coming to Flint tonight. Pantera was awesome, Damageplan was great. R.I.P.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Jesus, I don't know what to say. Pantera were the first metal band I ever listened too and I never got the chance to see them live... and never will, now.

R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell

[JJ Moore]

I was lucky enough to see damageplan this year at the download festival in the UK, they took slayers place on the mainstage, fate possibly, but to hear the master at work aswell as them play "walk" was the highlight of the day.

[asphyXy]

My band is going to be covering "Cemetary Gates".

[VonErich Lives]

:mad: This fucking sucks. I hope that gunman goes to hell and Satan rips off his balls and shoves them down his throut, then regenerates him new ones so he can do the process over and over for all eternity. This fucking sucks, it really does. I don’t know what to actually say right now except that the guy was a fucking fuckering fuckatash. :mad: :mad: :rant: This fucking sucks

Why does the guy go on a shooting spree at a Damgeplan concert? Go to a fucking Britanny Spears or something and shoot her or something The female pop stars never get shot at a concert. :foc:

1) He went there because he was pissed about Pantera breaking up.

2) You're a fucking idiot, no one should go on a shooting spree at any concert.


as for Vinnie Paul, there were reports this morning that a 2nd bandmember was dead and it was belived to be him, but there was also eye-witnesses who said Paul's stage hand (roadie) jumped in front of paul and got shot twice protecting him. I haven't had the radio on, so haven't heard anything new tonight.

I did also hear the cop did a great job, someone called 911, the cop was there in 2mins and from point he entered the building (from the back) to point where he shot the shooter who had a hostage less the 60seconds.

Everytime someone pisses on police, I see stuff like this and realises again, how underpaid and apreciated cops are.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

09 Dec 2004 Here's a statement Metal Hammer writer Brink O'Neill (who is based in Columbus, Ohio where the Damageplan club massacre took place) sent to this evening (UK time).

"I didn't go to the concert. Ministry was in town so I went to that show instead. I found out about what happened when I got a call from a publicist in Los Angeles asking me if I was okay.

"I went out to Alrosa Villa. Spoke to a few witnesses. One who works for the club and did lights this evening, one fan who was right at the front of the stage when it happened and his wife, who was on the Patio where the guy crashed the fence. Before he made his way onto the stage.

"From what everyone has said, this was essentially an assassination. Yes, others were killed, but the guy made a bee-line right for Dimebag, held the gun right to his head and squeezed off three rounds. The witnesses I spoke to said that nothing was said, that the time between him getting onstage and pulling the trigger was too short, or that the music was so loud you couldn't hear anything anyway. The gunman had one thing in mind. Nobody knows for what reasons as of yet, and maybe we will never know. (This won't stop suspicious minds from speculating, naturally.)

"The police spokesperson said that an officer happened to be right around the corner from the club so he got to the club only about two minutes after the shooting started. From what I heard, the guy had emptied one clip, had loaded another and just started to shoot into the crowd. He also supposedly took a male hostage. The stand off didn't last long: The cop took out the suspect with a shotgun blast to the head.

"Dimebag is dead and probably never knew what hit him. Early news reports said another band member died in the shooting. I don't know what other member is dead but rumour had it was the bassist. Vinnie Paul is alive and shaken. Among the rest of the dead are a club employee named Aaron, supposedly, a local loader. And the shooter.

"I spoke to the owner of the club. He was incredibly shaken and didn't know what was going to happen. I felt really bad - I wanted to get a quote for the story I have to write but Rick is a good guy and a friend and I didn't want to ambush him mere hours after this tragedy. I hope I can speak with him on the record this afternoon.

"I will repeat that he said that the actions taken by his bouncers was heroic and saved lives. Given how many shots this guy took (no less than 15 according to one person I spoke with) and how many people were within spitting distance of him (the venue was not sold out but was filled nicely - probably 500 or so people according to estimates I heard) this one could have easily been a lot worse.

"I also made some calls to Phil Anselmo's people to get a reaction. Thus far, no official release, but a spokesperson said he was "devastated."

"For the record (for those who don't know about Columbus) Alrosa has been here for a few decades. It still has the feel of the old New Jersey metal emporiums - and it booked a lot of the bands, then and now. However, bands such as Guided By Voices have graced the stage there. Shows in limbo include Satyricon and Hatebreed.

"The owner Rick "The Rock And Roll Reverend" Cautella is an character. He always did his own commercials on the local radio station complete with loud sound effects. He seemed to enjoy the attention that came from this. He always made sure I got into the room and when I reviewed a show for him, he's sport me a beer or two.

"I'm rambling a bit with this stream-of-consciousness. All I know is that if I had an assignment to review this show - or even if Ministry wasn't in town this evening - I would have been at that show. It's hard to separate me as a writer trying to get as much information as possible for my story (stories, actually, since another of my outlets will probably ask me to supply something) and me as the guy who went to that place fairly often and knew a lot of the people there.

"I don't know what will happen. I kind of feel like those folks in Rhode Island felt except even though so many more people died there, that was an accident caused by unfortunate negligence. This was completely intentional, an assassination as sure as I'm typing this, and that's just surreal to contemplate."

[Azriel]

Even though I wasn't a fan of Pantera, I'm fully aware of the impact the band made, and it's a tragedy that this had to happen. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

[BCWWF]

Fuck, my friend just told me about this. Thats so horrible. RIP

[BigDaddyCool]

This is horrible, I've been listening to pantera all day now.

[KleptoKlown]

damn...

maybe take solace in the fact that he may have not ever seen it comming, and his last moment of life he was doing probably what he wanted to be doing..

[The Mackem]

Guns at a concert? WTF? I'm sure concerts like this will have tighter security or something now which will probably increase the price in tickets.

R.I.P. I'm not going to lie and say I know who he was but it's sad to see somebody shot over possibly a stupid reason

[The Forgotten One]

Man that sucks, and it was 24 years to the day John Lennon was killed. Fucked up ain't it.

[mitchables]

That's terrible. RIP to all who were killed.

Just out of (ignorant) curiosity, it says in that article Kirk posted that the club employee was a local loader. What exactly is a loader? :$

[Blitz]

Man that sucks, and it was 24 years to the day John Lennon was killed. Fucked up ain't it.

RIP to one of the great metal guitarists. But how's this for another strange coincidence: Just picked up the new Revolver mag, where Vinnie Paul writes a Q and A column. First Question:What wold be your least favourite way to die? If you had to choose the way to die, what would you pick?

[Eunos]

This fucking sucks majorly :(

One of my fave bands of all time.

Rip Dimebag.

[The Destroyer]

Turns out the 4th victim was one of the band's security guys. Their tour manager is also in a serious condition, and their drum tech was also wounded. :-\

[Sin Harvest]

Absolutely devastating, can't believe this has happened, Dimebag was my idol, my hero, I can't believe he has been taken away from us. R.I.P. brother and all those that were killed.

[Zelda]

That's terrible.

[ericbisch]

i just wanna say one thing i wished the police didnt shoot the killer so he could have been sent to a maximum secruity prison where he would have suffered a very long and tourteous death which IMO should have happened 2 him. OH well that fucker who shit Dimebag is dead and thats all that matter's. R.I.P Dimebag may God rest your soul

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Oh my God no. :( :( :(

R.I.P Dimebag as well as everyone else killed :wavesad:

As for the killer.....here's to hoping he suffers a life prison sentence and is raped many times over by large, creepy convicts.</font> :foc:

[Dragon]

The killer is dead.

[The Outlaw]

:( I used to be a huge Pantera mark

RIP :(

[What Would Kevin Do?]

RIP :(

What a fucking senseless tragedy.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

I wonder, if we looked through old threads, how many of you that are crying now have made jokes about rappers getting shot.

[KleptoKlown]

I wonder, if we looked through old threads, how many of you that are crying now have made jokes about rappers getting shot.


Im willing to bet you wont find anyone...

[Tornado]

I read all about this in a magazine at work today. Pretty fucked up.
Although I was never a fan of Damageplan, my thoughts go out to the rest of the band and the guys family. The killer got what he deserved.

[PorkSoda]

Nathan Gale is the killers name? Wow he looks like hes sucking on a dick or something in that pic. He looks fucking bloated.

Saw the video for Mouth for War the other day. Fucking great. :mad:

[blake639raw]

I just heard about this a few days ago. I didn't want to believe it. I got on the net, and unfortunately, it is true. I don't know what to say. Dimebag is one of the greatest metal guitarists to ever play. Pantera has been my fav. band for as long as i can remember. Everything has already been said probably, but RIP Dimebag, at least you left a legacy for future generations to remember you by.

[The Answer]

I blame rap music for this.

That's pretty hypocritical.Especially considering it seems that the gunmen went after him possibly because of the Pantera break up.Does he look like a rap fan? Looks like a hillbilly to me and Bubba Sparxx wasn't in the building.I listen to rap music all the time but it doesn't make me want to go out and shoot people.

[The Answer]

I was lucky enough to see damageplan this year at the download festival in the UK, they took slayers place on the mainstage, fate possibly, but to hear the master at work aswell as them play "walk" was the highlight of the day.

I wonder if RVD ever met Pantera?I mean he had to be a fan he had that walk theme for year's in ECW and would have changed it if he did not.He is probably pretty upset

[Ogen]

That's pretty hypocritical.Especially considering it seems that the gunmen went after him possibly because of the Pantera break up.Does he look like a rap fan? Looks like a hillbilly to me and Bubba Sparxx wasn't in the building.I listen to rap music all the time but it doesn't make me want to go out and shoot people.
I can't tell if you're serious, I'm hoping you're not to be honest but I just can't tell.

[The Answer]

I can't tell if you're serious, I'm hoping you're not to be honest but I just can't tell.

I wasn't serious about the whole "does he look like a rap fan thing".But I am really serious about listening to the music and commiting murders and how rap music could be blamed for this crime.Especially considering the gunmen seemed to be a disgruntled Pantera fan looking for revenge