Haven't we heard this line before? I wonder in Neil Young is enjoying the irony here?
Ok sorry- I have a dark sense of humor and at times I need to use humor to help myself cope with this strange world that we live in.
As I was driving into work this morning I hear on the radio (94.7 The Zone- Chicago's Hard-Rock Station) that a shooting took place at a "heavy-metal concert last night".
After I got on the internet and did some snooping I find that one of the four people that was killed was "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott- the guitarist from Damageplan and Pantera.
He would have been in Chicago tomorrow with Damageplan to play a FREE show called The NutCracker, along with his brother Vinnie Paul. I have heard conflicting reports about Vinnie- I am not sure if he was also shot or not.
Vinnie Paul did an interview yesterday morning with The Zone and that interview was played on their station this morning, he sounded so excited about playing in Chicago tomorrow, and he was talking about how much he loved to play and tour and, to drink!
How can I not like a guy like this?
How can I not like a band like this?
Two brothers from Texas who just want to rawk- and rawk they most certainly did!
I realize that Damageplan and Pantera have absolutely nothing to do with Polka music but remember the title of this blog includes the word "Extreme" and Dimebag and Vinnie were nothing at all if not Extreme.
It's a shame that he was pumped full of lead last night. The only good thing about all of this is that the shooter was also pumped full of lead by a Columbus Ohio policeman.
So if there are any Pantera fans or Damageplan fans out there reading this- my heart goes out to you, as to the families of the other people who were murdered last night.
It was exactly 24 years ago that John Lennon was gunned down in New York outside of his apartment. While I doubt that this has any bearing on Dimebag's death- is highly ironic.
Thursday, December 9, 2004 Posted: 9:47 AM EST (1447 GMT)
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, police said.
One of the dead was guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, 38, of the band Damageplan. The gunman also wounded two people.
Columbus police identified the suspect as Nathan Gale, 25, of nearby Marysville but said they had no information about a motive or possible connection to the band.
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 unclear what happened to the hostage.
The attack came shortly after 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 hurt and treated at the scene, although the nature of their injuries was not clear.
The gunman initially shot the band's guitarist, Abbott, witnesses said.
He and his brother, Vinnie Paul Abbott, 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, authorities said.
"If not for the officer who showed up, there would have been more dead," Mull said.
At least one of those killed -- Nathan Bray -- was an audience member. Mull identified another deceased victim as Erin Halk, although it was unclear if he was attending the concert or an employee.
"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 Abbott] 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."
CNN's Steve Brusk contributed to this report.
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